The passata is the political. When the amaranth calls your name.
When the world seems out of control and people all around seem to be sipping from the bubbler of blame and fear, there is something positive and practical we can do. Something simple that brings us together, that makes us nutritionally and emotionally happier, that makes our communities stronger and supports local tomato farmers. It’s Crowdsaucing […]
Sap Rising: The Complete Urban Farmer. 21 Days of Crowdsaucing
Everything feels political these post-truth days – if you search the phrase “gardening as a political act” you will discover no end of articles talking up vegetable growing as an avenue of resistance. You may even come across “Gardening is Gangsta” a Texan rotary-hoeing rap crew’s call to community gardeners world-wide to opt-out of the financial-military-industrial complex and plant […]
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 […]
Crowdsaucing – 1 week to get your tomatoes. Jenny & Steve's Spanish Reds.
If you’ve been promising yourself that this is the year you’ll make passata, it is not too late, but it almost is. There’s one more week to get your tomatoes for Crowdsaucing Day and sauce it up like they do at the Fitzroy Community Food Centre (that’s them above and yes, they’re hosting a Crowdsaucing if you’d like […]
Nathan's tomatoes now on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day.
The new Crowdsaucing website is up and the five tonnes of organic saucing tomatoes Nathan Free has been growing up at Lake Boga this summer are on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day Saturday April 30th. We’ve set the cut-off date to secure your saucing tomatoes on midnight Sunday 24th April. And with only 500 boxes […]
Nirma's Story. Didier Pajoy's Coffee Arrives. Jar up for Crowdsaucing Day.
I want to share Nirma’s story which was posted on New Humans of Australia. Nirma (that’s him up there) is one of four chefs at the hugely popular Tamil Feasts (held at CERES every Monday and Tuesday) and he also works as part of the packing crew at the Fair Food warehouse. I am a Tamil refugee […]
