An ode to Asparagus by Ruth Friedlander
Asparagus is one of my all time top 5 favorite vegetables (in case you’re wondering the others are, in no particular order, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and eggplant, and they’ll all hopefully get their own blog post sooner or later). There’s nothing quite like the first few bunches of spindly asparagus spears appearing at the markets […]
Hold on, summer fruit’s a coming!!
I was walking home from the shop the other day and I was really excited to spy the first ripe loquats on a tree hanging over a front fence. I grabbed a few and shared them with my son who got through a half a one before he used it for target practice on an […]
Sad truth about sow stalls by Doron Francis
Recently I was chatting to a bunch of seemingly well informed people about Food Inc the movie. One of the comments made was that the film was about industrial agricultural in the USA, so wasn’t ‘relevant’ to Australians. It’s interesting to see how very little we actually know about where our food comes from, how […]
Shedding some light on food prices by Doron Francis
Food prices have been going up for some time now. According to OECD data Australia has the highest food price inflation in the western world and for the first time, Australia is now importing more fruit and veg than it exports. The reasons for this are many: global demand has pushed up prices as populations […]
Carrotmob
I’ve been keeping an eye of Carrotmob for a while. For those of you who don’t know. “Carrotmob is a type of consumer activism in which businesses compete over how socially responsible they can be. A network of consumers then spend money to support whichever business makes the strongest offer. We harness consumer power to […]
Meet Your Farmer by Fiona Wyborn
Along the Merri creek bike path, less then 10kms from the city center you will stumble across an urban jewel, a 150-year-old productive market garden. A market garden is a place where fruit and vegetables are grown to sell to the local community. The Merri Creek Market Garden was once farmed by a local Italian, […]
