Shane O'Dea and his fresh pistachios / Boxes at 61%

The picture above is Shane O’Dea cuddling his family’s harvest of fresh pistachios (that’s right, fresh).  Last year Shane wandered into the Fair Food warehouse with a five kilo box of shiny pink nuts and asked if we were interested. Needless to say we said yes and asked him if he would come back again this year.   Shane’s family planted 2000 pistachio trees […]

Making friends can really shake your life up. Care for your box, care for the world.

When I started researching coffee I heard a lot of talk about cupping. It sounded mysterious; I first imagined cupping was similar to the Chinese medicine practice but with hot latte glasses suctioned to the taster’s body containing different coffee beans and then by a process of infusion he or she came up with a score for each batch. […]

Recycling the world as the sun comes up.

The question has been posed, what does breakfast have in common with the general concept of recycling? Gee well there’s a few directions you could take that. There’s the path that leads to thinking about breakfast as the first meal of the day, beginning again the metabolic processes of food digestion, internal composting, and finally […]