Thanks
351 of you have given $29,030 to rewire the food system – it’s wonderful, it’s heart-lifting to belong to this group of people who believe in something and then back it. On behalf of everybody who benefits from this project – our farmers, Fair Food’s workers, our Food Hosts, our customers present and future and all the students who come to learn […]
Team Ameen. Crowd-funding update. CERES Heirloom Tomatoes for Cup Day Orderers.
The other day the Fair Food packing crew organised our first outside of work outing – a picnic at Edinburgh Gardens. It was wonderfully unremarkable; there was food and talk and kicking footy and our kids eating too many sweet things. And during a lull in the conversation as we all ate pieces of a very large triple […]
If you believe…..
It’s crunch time – one week to go before our Rewiring the food system campaign ends. One more week to buy the new software that will give more people access to Fair Food and by doing so will give more farmers fair prices, give more asylum seekers jobs and fund more education programs at CERES. 180 people have given $17,500, so it’s only $7,500 to get to our tipping point of $25,000 to make it happen. The scary thing is that If we don’t make the tipping point […]
Why we need more platypuses in our lives. Rob Anderson and The Four Nonnas
Over the last 5 weeks of our Rewiring the food system campaign I’ve written about our farmers, grocery makers, asylum seekers who work at Fair Food, about Food Hosts and customers and all the pieces that make up Fair Food except for the last piece, CERES Environment Park, our mother-organisation. But first I like to talk platypuses and why we […]
The war on milk. Rewiring the Food System update.
What is it about milk straight from the cow that gets people so wound up? From this week anybody providing raw milk for consumption will face a fine of up to $60,000 (in case you were wondering the penalty for distribution of small amounts of the drug “Ice” attracts a $45,000 fine). This weekend as we quietly finish our last […]
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 […]
