Cinnamon – our flavour of the week. Communing with cabbage.

Some weeks the world lets you know you’re doing alright. Last Thursday it happened to our CEO Cinnamon Evans who took home the inaugural Mike Hill Environmental Sustainability Award in recognition of her 20 years of service at CERES.  That nod of recognition will be reinforced a little bit more this Thursday when Cinnamon speaks at the Global Social Economy Forum aka […]

The wisdom to know the difference. CERES farm open day.

Twenty-five years ago Premier Jeff Kennett took power in Victoria and with it he also took 90% of CERES’ funding.  Overnight teachers lost jobs, education programs were cut, a hard gloom descended over the park. After years of growing a living classroom from an old tip site, years of working bees, years of scraping funds together, years of […]

Reallocating the red carpet

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  Reallocating the red carpet   Last Monday our own Lorna Pettifer won the equivalent of the Brownlow when she was announced as Australian Environmental Educator of the Year. And though Nat Fyfe is surely good at footy in this time of climate emergency it could be a wise move to reallocate the red carpet from the fella […]

CERES plays a long game. The tyranny of the herb bunch.

So every year during a convenient-to-tax-time window CERES, our parent organisation, has its annual appeal.  This year the focus is on supporting CERES’ environmental education programs; firstly because nobody is teaching this stuff on the scale that CERES does and secondly because the programs are really quite extraordinary. Each year over 60,000 school students, like the cute bunch in the picture above, roll into CERES […]