Australian Certified not quite Organic. Annual Survey Wrap. Crowdfunding news
So you may have been following WA farmer, Steve Marsh’s GM contamination case. Marsh(that’s him with his kelpie) is an organic wheat farmer who lost his organic certification after genetically modified canola seeds drifted onto his property during his neighbour’s harvest.The analogy that was used to argue the case is that if you spray chemicals on your farm and those chemicals damage your neighbour’s crop […]
Starting our Food Hosts young, Madelaine's egg machine, Crowdfunding update
So much is going on this week I don’t know where to start. Okay, first this ridiculously cute picture of Sonny in a Fair Food box. Sonny’s parents Makoto and Jolene, who are new Food Hosts, have asked us to confirm that; 1. No, Sonny is not for sale 2. And, no you cannot […]
Soil – it's quite important. Crowdsaucing/sourcing. Em's pop-up produce.
So unlike World International Soup Week which we launched last month, the 2015 International Year of Soils is an actual officially UN sanctioned thing run by the FAO. As far as farmable soils go there’s not actually that much land on our planet we can use for farming and when you think we’ve already turned about a third of that […]