No time not to use the regular plates / Farm seeks a farmer
No time not to use the regular plates On Friday I went with my sons and several thousand other Victorian children to the steps of the Treasury Museum for the Students Strike For Climate Change. From a respectful (non-embarrassing) distance it was thrilling to watch the crowd of young faces welcoming waves of […]
Freakish extreme meme-ism. New Food Hosts
This week I talked to Fair Food’s grape grower, Peter Kamvissis, from Merbein up near Mildura about the freak tornado and hail storm that came through last Friday night. Peter says it was like something out of a movie with trees coming down, grape vines all over the place and so many sheets of tin […]
Fair Food makes a move / New 5 Day Delivery Neighbourhoods
Just this afternoon at about 5pm, after two and a half epic days, we finished shifting Fair Food to its new warehouse in Preston – (that’s the last of us putting the finishing touches on the packing line). And when I say finished I use the term loosely – there are so many “mystery boxes” in the […]
Yummy choc coconut balls / A different kind of hero
Lately I’ve been writing about how Easter evolved from its pagan predecessor Eostre. In my wife’s childhood home Good Friday meant strict observance of Jesus’ sacrifice with quiet reflection, house cleaning, no meat eating, no phone calls to friends and definitely no playing. But for our kids today Jesus’ story is no longer their story – to […]
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 […]
The great revealing
Like the fires and the pandemic before it the aftermath of the flood reveals all kinds of truths about our climate, our governments, our communities and each other.
