Basil, tomatoes, zucchini and a bumper crop of cherries, maybe. Rewiring the food system – you really delivered!
Lately, everything we’ve been missing over winter and spring seems to be announcing itself to the season; check out CERESfarmer, Katherine’s, shiny basil crop above, Labertouche’s cherry tomatoes are arriving next week, Craig and Shelley Heppell will be dropping off their new zucchinis at the warehouse tomorrow and there’ll be cherries, yes cherries, in almost all of […]
Thanks
351 of you have given $29,030 to rewire the food system – it’s wonderful, it’s heart-lifting to belong to this group of people who believe in something and then back it. On behalf of everybody who benefits from this project – our farmers, Fair Food’s workers, our Food Hosts, our customers present and future and all the students who come to learn […]
Born a free ranging man. Boring solution, such a lot of joy.
How’s this for an office? This is a picture of Dan Green’s egg farm in Lower Carrajung, South Gippsland. You may know Dan through his eggs, which he calls, Dan’s Real Free Range Eggs . I’m telling Dan’s story because I saw in the news this week a story about a free range egg farm being fined $300,000 for not […]
The supermarket and the supplier. The man who honey-coated Melbourne.
Recently I was talking to the rep of a grocery maker about her experience selling products to Coles (I won’t name her for obvious reasons). Anyway she was telling me that if Coles decided they’d stop selling one of her products she’d be charged about $15,000 to delete the line. “You get charged to stop selling an item?” I […]
Team Ameen. Crowd-funding update. CERES Heirloom Tomatoes for Cup Day Orderers.
The other day the Fair Food packing crew organised our first outside of work outing – a picnic at Edinburgh Gardens. It was wonderfully unremarkable; there was food and talk and kicking footy and our kids eating too many sweet things. And during a lull in the conversation as we all ate pieces of a very large triple […]
If you believe…..
It’s crunch time – one week to go before our Rewiring the food system campaign ends. One more week to buy the new software that will give more people access to Fair Food and by doing so will give more farmers fair prices, give more asylum seekers jobs and fund more education programs at CERES. 180 people have given $17,500, so it’s only $7,500 to get to our tipping point of $25,000 to make it happen. The scary thing is that If we don’t make the tipping point […]
