Lessons in Currawong

I look up from my boots and my eyes widen. Overnight it seems like someone’s set off a golden-bomb – all along the creek bank the silver wattles are in glorious bloom.
Slow rise

Years later, unaware of the history that came before him, Alex Iordanov found himself working in the kitchen of the CERES Grocery Cafe and dreaming about starting a little bakery in the Grocery kitchen.
Growth rings

Like Baltic pine there are lots of other native timbers we use every day but don’t talk about – Merbau from South East Asian rain forests, Cumaru from South American jungles, even our own old growth Mountain Ash.
Full circle

Late Wednesday night a text comes through from CERES farm manager, Meg Stewart, there’s a fire at CERES. Another follows with a photo taken from Blythe Street showing an ominous glow through the trees.
And we wait

Like we all know so well, the wait for covid test results can feel like an age. And support is everything. But last week we REALLY knew that truth afresh.
Message in a box

There’s some excellent lockdown love going around in the form of decorated Fair Food boxes, and we love it!