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.
Wood Savings
The storm that tore through Victoria a week and a half ago brought down so many mature trees that Hayden Cronin, Fair Wood’s manager, has been inundated by emails asking for help – including one from a landholder in Newbury who had lost more than 100 trees.
Social Enterprising
On July 1st, eleven years ago at our old warehouse in Beavers Road Northcote, Fair Food received its very first order.
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.
