How wet is it?
If it’s wet and cold here, it’s going to be wetter and colder down at Joe Sgro’s place.
Thanisa Adams’ practical reponse
Through spring and summer Thanisa’s growing strawflowers, statice, Queen Anne’s lace, cornflowers, Canterbury bells, sunflowers, zinnias and lots of dahlias.
It’s very wet in Colac / Playspace Design Launch
It’s very wet in Colac On Friday night I gave Lliam, my neighbour, a lift down from Melbourne to Fish Creek. I drop him at his front door and as I turn to take my usual short cut across their hill top paddock, Em, Lliam’s wife calls out from the veranda that the field is […]
Fair Food and Meat. Joe Sgro, MasterChef and Deep Purple….potatoes.
We are getting our logistics and website ready at Fair Food to begin selling meat. Eating meat is a big deal; as a kid I’ll always remember the quiet, slightly regretful mood that came over my dad and uncles when they home-killed a sheep. The same feeling was cemented in me when I worked as […]
Renewing vows with Joe Sgro. Is this a bloat I feel within?
I’ve been buying vegetables from Joe Sgro since 2001 when CERES started its Organic Market (that’s him above). I pledged then that CERES would always stick with him and he promised he would always take care of us. At some stage of every year since we repeat a version of this conversation and it’s like we are renewing […]
Don't plant in winter months beginning with 'J'. Go toward the light Ameen.
This morning while I froze on the sidelines at my son’s footy game I thought of the Foothills Organics crew down in Colac harvesting in the frost. My hands felt sympathy pains for whoever was washing the radishes and leeks. When I got home I called Joe Sgro who said the frost had stuck around all morning. He was hoping a band of […]
