Vic Cardemone is a fixer. What to do with those window bags.
In the Fair Food car park a delivery truck returns from a run with its back step dangling off in an alarming angle. Andrew, the driver, gives it a few tugs and the whole thing breaks off, hitting the concrete with a clang. The call goes over to the CERES Site Team and Vic Cardemone wanders over to take a […]
News from Hollyburton Farm. Reaction to the war on milk.
I had a chat the other day with Madelaine, from where else but Madelaine’s Eggs. You might remember early last year Madelaine was crowdfunding for an egg cleaning/grading machine. Like everything she does Madelaine ran a campaign way beyond her 19 years and raised an incredible $67,986. Now almost a year later, after waiting for the […]
Lao cookstove project more than just carbon. Feeling good with Dr Chan
A few years ago while driving across the endless Nullabor Plain, Dr Miin Chan and her newly wedded husband, Niel, were sipping on some home fermented tibicos while listening to Nina Simone sing Feeling Good. Somewhere in the middle of that desert highway that young doctor, seeking an avenue to do greater good, that classic soulful song and and a […]
Australian Certified not quite Organic. Annual Survey Wrap. Crowdfunding news
So you may have been following WA farmer, Steve Marsh’s GM contamination case. Marsh(that’s him with his kelpie) is an organic wheat farmer who lost his organic certification after genetically modified canola seeds drifted onto his property during his neighbour’s harvest.The analogy that was used to argue the case is that if you spray chemicals on your farm and those chemicals damage your neighbour’s crop […]
Buontempos: Brothers in Gluten Free Arms
You wouldn’t know it from their deceptively unassuming fluoro attire but these two men are international gluten free food heroes. Max and Frank Buontempo are the brothers behind Orgran – one of the world’s gluten free food powerhouses.Today, from their amazing factory in Carrum Downs, they make and export gluten free cereals, flours, pastas, biscuits, crackers and more to 55 countries around the world. You’d think with the […]
Are you a generous cook? The recipe shift.
Okay so next Thursday we’re launching a new box. That’s a food stylist’s impression of it in the picture above. Our new box is about the size of the popular Small Mixed Fruit and Veg – so it’s good for 2 or 3 people and has those cooking essentials like garlic and ginger, herbs, your […]
