5 Day a Week Home Delivery begins / Aquaponics farm for sale
This week as we roll out 5 day a week home delivery Jesse Hull, Fair Food’s logistics manager, will have be busy organising vans and trucks to head out across Melbourne with grocery orders on board (that’s Jesse above with fair trade coffee and tea supplier, Fiona from Tradewinds). Five Day Home Delivery is the second of two […]
Home on the free range / Monday to Friday deliveries quite the hit
You might have been hearing a whole lot of upset generated by the Federal Government’s new 10,000 hens per hectare free range definition. The battle over what constitutes free range was effectively won by large egg producers more focussed on the maximum amount of chickens they could squeeze into a given space as opposed to the adequate amount of space needed to be given to […]
Chestnut & pumpkin soup / Chestnuts & cool season jazz
Whenever I think chestnuts up drifts Moonlight in Vermont. Frank Sinatra sang it on Come Fly With Me, although everybody from Ray Charles to Nana Mouskouri have done their own version. The funny thing about Moonlight in Vermont is, apart from the fact that it contains no rhymes and all the verses are haiku’s, there is no […]
A sebago anniversary / The onion situation
A sebago anniversary We’ve been talking about new farmers a lot lately but this week I want celebrate one of the old guard, Joe Sgro from Foothill Organics in Colac. This year it’s 15 years since we started buying produce off Joe for CERES Market. That’s Joe on the right at his farm stand at the old […]
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts / Fair Food Job Closing
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts Last week in a return-of-the-light antidote to mid-winter, post-election, extinction crisis despair I wrote about the first Murnong planting at Joe’s Garden, the CERES staff solstice bonfire and NUCA’s (Neighbours United for Climate Action) first meeting. I also wrote about an eight season calendar that I’d fallen in love with which I couldn’t quite fit in….until […]
Sand Talk
Sand Talk makes me rethink the big things; work, spirituality, sending our kids to school, the nature of cities, my ongoing war with the blackberry down in the bottom paddock…
