Deep Cycle Fruit & Veg
It goes like clockwork: around this time of year I get a phone call from Paul Haar to let me know his feijoas are finished for the season, a week later Ian Cuming calls to say his kiwifruit is ready to go. Paul and I say our goodbyes till next April and later when I talk to Ian for the […]
Gil & Mem's trail of inspiration. The sliding doors of oval autumnal fruits.
Since the 1970’s when they started an intentional community called Compost in Thornbury, Gil and Meredith Freeman have left a trail of inspiration in their wake (that’s them above). They’re this two pronged unstoppable force for good, solving problems wherever they go with the good humoured power of resilient people based projects. As teachers in the 1970’s they wanted to work outside the mainstream so they helped start the […]
Is this a feijoa rapture? Cast your vote in the Bowel Buddy Box Comp.
I was in the CERES main office this week and there lying casually in a bowl on the lunch table were a couple of feijoas. I ate one thinking how lucky I was. A few minutes later down in CERES Honey Lane market garden our head farmer, Meg Stewart, took me aside to a waist […]
