Lucky we’ve got Dan / Big news on the Recycled Kinetic Electric Playground

Dan O'Farrell CERES Fair Food

  Lucky we’ve got Dan Four years ago Dan O’Farrell finished his studies in Brisbane and came down to join CERES as professional writing intern.  After a few weeks of working on Fair Food’s Terms and Conditions page Dan confessed his dream to be a farmer….. Dan: “Chris is there any sort of farming I could do here?” Chris: “Hmmmm […]

A sebago anniversary / The onion situation

A sebago anniversary We’ve been talking about new farmers a lot lately but this week I want celebrate one of the old guard, Joe Sgro from Foothill Organics in Colac.  This year it’s 15 years since we started buying produce off Joe for CERES Market.  That’s Joe on the right at his farm stand at the old […]

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 […]