A cornucopia of digression. Thoughts/feelings?
Week two on The Stairway to Intestinal Heaven (aka the Good Gut Challenge) and going without sugar and refined carbohydrates has sent my senses to a new level of awareness – I can’t think straight yet I’ve never seen things more clearly.. Withdrawal has revealed a kind of seventh sense that instantly evaluates the sugar content of any […]
Marg and Jason's 30th Apple Anniversary. Not so sweet sugar-free.
Thirty years ago Jason and Marg (that’s them with some orchard visitors) came to live in their “green desert’ – 96 acres of dairy pasture with barely a tree (5 macrocarpas says Marg) just outside Warragul. With the early sparks of Permaculture firing their imaginations and the seed they’d strategically collected from street trees around Canberra, […]
Stairway to Intestinal Heaven. Summer Cabbage Reading Part Five
Last night my friend’s 40th birthday party marked the end of a chocolate and alcohol abundant, sleep and exercise poor summer. I’m feeling sluggish, heavier and getting out of bed for a morning ride has turned into pulling up the doona. But from this morning and for the entire month of February I am embarking on […]
Hema & The Big Salad. Unglut Week 3. More bonus Summer reading..
Hema (that’s her above) is back at Fair Food. You may remember Hema, she shared Fair Food’s customer service role with Kate. Hema came back last week after being away for 8 months on maternity leave raising her new son, Ivan. About two years ago Hema was the first person from our asylum seeker and newly arrived worker program to move […]
You helped do this. F21 Thanks. Extra Generous Cooks Box.
On Friday, at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, a couple of thousand food-curious/concerned folk attended day and night sessions of festival21 to talk about the future of food. The day was huge, filled with stories of people using food to transform themselves, their communities and their environments. With Open Table and Tamil Feasts I was part of an instant fundraising session for CERES Fair Food (that’s […]
There's coffee & there's coffee & there's coffee. Set box price rise.
Alex and I have been searching for local coffee roasters who have a strong connection to coffee growers. This week we drank a lot of coffee and talked a lot about coffee and learned a bit about the coffee trade in East Timor. Bec and Nikki from Wild Timor Coffee and Linda fromWithOneBean came to the Fair […]
