Fresh pistachios – a rare treat indeed
Fresh pistachios – a rare treat indeed Shane O’Dea remembers that when they first started growing pistachios people said Wahring was too far South and the trees wouldn’t bear. But Jenny, Shane’s sister, did her research and discovered during the 1970’s the CSIRO trialled pistachios about 80kms from the O’Dea’s farm, confirming they were viable […]
Speaking to Jason and selling plums
Speaking to Jason and selling plums These summer holidays in Perth have fostered a kind of existential hopelessness. Firstly, when I hear at beach that the sunscreen we have been so well-trained to slap onto our family’s skin is poisoning the coral reefs it creates a paralysing moral choice between melanoma and marine ecosystem destruction? Secondly, […]
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts / Fair Food Job Closing
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts Last week in a return-of-the-light antidote to mid-winter, post-election, extinction crisis despair I wrote about the first Murnong planting at Joe’s Garden, the CERES staff solstice bonfire and NUCA’s (Neighbours United for Climate Action) first meeting. I also wrote about an eight season calendar that I’d fallen in love with which I couldn’t quite fit in….until […]
Tuesday is Flower Day
Claire from Cherry Road Flower Farm in Red Hill is a regenerative flower farmer growing spray free, seasonal bunches of cosmos, zinnias, daffodils, tulips and snapdragons.
Kale crisis latest. So much at brewing at Fair Food we're fit to burst.
If you were worried about the imminent collapse of an unregulated Chinese shadow banking system or a looming Wall St crash created by US Fed money printing or even European zombie banks dragging us into the next GFC – forget about it! There’s a kale crisis – yes you read right a kale crisis! No, I […]
