Great gut news, Noleen's heritage pumpkins imminent and a new Food Host rises
If you’ve read these emails before you might have picked up on my fascination for the human microbiome – or as wikipedia puts it “the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic micro-organisms that literally share our body space.” Excited? Not really? Well here’s something to get you on the bacterial express train to healthy bowel […]
Bulk talk: can you be your own co-op? CERES Market opens 7 Days
This week, after reading some survey feedback asking for more single person sized offerings, I was working with Josh, Fair Food’s produce buyer, on a new “one person” box we are going to offer soon. The conversation shifted from smaller sizes to our largest bulk box lots and how people could share and save money. Josh […]
Autumn almanac entry – Loquats in flower
This loquat tree (see pic above) was a volunteer seedling that popped up in my front yard about five years ago. And this week, after thinking that it might never fruit, it announced with an abundant coverage of creamy blossoms that it was indeed fecund. Some of you might remember an email from last year […]
Nuts & the long game and Tecoma tea cosy cuts through at Fish Creek festival
About eight years ago we planted a chestnut tree on our block of land in South Gippsland. This afternoon I was mowing the long grass around its base when I stopped and picked up one of the prickly cases to see how the nuts were doing this year. I wasn’t expecting much, I’d sort of […]
Pay Joe's beans forward. My cabbage awakening.
You’ll find something extra in your order this week – a little packet of local vegetable history – namely Joe’s broad beans. Picked and dried last year at the CERES Merri Creek Market Garden* these beans possess the highly desirable quality of retaining their sweetness even when they’re big and they do get big, some […]
Little things on a big day for CERES, and Farmer Steve Marsh
On Wednesday the verdict came in on the landmark case of WA organic grower, Steve Marsh, who lost his organic certification after his land was contaminated by GM canola from his neighbour, Michael Baxter’s farm. Even though it was proved that GM canola plants had come from Marsh’s neighbour, Justice Kenneth Martin determined that Baxter […]
