SUSTENANCE FOR CHANGE
On Thursday 4th December 2014, The Grain Store and CERES Fair Food will host a dinner in support of the work of theAsylum Seeker Resource Centre. Like our last two Full Moon dinners at The Grain Store executive chef, Ingo Meissner, will prepare a special meal featuring an abundance of locally grown, fresh produce set […]
Thanks
351 of you have given $29,030 to rewire the food system – it’s wonderful, it’s heart-lifting to belong to this group of people who believe in something and then back it. On behalf of everybody who benefits from this project – our farmers, Fair Food’s workers, our Food Hosts, our customers present and future and all the students who come to learn […]
Born a free ranging man. Boring solution, such a lot of joy.
How’s this for an office? This is a picture of Dan Green’s egg farm in Lower Carrajung, South Gippsland. You may know Dan through his eggs, which he calls, Dan’s Real Free Range Eggs . I’m telling Dan’s story because I saw in the news this week a story about a free range egg farm being fined $300,000 for not […]
Caring for your food host: a guide. Clifroy Community Bank does something truly special.
Fair Food has 67 Food Hosts across Melbourne Food. It’s really quite a strange concept when you think about it; somebody sharing a space at their homes for others (read complete strangers – at first anyway) to pick up their shopping from. Food Hosts make our strange but effective food distribution system work, without them […]
A software barn-raising. Consider the loquat.
When Fair Food first started I thought that all anybody could want was a mixed fruit and veg box and the only question could be whether it was small, medium or large. I mean I liked shopping this way, why wouldn’t everybody else? I have been learning ever since and Fair Food has been changing how […]
The supermarket and the supplier. The man who honey-coated Melbourne.
Recently I was talking to the rep of a grocery maker about her experience selling products to Coles (I won’t name her for obvious reasons). Anyway she was telling me that if Coles decided they’d stop selling one of her products she’d be charged about $15,000 to delete the line. “You get charged to stop selling an item?” I […]
