How Now Dairy – Cow-centred farming/ Love Stories and Dedications
How Now Dairy – Cow-centred farming Cathy Palmer and Les Sandles are doing something at their Wunghnu dairy farm, their industry said couldn’t be done. They’re milking cows while keeping the calves with their mothers. It sounds pretty simple but it goes directly against dairy farming orthodoxy and is shaking people’s ideas up about what’s possible when comes to […]
The supermarket and the supplier. The man who honey-coated Melbourne.
Recently I was talking to the rep of a grocery maker about her experience selling products to Coles (I won’t name her for obvious reasons). Anyway she was telling me that if Coles decided they’d stop selling one of her products she’d be charged about $15,000 to delete the line. “You get charged to stop selling an item?” I […]
Fair Food: A Growing Movement
At an event organised by The Wheeler Centre last year, panellists were asked to debate whether our food fetish has gone too far. On the affirmative side, speakers pointed to examples of our growing obsession with gourmet, artisanal and truly good tucker. Food for thought indeed, but in Europe the notion of knowing where your […]
