Abundance Farm Eggs / A Haiku for Crowdsaucing
When Alex from Abundance Farm stopped into the Fair Food warehouse for a chat recently I was reminded of all the times I’ve heard someone say how they’d love to get out of the city, buy some land, plant some trees, keep a few chooks and grow their own food. Alex and his partner, Kali, recently took that leap. After lots of […]
Come to the party.
Everything raised will support organic & biodynamic farmers affected by the bushfires around Australia.
When the war is over
And here we are today rueful that we kind of declared war on our planet to feed ourselves but still unsure how we fix the mess.
Australian Certified not quite Organic. Annual Survey Wrap. Crowdfunding news
So you may have been following WA farmer, Steve Marsh’s GM contamination case. Marsh(that’s him with his kelpie) is an organic wheat farmer who lost his organic certification after genetically modified canola seeds drifted onto his property during his neighbour’s harvest.The analogy that was used to argue the case is that if you spray chemicals on your farm and those chemicals damage your neighbour’s crop […]
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…
Sad truth about sow stalls by Doron Francis
Recently I was chatting to a bunch of seemingly well informed people about Food Inc the movie. One of the comments made was that the film was about industrial agricultural in the USA, so wasn’t ‘relevant’ to Australians. It’s interesting to see how very little we actually know about where our food comes from, how […]
