Vegetable Rising
As Meg’s rouge de marmande and yellow cherry pear seedlings reach skyward to the spring sun a corresponding urge to garden rises among the good people of Melbourne.
A tall green saviour rises in our hour of need. The votes are in. The People have spoken. The winner is….
In a world weary of silverbeet bakes, in a time of seasonally reduced produce choices, in a place crying out for something, anything different to cook this week. One vegetable will rise up from the dirt to set a people free and make dinnertime more exciting than it has been for a while. Oh, it […]
Born a free ranging man. Boring solution, such a lot of joy.
How’s this for an office? This is a picture of Dan Green’s egg farm in Lower Carrajung, South Gippsland. You may know Dan through his eggs, which he calls, Dan’s Real Free Range Eggs . I’m telling Dan’s story because I saw in the news this week a story about a free range egg farm being fined $300,000 for not […]
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 […]
Fair Food News for Spring: Fava Festa, Farming, Feasting & More
Click here to read our Fair Food newsletter for Spring, and more about Farmer Joe and Vince’s infamous broadbeans.
Farmers are humans too. Deep in the heart of CERES.
Over the past few years an idealised image of a kind of hero farmer has emerged – typically it’s an earthy yet evolved being in a pair of weathered overalls and chequered shirt gathering colourful heirloom produce for farmers market stands and veggie box schemes. These tough, gentle folk are often credited with having a sort […]
