Upcoming field trip / Fair Wood needs a home
An upcoming field trip Kids come to Ceres and learn how to see webs of life in a bucket of water they pull from the old dam or in the handfuls of soil they dig from the market garden. They learn that the azolla, the tadpoles, the mosquito fish, the worms, the millipedes, the fungi, the vegetables and […]
Recycled Electric Kinetic Playspace Update
Recycled Electric Kinetic Playspace Update This time last year the Ceres Recycled Electric Kinetic Playspace got a guernsey in the Pick My Project competition. Inspired by a chaotically beautiful community-built playground at the St Louis Museum, the Ceres Playspace was workshopped into existence with groups of local kids – often employing giant native insects loaned from Melbourne Museum as conversation starters. […]
Another kind of sugar / Urban Farmer dream job
Another kind of sugar When I was seven years old growing up in rural New Zealand my mum flew to Brisbane to help my uncle Jeff, whose Gold Coast nursery business was going down the gurgler. In those days getting on a plane was a really big thing. We drove Mum up to Auckland airport […]
It’s very wet in Colac / Playspace Design Launch
It’s very wet in Colac On Friday night I gave Lliam, my neighbour, a lift down from Melbourne to Fish Creek. I drop him at his front door and as I turn to take my usual short cut across their hill top paddock, Em, Lliam’s wife calls out from the veranda that the field is […]
Reallocating the red carpet
Reallocating the red carpet Last Monday our own Lorna Pettifer won the equivalent of the Brownlow when she was announced as Australian Environmental Educator of the Year. And though Nat Fyfe is surely good at footy in this time of climate emergency it could be a wise move to reallocate the red carpet from the fella […]
Measure twice. Cut once.
Measure twice. Cut once. There seems to be so many opportunities to mess up a perfectly good piece of timber even before a walking-DIY-disaster like me tries to bang in a nail straight. Watching Fair Wood grow over the past year I’m slowly discovering that for such a seemingly simple material there seems […]
