The magic of social mycelium / Farmer Christmas at Joe’s
The magic of social mycelium This is our last full week of deliveries for 2018 (yes, we’re delivering on Christmas Eve Monday). As we wind up for the year and take our usual two week break (our first 2019 delivery is on Monday January 7th) I want to share with you a little of […]
Tearing off the tofu bonnet / Dream job on the tools at CERES
Tearing off the tofu bonnet For a long time being a vegetarian or vegan was akin to being of part a dystopian underclass – members were cruelly forced to wear tofu bonnets and left to survive on green salads and side menu items. Family barbecue rituals could be especially savage; open mocking of poorly manufactured […]
Between convenience and connection
Between convenience and connection Yesterday morning at a small café off Sydney Road I shared a plate of fried dumplings with my eight year old son. The café was empty apart from a solitary diner across the room sipping her wonton soup . As we ate our food we curiously watched a stream of […]
Mathees’ 10 year homecoming / Footy ends, asparagus begins
Mathees’ ten year homecoming It’s been a big year for Matheeswaran Subramaniam, fondly known as Mathees at the Fair Food warehouse (that’s Mathees on the right moving our warehouse). In the year he bought his first home in Australia he’s also been able to go back to his Sri Lankan home. And right now as you read this, for the first time […]
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 […]
Reconciliating
On a crisp autumn morning a few weeks ago Wurundjeri elder, Uncle Ringo Terrick, came to the Fair Food warehouse to conduct a Welcome to Country ceremony.
