Freakish extreme meme-ism. New Food Hosts
This week I talked to Fair Food’s grape grower, Peter Kamvissis, from Merbein up near Mildura about the freak tornado and hail storm that came through last Friday night. Peter says it was like something out of a movie with trees coming down, grape vines all over the place and so many sheets of tin […]
Cometh the spring, cometh the spear. Job going at Fair Food.
The almond trees are in blossom at Honey Lane, broad beans are in flower at Joe’s Market Garden and the loquats on the tree across the road from my house are beginning to yellow up. We have a wild-seeded loquat tree in our front yard, it’s quite large now but the ring tail possums that […]
Inner-curmudgeoning. Asian Cooking Box. Job going at Fair Food.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Bendigo to the Community Food Hubs Conference. I’ve been going to local food gatherings like this for 15 years now and as I drove up the Calder my inner-curmudgeon grizzled, “Haven’t we said it all before? Is there actually anything left to talk about?” I’m sure it’s no different in […]
What lies at the bottom of our crispers. New Asian Food Box.
The other day rummaging through the fridge looking for leftovers to take to work I come across a small tupperware container holding two lonely pieces of cooked cauliflower. Not recognising it from recent meals I hold up the container to Peta, my wife. “What’s this?” I ask. “That’s cauliflower,” she replies casually. “Cauliflower?” “Yeah, cauliflower.” “Where’d it come […]
Cinnamon – our flavour of the week. Communing with cabbage.
Some weeks the world lets you know you’re doing alright. Last Thursday it happened to our CEO Cinnamon Evans who took home the inaugural Mike Hill Environmental Sustainability Award in recognition of her 20 years of service at CERES. That nod of recognition will be reinforced a little bit more this Thursday when Cinnamon speaks at the Global Social Economy Forum aka […]
CERES learning – lots of ways to skin your cat. Asparagus 2016 season debut.
There are many ways to skin a cat – hold on, I have to digress here, because although we use this saying widely it occurs to me that there may not have actually been a time when a kind of cat skinning-economy existed where the skinning of cats was so widely practised that it generated passionate and regular comment on competing […]
