The produce and the people / Urban farming kids
The produce and the people Today I was taking pleasure in a wheelbarrow full of a dark, moist chocolatey compost; a miracle of microbiological transmogrification. I’m no musician or gifted cook, but I can make a pretty good compost (it’s possibly genetic; my dad is well known for his heaps). Anyway, I was admiring the compost because Alan, our neighbour’s, […]
A lesson from Mo, broad beans with Joe and a word with Eric
A lesson from Mo! It’s been a big week for Fair Food’s production supervisor, Mohammed Nabaei. When Doug, a journalist from The Thomson Reuters Foundation, visited in August to do an article on Fair Food nobody really gave it a second thought. But when the article was picked up by the South China Morning Post nobody was […]
The magic of social mycelium / Farmer Christmas at Joe’s
The magic of social mycelium This is our last full week of deliveries for 2018 (yes, we’re delivering on Christmas Eve Monday). As we wind up for the year and take our usual two week break (our first 2019 delivery is on Monday January 7th) I want to share with you a little of […]
Between convenience and connection
Between convenience and connection Yesterday morning at a small café off Sydney Road I shared a plate of fried dumplings with my eight year old son. The café was empty apart from a solitary diner across the room sipping her wonton soup . As we ate our food we curiously watched a stream of […]
Mathees’ 10 year homecoming / Footy ends, asparagus begins
Mathees’ ten year homecoming It’s been a big year for Matheeswaran Subramaniam, fondly known as Mathees at the Fair Food warehouse (that’s Mathees on the right moving our warehouse). In the year he bought his first home in Australia he’s also been able to go back to his Sri Lankan home. And right now as you read this, for the first time […]
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts / Fair Food Job Closing
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts Last week in a return-of-the-light antidote to mid-winter, post-election, extinction crisis despair I wrote about the first Murnong planting at Joe’s Garden, the CERES staff solstice bonfire and NUCA’s (Neighbours United for Climate Action) first meeting. I also wrote about an eight season calendar that I’d fallen in love with which I couldn’t quite fit in….until […]
