Ian and his intense kiwi / Beetroot & Parsnip Fortnight
Like seasonal clockwork feijoas drift out of our fruit bowls as kiwis appear. Hoddles Creek kiwi grower, Ian Cuming, spent the beginning of May with five highly motivated young backpackers (three Germans & two South Africans) picking his 15 tonne kiwi crop in two weeks versus the usual four. When they finished Ian left a couple of kiwi pallets out of his […]
A house full of wwoofers & a ute load of kiwis. Cheese, bees & pruning trees.
Our friend, Ian Cuming, from Beenak Farm dropped a ute load of his kiwi off at the warehouse this week. I first met Ian about 10 years ago when he was teaching a biodynamic farming course at CERES. With his gentle ways and deep knowledge of BD farming he was a much loved teacher. And […]
Deep Cycle Fruit & Veg
It goes like clockwork: around this time of year I get a phone call from Paul Haar to let me know his feijoas are finished for the season, a week later Ian Cuming calls to say his kiwifruit is ready to go. Paul and I say our goodbyes till next April and later when I talk to Ian for the […]
Ian Cuming – farmer at the pointy end. Got a spare warehouse?
Every year like clockwork Paul Haar calls to announce that his feijoas have finished. Pretty much the next day Ian Cuming (that’s him above) will be on the phone to talk about dropping off the first of his biodynamic kiwis Not this year though, with the endless summer everything is out of whack – feijoas […]
Gil & Mem's trail of inspiration. The sliding doors of oval autumnal fruits.
Since the 1970’s when they started an intentional community called Compost in Thornbury, Gil and Meredith Freeman have left a trail of inspiration in their wake (that’s them above). They’re this two pronged unstoppable force for good, solving problems wherever they go with the good humoured power of resilient people based projects. As teachers in the 1970’s they wanted to work outside the mainstream so they helped start the […]
