Ian Cuming – farmer at the pointy end. Got a spare warehouse?
Every year like clockwork Paul Haar calls to announce that his feijoas have finished. Pretty much the next day Ian Cuming (that’s him above) will be on the phone to talk about dropping off the first of his biodynamic kiwis Not this year though, with the endless summer everything is out of whack – feijoas […]
Crowdsaucing – 1 week to get your tomatoes. Jenny & Steve's Spanish Reds.
If you’ve been promising yourself that this is the year you’ll make passata, it is not too late, but it almost is. There’s one more week to get your tomatoes for Crowdsaucing Day and sauce it up like they do at the Fitzroy Community Food Centre (that’s them above and yes, they’re hosting a Crowdsaucing if you’d like […]
The odd shaped fruit we all love to love.
If you quite fancy a dabble in alchemy, love potions, and alternative remedies then the humble quince might be your personal fruit mascot. Long used in home remedies for throat, lung and stomach ailments, in ancient Greece it was also regarded as the fruit of love, marriage and fertility and the gift of choice for […]
Hassan and the longest, longest wait. festival 21
Today we were over at our park having a Christmas family portrait taken to be sent to the grandparents and uncles and aunties scattered around the world. Our sons went from cute to bored to completely weird as they coped with the interminable ordeal of being dressed relatively smartly,sitting in one spot for several moments and smiling. It was as mundane and everyday as could be – […]
Nathan's tomatoes now on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day.
The new Crowdsaucing website is up and the five tonnes of organic saucing tomatoes Nathan Free has been growing up at Lake Boga this summer are on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day Saturday April 30th. We’ve set the cut-off date to secure your saucing tomatoes on midnight Sunday 24th April. And with only 500 boxes […]
The cosmic cogs of Kelvin & Kumi Slade. 5 tonnes of saucers sold!
Sometimes I have the feeling our lives are governed by the orbits of giant cosmic cogs turning in enormous orbits behind the red velvet curtain of our consciousness – (whoah, think I just stumbled onto Swatch astrology). forget that, anyway a week ago I was in the warehouse standing face to face with egg farmer and […]
