Got to be worth a try / Kids play at Joe’s Garden
Got to be worth a try I was looking at an Instagram post about the big vegetable growing competition at CERES Harvest Festival when a comment caught my attention…. “While CERES do great work in these sorts of areas, the lack of advocacy around the climate emergency is extremely disappointing. The planet won’t be […]
If we could be like Mike….
At a fledgling CERES site in 1984, aided by a crew of unemployed locals, Mike Hill started Australia’s first curbside recycling scheme. Letter-boxing the neighbourhood Mike asked residents to put their newspapers, bottles and tin cans out on the nature strip in a bag. And so people tentatively began “taking out the recycling”. The next […]
Local Food Box Scheme: Seasonal Delights
Local, seasonal, organic. It’s all the rage, particularly in Melbourne, where food culture so nicely intersects with a groundswell of people looking to play their part and pay their fair share in supporting more equitable and sustainable local food systems. But I’m not going to lie. Eating a strict diet of locally sourced, seasonal fruit […]
Service Update: Long Labour Day Weekend!
The long Labour Day weekend is going to be, well, long and sunny. Yay! Having said that, thank goodness for the slightly cool(er) change this morning. We’re pretty sure our growers would be very happy to see droplets falling from the sky right about now. But in both rain or shine, we hope you’re keeping […]
Spring Newsletter Hot Off The Press
The CERES Fair Food Spring Almanac (Oct/Nov) is now out!!! You Are What You Eat, Christmas Hampers, Melbourne Cup Lucky Draw, Events and much, much more…
Carrotmob
I’ve been keeping an eye of Carrotmob for a while. For those of you who don’t know. “Carrotmob is a type of consumer activism in which businesses compete over how socially responsible they can be. A network of consumers then spend money to support whichever business makes the strongest offer. We harness consumer power to […]
