Fair wood for your fire / No box left behind
Fair wood for your fire On Friday Pete Smyth, Fair Wood’s manager, came back to the Fair Food warehouse with a truckload of firewood (that’s it above). After Pete unloaded the four and a half tons of firewood by hand he was heard to say, “I am very tired now.” Pete has been wanting […]
Social / unsocial it all comes around. A box saved.
I get the feeling there’s more than just stolen wages involved in 7-Eleven’s systematic underpaying of it’s workers. Same with Coles’ and Woolworths’ “Mind the gap” programs demanding suppliers cover their losses. When our leading companies demonstrate that bullying and meanness are more important in a “successful” business than kindness and respect it filters down setting a tone for […]
Shane O'Dea and his fresh pistachios / Boxes at 61%
The picture above is Shane O’Dea cuddling his family’s harvest of fresh pistachios (that’s right, fresh). Last year Shane wandered into the Fair Food warehouse with a five kilo box of shiny pink nuts and asked if we were interested. Needless to say we said yes and asked him if he would come back again this year. Shane’s family planted 2000 pistachio trees […]
Nine years later… / Send them home
Nine years later This week CERES Fair Food is nine. Fair Food was kind of an accident, it started life as a weekly veggie co-op for CERES staff. Each week a couple of co-op members would pack fruit and veg into boxes on a picnic table outside the old quarry hut. There were […]
Al Bardon’s Steri-Matic 7000
Flat pack your boxes and leave them out for collection, the Bardon Steri-Matic 7000 is go!
Recycling the world as the sun comes up.
The question has been posed, what does breakfast have in common with the general concept of recycling? Gee well there’s a few directions you could take that. There’s the path that leads to thinking about breakfast as the first meal of the day, beginning again the metabolic processes of food digestion, internal composting, and finally […]
