Watts garlic girls shine by Natalee Ward
Originally Published by Weekly Times, 8 June 2011. MADELINE Watts has turned her back on convention and now knows just where she’s headed. In 2008, Madeline Watts faced the same problem thousands of Year 12 students face at the end of the year. “I did really well at school and was under pressure to use […]
Attack of the Killer Pumpkins!
One thing that struck me when I first moved to Australia was the antipodean love for pumpkins. Avocados, mangoes, bananas all fit in with the exotic picture of Oz in my mind, but pumpkins did not. Pumpkins seemed to be in anything at anytime..slice them on pizza, put them in a salad, roast them, mash […]
Dear Fleur from Coburg,
Thanks for being one of our first and most loyal customers. Since August 2010 you have contributed a grand total of $10,000 to: a) local organic farming families 2) employing and training disadvantaged workers 3) the environment and environmental education Thank you for your support over the years and for thinking of others when you […]
7:30 Report on the Australian Organic Industry
You might have seen the 7.30 Report about Nutri-tech, a business supplying certified organic farming products, which had either: a) higher than allowed levels of benzene b) contained synthetic nitrogen, a non-organic input. The story focused on the organic industry’s ability to ensure products are actually organic. So you might ask what is done to […]
CERES Fair Food Newsletter #16
Our June/July Newsletter is out! Our Man Noel, Swap Shuffle Share, News from our farmers & more
Fresh food not-for-profit hard hit after Sunday Age report
Freelance journalist Matthew da Silva writes… Based in inner-north Melbourne’s Brunswick East, CERES is a popular not-for-profit environment education centre and public farm that hosts farmers’ markets and sells weekly fruit and vegetable boxes to locals. But after a report earlier this month by The Sunday Age on levels of lead contamination at the Centre for Education and Research […]
