Make friends with a turnip. Say hello to your new Food Hosts
Our ancestors knew this season very, very well indeed; it was the time of year to make friends with turnips or some other survival food that would see them through the winter famine. It’s that season now and there is no better time to begin a relationship with a turnip, a swede, perhaps a parsnip […]
Happy lower intestine = happy life. Patronise your local Food Host.
Lately, usually to a stony faced response, I’ve been recommending fecal transplants to my friends and family for basically every physical and mental ailment they collectively suffer from. Now if you watched Gut Reaction on ABC’s Catalyst last week you’d know I’m only half joking. The bottom line (no pun intended) is that if we feed the billions […]
Caring for your food host: a guide. Clifroy Community Bank does something truly special.
Fair Food has 67 Food Hosts across Melbourne Food. It’s really quite a strange concept when you think about it; somebody sharing a space at their homes for others (read complete strangers – at first anyway) to pick up their shopping from. Food Hosts make our strange but effective food distribution system work, without them […]
Happiness is like a sandstone. Free tomatoes for Cup Day. Late midday Monday order deadline.
I was reading something in the paper this morning about happiness, it came from a famous study that had followed a group of Harvard men for 75 years measuring every aspect of their lives. The conclusion of over three quarters of century’s scientific effort was that happiness is not related to a successful career or high intelligence […]
Recycling the world as the sun comes up.
The question has been posed, what does breakfast have in common with the general concept of recycling? Gee well there’s a few directions you could take that. There’s the path that leads to thinking about breakfast as the first meal of the day, beginning again the metabolic processes of food digestion, internal composting, and finally […]
Starting our Food Hosts young, Madelaine's egg machine, Crowdfunding update
So much is going on this week I don’t know where to start. Okay, first this ridiculously cute picture of Sonny in a Fair Food box. Sonny’s parents Makoto and Jolene, who are new Food Hosts, have asked us to confirm that; 1. No, Sonny is not for sale 2. And, no you cannot […]
