Ahead of his time, again / Meet “Previously Ordered”
Ahead of his time, again. Four years ago this past week Joe Garita, our market garden mentor, passed away (that’s Joe above with his John Deere tractor). Beginning in 1945 with his father and then later with Jean, his wife, Joe farmed his two and a half acre market garden on the Merri Creek feeding his […]
Eat at Joe’s
For years I’ve watched people wander off the Merri Creek swing bridge, round the corner and stop dead in the middle of the bike path, mesmerised by a scene out of time and place.
A Big Tree Falls on Merri Creek
A couple of days ago Joe Garita passed away, he was 89 years old. You might know Joe from the broad bean seeds we gave out last year. Joe has been growing those broad beans in his Coburg market garden since 1945. On that small piece of land on the banks of the Merri Creek […]
