You helped do this. F21 Thanks. Extra Generous Cooks Box.
On Friday, at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, a couple of thousand food-curious/concerned folk attended day and night sessions of festival21 to talk about the future of food. The day was huge, filled with stories of people using food to transform themselves, their communities and their environments. With Open Table and Tamil Feasts I was part of an instant fundraising session for CERES Fair Food (that’s […]
Crowdsaucing – 1 week to get your tomatoes. Jenny & Steve's Spanish Reds.
If you’ve been promising yourself that this is the year you’ll make passata, it is not too late, but it almost is. There’s one more week to get your tomatoes for Crowdsaucing Day and sauce it up like they do at the Fitzroy Community Food Centre (that’s them above and yes, they’re hosting a Crowdsaucing if you’d like […]
Nathan's tomatoes now on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day.
The new Crowdsaucing website is up and the five tonnes of organic saucing tomatoes Nathan Free has been growing up at Lake Boga this summer are on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day Saturday April 30th. We’ve set the cut-off date to secure your saucing tomatoes on midnight Sunday 24th April. And with only 500 boxes […]
The cosmic cogs of Kelvin & Kumi Slade. 5 tonnes of saucers sold!
Sometimes I have the feeling our lives are governed by the orbits of giant cosmic cogs turning in enormous orbits behind the red velvet curtain of our consciousness – (whoah, think I just stumbled onto Swatch astrology). forget that, anyway a week ago I was in the warehouse standing face to face with egg farmer and […]
Nirma's Story. Didier Pajoy's Coffee Arrives. Jar up for Crowdsaucing Day.
I want to share Nirma’s story which was posted on New Humans of Australia. Nirma (that’s him up there) is one of four chefs at the hugely popular Tamil Feasts (held at CERES every Monday and Tuesday) and he also works as part of the packing crew at the Fair Food warehouse. I am a Tamil refugee […]
It's been a big a week in sauce. Turn right to Dench.
As the sun went down on Saturday’s first Crowdsaucing Day a tired, happy sauce-stained sigh of relief and a little disbelief could be heard from various Fair Food staff around the city. Probably none more so than organiser, Monique Miller, who on Friday morning an hour before tomatoes were supposed to be despatched wasn’t sure whether […]
