Happy lower intestine = happy life. Patronise your local Food Host.
Lately, usually to a stony faced response, I’ve been recommending fecal transplants to my friends and family for basically every physical and mental ailment they collectively suffer from. Now if you watched Gut Reaction on ABC’s Catalyst last week you’d know I’m only half joking. The bottom line (no pun intended) is that if we feed the billions […]
Vince Fitipaldi – inner city rapa. The all new One Person Box now in-webstore
Down at the CERES Merri Creek Market Garden deep in the heart of Coburg (yes, you read right Coburg!) farmer Vince Fitipaldi (that’s him above with Heidi Sanghvi, our farm volunteer co-ordinator) has been busy growing, among other things, a crop of rapa, a leafy Italian heirloom brassica that Vince’s cousin and the original farmer, […]
It's as much about the trees as the bees. There's someone you need to meet.
Daniel Saulwick and his boys, Jasper and Charlie (that’s them in the pic) delivered their Central Victorian honey to the warehouse this week. CERES has been buying Daniel’s honey for years – (we both tried to work out how many but just settled on “years”). Like a lot of producers Daniel’s not a full-time beekeeper, […]
The Grain Store – July Full Moon Dinner. Wintery Produce Unpredictability
After the first Full Moon Dinner sold-out in no time flat our friends, Ingo and Melanie at The Grain Store have been getting up their courage to put another one on (see the invite above). Ingo, originally from Switzerland, is a classically trained chef who has cooked his way around the world in the demanding kitchens of various […]
Deep Cycle Fruit & Veg
It goes like clockwork: around this time of year I get a phone call from Paul Haar to let me know his feijoas are finished for the season, a week later Ian Cuming calls to say his kiwifruit is ready to go. Paul and I say our goodbyes till next April and later when I talk to Ian for the […]
Late Easter Monday morning cut-off for Fair Food orders & You've got that feijoa feeling
This week when you’re busy coming home from an Easter away putting in a Fair Food order is often the last thing on your hot cross bun and chocolate affected mind. Sadly it’s often the time when the cupboard and fridge are at their barest. Fear not, as is our public holiday tradition, we are pushing our […]
