Bogong moth puttanesca / Job at Fair Food
Bogong moth puttanesca Last night when Antony Green revealed that the nation had collectively chosen to buy a negatively-geared townhouse in Airport West over saving the Great Barrier Reef I began imagining my family’s off-grid future. First thing next week we would sell-up, leave all those greedy people to their capital gains exemptions […]
A fuss, a bloody big fuss
A fuss, a bloody big fuss Last week CERES’ Chief Financial Officer, Nico Porter, gathered the CERES management team around a large round table to work through the coming 2019/20 budget. At the beginning of the meeting Nico handed out his budget; an enormous spreadsheet summarising the incomings and outgoings of forty different social enterprises, […]
Slower and deeper
Last week I wrote an impassioned call to action for the CERES Appeal; that in the face of our climate emergency we needed to quickly prepare ourselves, skill ourselves up and give, really give, to get something done. But that all came to a stop on Wednesday when one of our Fair Food workmates lost […]
From defenders of the fair go to…..
From defenders of the fair go to….. On Friday the Fair Food crew went for a Tamil Feast at CERES, that’s us above. We were there to share a meal and catch up with our old workmate and Tamil Feast superstar, Nirma (waving at the back). As we ate, talked and laughed I looked around our table […]
A seat at EAT’s table
A seat at EAT’s table On Friday night I went to the “EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.” launch, one of 35 world-wide. It’s fascinating reading; a three year, multi-disciplinary, game-changing study outlining strategies on how to provide 10 billion of us with a healthy diet that reduces greenhouse emissions, saves half the planet […]
Bringing the murnong back / Closed Monday, back Tuesday
Bringing the murnong back These days the Kiwis seem to be way ahead of us in pretty much all areas of human endeavour. Take reconciliation; whenever I go to see a New Zealander speak, be they brown or white, they’re forever reeling off paragraph-long Māori welcomes, breaking into traditional song or pulling off a flawless haka at the drop […]
