Rejoice – home compostable eco-cellophane. CERES – aiming for zero.
In the week before Christmas Alex,Fair Food’s grocery buyer, sent a joyous email out …. “The day has finally come – I can now say with confidence that all of our pre-packed dry goods come in biodegradable/ compostable packaging. Well, not quite – we still pack salad mix/cleaners etc in degradable plastic bags as we […]
Diary runneth over / No box left behind > 2018 Target
There’s so much going on over the next month I had to make a program…… Passata Making Workshop – Sunday 26th February I’m not sure how many tomato saucing devices Monique Miller has at home, but she’d easily be in the highest percentile of sauce equipment ownership in Australia. Monique, in preparation for this year’s 21 Days of Crowdsaucing, […]
Cinnamon – our flavour of the week. Communing with cabbage.
Some weeks the world lets you know you’re doing alright. Last Thursday it happened to our CEO Cinnamon Evans who took home the inaugural Mike Hill Environmental Sustainability Award in recognition of her 20 years of service at CERES. That nod of recognition will be reinforced a little bit more this Thursday when Cinnamon speaks at the Global Social Economy Forum aka […]
Follow the Cabbage Green Road.
Sauerkraut, formerly what eccentric Northern European uncles ate with their rye bread, blue vein and pickled herring, has in recent years become the unlikely hero of a gut-challenged generation. Feting the famous fermented cabbage dish Fair Food is holding Krautsourcing Day; a Melbourne-wide kraut-making celebration next Saturday Oct 8th. Now to the uninitiated fermenting a cabbage can present like […]
The wisdom to know the difference. CERES farm open day.
Twenty-five years ago Premier Jeff Kennett took power in Victoria and with it he also took 90% of CERES’ funding. Overnight teachers lost jobs, education programs were cut, a hard gloom descended over the park. After years of growing a living classroom from an old tip site, years of working bees, years of scraping funds together, years of […]
CERES: different & good / Tamil Feasts go on the road
CERES doing different and good In the beginning, back in the early eighties when Brunswick’s textile industry was packing up and heading for China. Back when local businesses were still using the Merri Creek as a sewer. Back when a culture of community mindedness was becoming swamped by a culture of shopping. A small group of people decided to do something different, something good […]
