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 […]
Speaking to Jason and selling plums
Speaking to Jason and selling plums These summer holidays in Perth have fostered a kind of existential hopelessness. Firstly, when I hear at beach that the sunscreen we have been so well-trained to slap onto our family’s skin is poisoning the coral reefs it creates a paralysing moral choice between melanoma and marine ecosystem destruction? Secondly, […]
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 […]
Trumping anxiety with splendid wrens, old friends and junior football
The cold and wet weather of the past three weeks haven’t been good for my horrible fascination with Donald Trump; I can’t stop watching the hateful pour out of the orange-faced school bully. I can’t quite believe what I’m seeing and hearing and can’t believe there are so many people who think and feel the same […]
