Farming – cold, wet, hot and boring – but I love it.
Farming is awful – the weather’s terrible, it’s cold and wet or really hot, it’s boring – but I love it and I wouldn’t do anything else. Katherine Gillet ,Two and Five’s farm manager is beautifully honest about her job, The one day a week I’m in the office I really hate it. Two and Five Farm just north of Geelong […]
The Practical Beekeeper. Wide Asparagusso Sea
The long cold winter had Benedict Hughes worried his bees would run out of honey and starve before the Spring came. But last week as he peered into one of his hives in an Ivanhoe backyard Benedict breathed a sigh of relief when he saw new season’s honey flowing. The worry has now faded as Benedict is suddenly busy answering one or two call-outs a day to collect swarms – […]
Dan O'Farrell Sprout Farmer. Asparagus Rhyme Challenge.
In an unassuming refrigerated shipping container beside the Fair Food warehouse, trays and trays of sprouts grow under lights, tightly packed together along two rows of shelves. Dan O’Farrell is a farmer, a sprout farmer (that’s him up there chewing on a pea sprout). And though his farm is only the size of an average bedroom […]
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 […]
Beans at Joe's. Bees in Pip.
If you’ve ridden or walked past the bottom end of Joe’s Market Garden on the Merri Creek lately you would have seen a large patch of broad beans waving in the breeze. This is our first crop since our farmer mentor and seed saver, Joe Garita, died earlier this year aged 89. If there’s anything […]
Spring Newsletter Hot Off The Press
The CERES Fair Food Spring Almanac (Oct/Nov) is now out!!! You Are What You Eat, Christmas Hampers, Melbourne Cup Lucky Draw, Events and much, much more…
