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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eating in season
We know all the reasons to eat local, seasonal food – because it’s generally fresher, tastier and more nutritious, it reduces the energy needed to grow, package, store and transport food, it supports the local economy, tunes us into nature’s seasons and is almost always cheaper than food that has travelled a long way, but […]
