Between convenience and connection
Between convenience and connection Yesterday morning at a small café off Sydney Road I shared a plate of fried dumplings with my eight year old son. The café was empty apart from a solitary diner across the room sipping her wonton soup . As we ate our food we curiously watched a stream of […]
Cometh the spring, cometh the spear. Job going at Fair Food.
The almond trees are in blossom at Honey Lane, broad beans are in flower at Joe’s Market Garden and the loquats on the tree across the road from my house are beginning to yellow up. We have a wild-seeded loquat tree in our front yard, it’s quite large now but the ring tail possums that […]
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts / Fair Food Job Closing
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts Last week in a return-of-the-light antidote to mid-winter, post-election, extinction crisis despair I wrote about the first Murnong planting at Joe’s Garden, the CERES staff solstice bonfire and NUCA’s (Neighbours United for Climate Action) first meeting. I also wrote about an eight season calendar that I’d fallen in love with which I couldn’t quite fit in….until […]
Work with us
This month we’re hiring a new customer service person! Read on for more about our team, our values, and of course the PD.
Mal and Ben good wood men / Congrats Nicky, welcome Kelly
Mal and Ben good wood men The big cold front rolled in this afternoon. The Bureau says the temperature has dropped from 18C to 12C though they reckon it actually feels like 6.7C. Which seems like as good a moment as any to talk firewood. Agroforesters Mal and Ben came to the Fair […]
Buontempos: Brothers in Gluten Free Arms
You wouldn’t know it from their deceptively unassuming fluoro attire but these two men are international gluten free food heroes. Max and Frank Buontempo are the brothers behind Orgran – one of the world’s gluten free food powerhouses.Today, from their amazing factory in Carrum Downs, they make and export gluten free cereals, flours, pastas, biscuits, crackers and more to 55 countries around the world. You’d think with the […]
