The soil is strong in this one… When Generous Cooks Share. The Complete Urban Chef
Some people fall into their vocation others just can’t help themselves. Emily Connors is of “the can’t help herself” variety. Emily, that’s her harvesting rapa with CERES farmer Vince, says she’s been playing at being a farmer her whole life and it’s about all she’s ever wanted to do. Like so many farmers Emily’s journey started as a kid hanging around […]
Gil & Mem's trail of inspiration. The sliding doors of oval autumnal fruits.
Since the 1970’s when they started an intentional community called Compost in Thornbury, Gil and Meredith Freeman have left a trail of inspiration in their wake (that’s them above). They’re this two pronged unstoppable force for good, solving problems wherever they go with the good humoured power of resilient people based projects. As teachers in the 1970’s they wanted to work outside the mainstream so they helped start the […]
CERES plays a long game. The tyranny of the herb bunch.
So every year during a convenient-to-tax-time window CERES, our parent organisation, has its annual appeal. This year the focus is on supporting CERES’ environmental education programs; firstly because nobody is teaching this stuff on the scale that CERES does and secondly because the programs are really quite extraordinary. Each year over 60,000 school students, like the cute bunch in the picture above, roll into CERES […]
Don't plant in winter months beginning with 'J'. Go toward the light Ameen.
This morning while I froze on the sidelines at my son’s footy game I thought of the Foothills Organics crew down in Colac harvesting in the frost. My hands felt sympathy pains for whoever was washing the radishes and leeks. When I got home I called Joe Sgro who said the frost had stuck around all morning. He was hoping a band of […]
Farmer Noleen: The chosen one. 3,2,1 Good Gut is Go!
If Keanu Reeve’s Neo was The One who intuitively knows The Matrix then Noleen Glavish is The One who truly knows pumpkins. After a career as a publisher Noleen has found her calling in the hills around Buxton as a grower. Each Monday Noleen rolls up in her Landcruiser and pulls out boxes of some of the best looking fruit and vegetables I’ve ever […]
Is this a feijoa rapture? Cast your vote in the Bowel Buddy Box Comp.
I was in the CERES main office this week and there lying casually in a bowl on the lunch table were a couple of feijoas. I ate one thinking how lucky I was. A few minutes later down in CERES Honey Lane market garden our head farmer, Meg Stewart, took me aside to a waist […]
