Tamil Feasts meets Joe's Market Garden. Unglut Your Gut – last week to join.
On the last Tuesday evening in January two of CERES’ most dynamic worlds collide when Tamil Feasts go down to Joe’s Market Garden to feed the people. Brimming with talent like a seventies supergroup, only not so overblown as say an Emerson Lake and Palmer, these shooting stars of social enterprise promise an evening by the creek […]
The passata is the political. When the amaranth calls your name.
When the world seems out of control and people all around seem to be sipping from the bubbler of blame and fear, there is something positive and practical we can do. Something simple that brings us together, that makes us nutritionally and emotionally happier, that makes our communities stronger and supports local tomato farmers. It’s Crowdsaucing […]
How to grow a farmer. Vince's broad bean bounty. More CERES tomato seedlings.
Once upon a time we were all farmers – well most of us were. As the industrial revolution took hold more and more of us left the the land to become shopkeepers, doctors and digital insights analysts and we finally came to a today where hardly any of us are farmers or even have family […]
The Incredibles / Come down to the farm
Almost as soon as I landed in the UK, I began seeing evidence of their handiwork. Around Lambeth in South London I ran into a community orchard, a community greenhouse, raised veggie beds at bus stops. Later in two towns in Devon I see rows of edible beds holding pride of place in parks, roadsides and outside […]
Wanna buy a farm? / Complete Urban Farmer
Wanna buy a farm? Carolyn Suggate wants to buy a farm, well lots of farms actually and not just for herself she wants to buy farms with people who care about securing land to be farmed organically forever. This week the Organic and Regenerative Investment Co-operative (ORI Coop), Carolyn co-founded is launching the prospectus for Lyndale Park, a 714 hectare […]
How weeds lead and why we follow / Try Monday and/or Friday
How weeds lead and why we follow Two years ago this coming weekend CERES farmer Emily Connors (that’s Em with her marriage equality rainbow chard above) started selling a few bunches of produce from a table at Joe’s Market Garden. We’d been talking about setting up a farm gate just like farmer Joe Garita had done many […]
