Weekly Update: Asparagus Rising & Help Us Stock The Shop
If you’re like me over the past couple of weeks you may have felt the mysterious vibrations coming from Koo Wee Rup as an unstoppable subterranean army of asparagus spears erupted from the dark swampland soils seeking the warmth of the spring sunlight. Well asparagus farmer Maurie Cafra’s pickers have been harvesting and bunches of […]
Weekly Update: FDR's Grocery Buying Guide
Our weekly update is out! FDR’s Grocery Buying Guide I bought a history’s great speeches book from my son’s school book fair before the holidays. Its very short chapters suited my reading style i.e. it was perfect for contemplating while on the loo. This week I finished Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous “The Only Thing to […]
Fair Food News for Spring: Fava Festa, Farming, Feasting & More
Click here to read our Fair Food newsletter for Spring, and more about Farmer Joe and Vince’s infamous broadbeans.
Weekly Update: Imagine You're an Apple
You’ve made the journey from bud to blossom to fruit along the way dodging apple scab, canker, brown rot, codling moth, hail storms and possums. You’ve passed muster with the fruit graders, made it onto the shelves and into the shopping basket. Only, at the last hurdle… read on….
Fair Food Newsletter: Thanksgiving & The Gifts You Give
THE SOIL FOOD WEB & THE GIVING SEASON I have been thinking a lot about Christmas traditions lately. And naturally it’s got me thinking about plants and the soil food web system. Plants have an inbuilt mechanism for giving, an inherent sharing wisdom. Plants freely exude precious sugars they’ve made from photosynthesis into the soil […]
Weekly Update: What's Up With All The Good Gut Stuff?
Congratulations to everybody who has signed up to the Unglut Your Gut Challenge – there’s over 200 of you! If you’d like to sign up and give a little back to your microbiome the challenge runs for one more week. And if you’ve just got back into town here is the story again in case […]
