Starting our Food Hosts young, Madelaine's egg machine, Crowdfunding update
So much is going on this week I don’t know where to start. Okay, first this ridiculously cute picture of Sonny in a Fair Food box. Sonny’s parents Makoto and Jolene, who are new Food Hosts, have asked us to confirm that; 1. No, Sonny is not for sale 2. And, no you cannot […]
Black Seed Oil – "the cure for everything but death". Jenny's Quinces
Each week Alex, Fair Food‘s grocery buyer, sends me a note about the new things we’re getting into the webstore (which BTW you can always find here – New Products). Anyway this week Alex noted beside newly the arrived Black Seed Oil , “This cures everything but death!” Now Alex is not normally prone to overstating things so her claim for the miraculous healing power of Black Seed Oil intrigued me. […]
Fair Food's Pear to Peer Network, A better name for the Bowel Buddy Box
I was talking this week to John Mustafa from Petty’s Orchard in Templestowe about their season. With only the Lady Williams and persimmons to come John and his father, Sam, are coming to the end of picking now. John says it’s been a bit of a light year for apples but there have been plenty of […]
When we were 5. Kate Soulsby is Scobywoman!
So 5 years ago…. …..this week Fair Food turned on its website and began packing and delivering fruit and veg boxes to a handful of Food Hosts and customers around Melbourne (it looked something like the pic above but with more panicked expressions).For those of you who don’t know the Fair Food story it all […]
Human scale in a tilt slab world. Do you want to build a scoby?
We’re in WA for the school holidays visiting family. Driving in from the airport Perth can seem all McMansion suburbs serviced by concrete tilt slab strip malls filled with brand outlets, a celebration of corporate growth culture. I didn’t expect to find much here until I was talking to my mother-in law, Jenny, about kimchi. You need to go to the kimchi shop she […]
Farmers are humans too. Deep in the heart of CERES.
Over the past few years an idealised image of a kind of hero farmer has emerged – typically it’s an earthy yet evolved being in a pair of weathered overalls and chequered shirt gathering colourful heirloom produce for farmers market stands and veggie box schemes. These tough, gentle folk are often credited with having a sort […]
