Longing to be belonging / Grassiest of grassroots gatherings / Dandenong Deliveries
Longing to be belonging “Everybody should have a place they belong to“, said the speaker at the social enterprise conference this week and I wrote the words down in my notebook and thought a bit…. Growing up I went to seven different schools and got good a taste of being the new kid in the street, […]
The Regathering / Holiday Provisioning Strategies
The Regathering In the beginning, or as far back as we can fathom, a functioning hunter-gatherer unit consisted of around 30-50 highly interdependent people with an intimate material and spiritual relationship with the plants and animals in the waters and landscape they came from. Today the smallest functioning post-industrial human family unit is one person […]
Svend and the Garden of Tastes
Svend and the Garden of Tastes Last July I visited Svend Davorksen at the warehouse of Aarstiderne – Denmark’s largest online organic grocery. I thought I was going to learn about cutting edge logistics and sophisticated marketing from one of Europe’s most successful organic food business. A year later I’m still trying to integrate what I […]
Getting on with it while our old men bicker / New Brunswick West Food Host
Getting on with it while our old men bicker This past week while we despaired at our old men in Canberra continuing to deny Indigenous communities a voice at the national table, refusing refugees safe haven, delaying marriage equality and prioritising of the world’s largest coal mining ahead of the world’s largest coral reef, there was down on […]
The Matrix, the abyss and a sack of rice / Help CERES stay crazy
The Matrix, the abyss and a sack of rice Since CEO, Cinnamon Evans swallowed her fear and spoke the words, CERES is a place that helps people fall in love with the earth, our mission has crystallised into getting so emotionally and economically connected with our ecology, so part of “the Mother” as elder Aunty Di […]
Porridge & the Promised Land / Pick our projects…please
Porridge & The Promised Land We’re all children of migrants; over millennia our ancestors have escaped ice ages, droughts, famines, religious persecution, great depressions and world war. There’s always a crisis in the mix and little by little our own crisis is revealing itself. This time, despite what American tech billionaire preppers might say about the South Island of New Zealand, […]
