Ahead of his time, again / Meet “Previously Ordered”
Ahead of his time, again. Four years ago this past week Joe Garita, our market garden mentor, passed away (that’s Joe above with his John Deere tractor). Beginning in 1945 with his father and then later with Jean, his wife, Joe farmed his two and a half acre market garden on the Merri Creek feeding his […]
Lost trades / No box left behind
Lost trades I’m in Kyneton with 16,000 others this weekend to see the Lost Trades Fair. The Labour Weekend event has become so popular they’ve capped the numbers this year. Spread around the Kyneton Racecourse on the banks of the Campaspe River is a world made by hand. People’s intimate lives with clay, wood, flax, wool, […]
Hopeful, resilient and fiercely generous / CERES Harvest Festival
Since Friday all I’ve heard about are the actions of a fearful man. I don’t to want hear about that any more. I want to hear the voices of 30,000 striking school children marching down Collins Street on Friday morning. I want to hear them calling on us to wake up and share our planet with […]
Got to be worth a try / Kids play at Joe’s Garden
Got to be worth a try I was looking at an Instagram post about the big vegetable growing competition at CERES Harvest Festival when a comment caught my attention…. “While CERES do great work in these sorts of areas, the lack of advocacy around the climate emergency is extremely disappointing. The planet won’t be […]
Fair wood for your fire / No box left behind
Fair wood for your fire On Friday Pete Smyth, Fair Wood’s manager, came back to the Fair Food warehouse with a truckload of firewood (that’s it above). After Pete unloaded the four and a half tons of firewood by hand he was heard to say, “I am very tired now.” Pete has been wanting […]
Time to do … something / CERES Winter Solstice
Time to do….something If you feel like bringing on an existential crisis this week then have a read of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service’s (IPBES) media release. The report confirms something we all know deep down – that at an ever-accelerating rate we are hunting, fishing, chopping down, burning, farming, mining, paving […]
