Glass campaign half full / A feast in time
Glass campaign half-full When I was a little kid one of my jobs after school was to put four empty milk bottles in the wire carrier and take them out to the letterbox for the milkman to swap over for full ones. Around dinner time the teenage milkboys in their Dunlop volleys and leather aprons […]
Joe’s Market Garden FarmRaiser / Green Drought
Joe’s Market Garden FarmRaiser Yesterday a group of visitors from ORI Co-op came down to visit Joe’s Market Garden and take in the Saturday Farmgate. It was a beautiful scene; a group of regular veggie shoppers were gathered around the fire bin chatting, sipping coffee, breathing in wood smoke mixed with the smell of soil […]
Meanwhile down on Hazeldean Forest Farm / Fair Wood at Darebin Pitch IT Finals
Meanwhile down on Hazeldean Forest Farm Jason Alexandra is just back from a ute-ride around the farm checking on quince, persimmons and the last few fuji and jonagold left to ripen on the trees. Jason (that’s him enveloped by fruit above) reckons there’s just one more day of picking before they say goodbye to the crew of two backpackers and four locals who […]
Feels like it could be a bit of a big year
This week on our Facebook feed you might have seen Lily D’Ambrosio, state minister for energy, environment and climate change, drop by the Fair Food warehouse to announce a Sustainability Victoria hybrid grant/loan for three projects; – building a vertical microgreens teaching farm – recycling a cool room destined for landfill from our previous warehouse […]
When fungi calls your name / Joe’s Farm Raiser / Vote 1 CERES
When fungi calls your name What kind of mushrooms do marine biologists like best? Oyster mushrooms of course! (Ouch! I’m so sorry) John Ford (that’s him in the pic) holds a PhD in Marine Biology and has spent his career reducing the environmental impact of fishing. Lately however John’s lifelong passion for fungi has been taking him […]
The bill’s arrived / Regenerative Agriculture Day
The bill’s arrived…. As the big cold front came over Western Victoria last week I called Joe Sgro, Fair Food’s largest vegetable grower, to see if the rain had reached his market garden in Colac yet. It’d starting spitting and Joe was hoping for a good drenching after all the heat. January has been brutally dry […]
