How do you get a chestnut out? Bowel Buddy Box Breaking News
Jenny and Steve dropped almost 300kg of their chestnuts at CERES this week, we’re putting them in some of our set boxes as well as the webshop. When I asked Jenny how they get their nuts out of the prickly cases she replies, very carefully and with two pairs of gloves. Jenny says the spines have a habit […]
Benedict Hughes' sweet deliverance. Alex brings home the coconut.
A few months ago I wrote about urban beekeeping pioneer, Lyndon Fenlon, and the urban honey legacy he left Melbourne when he left Melbourne. Well Benedict Hughes akaThe Practical Beekeeper, that’s him above collecting honey on the rooftop of The Commons Apartments in Brunswick, is one of the keepers of that legacy. Benedict makes a living as an urban […]
Trying to be at one with weeds. Win a uBiome test and see what's going on in your gut!
My hands and forearms are a painful mess of little cuts – I can see black thorns dotted all under my inflamed skin. We’ve been away for the summer and “the blackberry situation” at our place has gotten away from us. This weekend I’ve been slashing and grubbing out blackberry, we’ll spray the regrowth with organic pine-oil to knock it back, get the cows in to graze the flush […]
A Big Tree Falls on Merri Creek
A couple of days ago Joe Garita passed away, he was 89 years old. You might know Joe from the broad bean seeds we gave out last year. Joe has been growing those broad beans in his Coburg market garden since 1945. On that small piece of land on the banks of the Merri Creek […]
Ecostore Sugar Cane Packaging, uBiome Contest Winner, Super Cheap Tomatoes & A Job Going at Fair Food
Packaging is such a vexed issue, we struggle with it at Fair Food all the time. Last Monday ecostore took a big packaging leap forward replacing their plastic bottles with bottles made from sugar cane. The bottles don’t breakdown but are made to be recycled with regular plastics so the material can be reused again and […]
Harvest Festival, Fair Food Survey, Cheap Pulses, Job Going at Fair Food
I was having a look through this year’s CERES Harvest Festival program and it’s getting really big. CERES’ most joyous day has become almost country fair-like and as always it’s grounded with an undercurrent of thanksgiving for the food we harvest, cook and eat week in and week out. The first thing I always do at Harvest Festival is head […]
