Alex Podolinsky – Pattern & Flow / Exciting Dirt

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Alex Podolinsky – Pattern and Flow   Growing up in 1930’s Germany Alex Podolinsky had a dream about a place with a giant yellow sun. Later as a refugee escaping World War II Alex Podolinsky came to the sunny land he saw in his dream and for the rest of his long life witnessed every single sunrise and sunset. If you’ve […]

Dry. The green gauntlet is well and truly taken up.

For the past month we’ve been up and down from our place in Fish Creek.  It’s been a beautiful South Gippsland spring; cold enough to have a fire at night and hot enough in the day to have to put on a sunhat.   But it’s dry – on the bus down from Melbourne the other day […]

Soil – it's quite important. Crowdsaucing/sourcing. Em's pop-up produce.

So unlike World International Soup Week which we launched last month, the 2015 International Year of Soils is an actual officially UN sanctioned thing run by the FAO. As far as farmable soils go there’s not actually that much land on our planet we can use for farming and when you think we’ve already turned about a third of that […]