Get a feast sized delivery on Christmas eve!
We’re have a short break for 2 weeks but will be back Jan 7 to keep your Summer grocery supplies (and all the peaches) fully stocked! ps. The calendar is working in your favour this year … get (very) Last minute, ethical gifts and festive groceries delivered to your door on december 24!
Speaking to Jason and selling plums
Speaking to Jason and selling plums These summer holidays in Perth have fostered a kind of existential hopelessness. Firstly, when I hear at beach that the sunscreen we have been so well-trained to slap onto our family’s skin is poisoning the coral reefs it creates a paralysing moral choice between melanoma and marine ecosystem destruction? Secondly, […]
9 reasons for thanks-giving. Forget Xbox – go Fbox!
Liz, Fair Food’s cook who puts recipes together every week, sent through this 99 Reasons Why 2016 Was a Good Year link as a life-line to get me out of the news-feed negativity spiral I had found myself trapped in these last 6 months. It was a long list of affirmative things humanity had achieved this past year […]
Come together / Thanks….
Thank to you for all your support, your feedback, your stories and for another wonderful year – we would not be here without you.
A week to be thankful. Christmas specials and a little break.
Over December I’ve been on long service leave with my family in Vietnam. We’ve just been to Can Tho on the Mekong River to visit the famous floating wholesale produce market. That’s it in the pic above, if you are a vegetable logistics enthusiast it’s a must see. Later that day at our hotel while I was watching our kids swim in the pool I got talking to a young waiter called Khanh. Khanh was the first son of a rice farmer and had come to Can Tho to study and find work. The next night we all went out for dinner and learnt a little aboutKhanh’s life. Fresh out of university with a degree in tourism Khanh hoped one day to be a tour guide but for the moment was working two hospitality jobs (he also had a job at a local Burger King). He told me his wages were about $150 month, $50 of that going to pay for his room in a boarding house. Later when we went for ice cream I worked out the price of our 5 cones were equivalent to Khanh’s wages for that day. Now Khanh isn’t badly off by Vietnam standards; he’s educated, well fed and clothed, has a steady income and good prospects. There are many people in his community living far more precarious existences but It just made me think […]
Come away from the light now. Cabbage Heart of Darkness Part II
It’s been two weeks since we closed for the Christmas break but it feels much longer. Wherever we may have been, whatever we have done, whatever has happened to us it’s time to come back to the everyday. Back to our roles as workers, students, volunteers, community members. And, unless they have been truly rotten, this is the […]
