It’s cold this week / Joe’s Farm Gate
It’s cold this week It’s been a cold week in Victoria. On Tuesday The Age reported it was the coldest June day in 25 years and as is custom at Fair Food during the coldest part of the year we acknowledge our farmers frozen fingers and chilled extremities. Early this morning over in the Schulz Organic […]
When fungi calls your name / Joe’s Farm Raiser / Vote 1 CERES
When fungi calls your name What kind of mushrooms do marine biologists like best? Oyster mushrooms of course! (Ouch! I’m so sorry) John Ford (that’s him in the pic) holds a PhD in Marine Biology and has spent his career reducing the environmental impact of fishing. Lately however John’s lifelong passion for fungi has been taking him […]
Reconnecting with asparagus / Joe’s Farm-Raiser Party
Reconnecting with asparagus This week if you take some time to quiet your mind and find a place where the edges of human & universal consciousness overlap, you may just be able to feel the subterranean vibration of asparagus crowns awakening in the swamps of Koo Wee Rup. And it’s about this time of year I feel […]
Veggie Pickers Week / July at Joe's
Oooooh it’s cold. Saturday’s frosty kale pic above from Joe’s Market Garden makes me think of all the people who harvest our vegetables at this time of year. Harvesting fruit is different; before the cold hits all our apples, pears and kiwi that will get us through to stone fruit season have been picked and safely stored away. Many veggies however, […]
Shelter in the storm
Through the storm of this last eighteen months Joe’s Farmgate is growing up; evolving its identity from CERES’ little sister site into something entirely its own.
Birds, trees, beetroot and olives
So much happening around CERES during this wintery weather! From firewood and awards for Fair Wood, to our waste-free beetroot curry workshop, and Joes Garden Feathery Fundraiser (complete with bird-themed dress up) at the farm gate. Busy season!
