Ahead of his time, again / Meet “Previously Ordered”
Ahead of his time, again. Four years ago this past week Joe Garita, our market garden mentor, passed away (that’s Joe above with his John Deere tractor). Beginning in 1945 with his father and then later with Jean, his wife, Joe farmed his two and a half acre market garden on the Merri Creek feeding his […]
Got to be worth a try / Kids play at Joe’s Garden
Got to be worth a try I was looking at an Instagram post about the big vegetable growing competition at CERES Harvest Festival when a comment caught my attention…. “While CERES do great work in these sorts of areas, the lack of advocacy around the climate emergency is extremely disappointing. The planet won’t be […]
Bringing the murnong back / Closed Monday, back Tuesday
Bringing the murnong back These days the Kiwis seem to be way ahead of us in pretty much all areas of human endeavour. Take reconciliation; whenever I go to see a New Zealander speak, be they brown or white, they’re forever reeling off paragraph-long Māori welcomes, breaking into traditional song or pulling off a flawless haka at the drop […]
Mushin’s magnificent millipede
On Friday while picking up some tomato seedlings from CERES Propagation I spy the unmistakable red bearded figure of Steve Mushin creating some kind of metal hooped sculpture up on the hill. This vision can only mean one thing.
