Food waste: A not-quite-right world of possibility
So you want a hip job in the local food system? Well you’d do worse than throwing yourself into food waste (well not actually throwing yourself in). Anyway, since the 2013 Foodwise food waste report identified that we throw about $8 billion worth of perfectly good food into Australian landfills each year, solving the food waste issue has become a […]
Could you be a Crowdsaucer? Richmond Food Host are you out there?
We have tomato growers in Victoria, we have food processors in Melbourne. Why can’t we just put them together to can or bottle organic tomatoes here in Australian instead of importing them from Italy? I mean how hard can it be? This is a conversation we’ve been having at Fair Food for a long time now. We decided we’d […]
The Fouard Identity and The New Veg Only Medium. Stone Free.
Before she came to Fair Food, Isabelle Fouard worked in the marketing department of global food giant Nestle. She was deeply involved in the product development and launch of the kind of drink, yoghurt and fruit snack items you see lining the fridges and shelves of your local supermarket.At Nestle Isabelle was schooled in the most sophisticated marketing techniques her industry had […]
An emerging passata groundswell. Khoo calls in for Coburg country cook-up.
So last week out of the Fair Food Zeitgeist the idea of a crowdsaucing day emerged. In the days following 146 of you emailed to say something along the lines of, I’ve been thinking the same thing and I’m in. Now ours is not to question why we are suddenly and inexplicably drawn to sauce […]
Soil – it's quite important. Crowdsaucing/sourcing. Em's pop-up produce.
So unlike World International Soup Week which we launched last month, the 2015 International Year of Soils is an actual officially UN sanctioned thing run by the FAO. As far as farmable soils go there’s not actually that much land on our planet we can use for farming and when you think we’ve already turned about a third of that […]
Something for nothing and your lemons for free
This morning I was out walking when I came across a man wiping down the large green box that controls the traffic lights at our local school crossing. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was cleaning off the graffiti and that he does it quite regularly. The selflessness of it got me thinking […]
