Winter drops in. Love Crowdsaucing? Now try Krautsourcing.
It’s funny, last week I read that the 2016 El Niño was officially over, the very next day the cold front hit and it was like summer had leap-frogged autumn and gone straight into winter. Suddenly it’s too cold for Shelley and Craig Heppel to grow lettuce, Coolibah Farm’s roquette got frozen in Monday’s frost and overnight broccoli […]
Crowdsaucing: preliminary research in. Breaking up with Poly continued.
12 adults, 2 kids, various buckets, colanders, pots, jars and 100 kilos of tomatoes found themselves in Crowdsaucing co-ordinator Monique Miller’s backyard yesterday participating in some serious research for our first Crowdsaucing Day this coming April 30th. You can watch passata masters on YouTube, read about sauce making in glossy preserving books, even talk to folk […]
Could you be a Crowdsaucer? Richmond Food Host are you out there?
We have tomato growers in Victoria, we have food processors in Melbourne. Why can’t we just put them together to can or bottle organic tomatoes here in Australian instead of importing them from Italy? I mean how hard can it be? This is a conversation we’ve been having at Fair Food for a long time now. We decided we’d […]
An emerging passata groundswell. Khoo calls in for Coburg country cook-up.
So last week out of the Fair Food Zeitgeist the idea of a crowdsaucing day emerged. In the days following 146 of you emailed to say something along the lines of, I’ve been thinking the same thing and I’m in. Now ours is not to question why we are suddenly and inexplicably drawn to sauce […]
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 […]
