Crowdsaucing: preliminary research in. Breaking up with Poly continued.
12 adults, 2 kids, various buckets, colanders, pots, jars and 100 kilos of tomatoes found themselves in Crowdsaucing co-ordinator Monique Miller’s backyard yesterday participating in some serious research for our first Crowdsaucing Day this coming April 30th. You can watch passata masters on YouTube, read about sauce making in glossy preserving books, even talk to folk […]
Cute. The Long and Rewiring Road. Bless you Nathan Free.
Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon but Facebook posts of kittens doing cute things have never really set my world on fire – quite the opposite. However this post of a tiny Fair Food box created to go inside a dolls house built out of a full sized Fair Food box had me throwing off my wet blanket and letting go […]
I believe the children are our future. A food host story.
I was at the new Melbourne Wholesale Markets in Epping last Thursday morning when I ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen for a while. He has four children from his first marriage and his current partner has four children from her first marriage. He told me that they’re about to have a baby […]
Shop News. Japanese cooking and the man with clay-seed balls
My favourite Japanese thinker is self-confessed lazy farmer, Masanobo Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution – a book which shaped Permaculture thinking. In 1937, during a bout of illness, Fukuoka, a plant pathologist, had a mystical experience in which he envisioned a new type of agriculture. After he recovered Fukuoka quit his city job and went back […]
In the field this week. Josh's produce report.
I’m at home sitting over the heater looking at the weather forecast – if ever there was a time to appreciate farmers then this is the week. And some of the farmers who do it toughest at times like this are the market gardeners (sorry dairy farmers – next time I promise). I rang Shelley Heppell from Green Gully Organics (that’s […]
Polystyrene esky there's something I need to tell you. Everybody's talking soup at me.
For a long time now I’ve been having this conversation over and over in my head – it goes something like….. …..Polystyrene esky, I think we need to change our relationship. I know we’ve been together for a long time but it feels like we’ve got this unhealthy co-dependant thing going on. It’s, it’s….it’s….well you’re […]
