Diary runneth over / No box left behind > 2018 Target
There’s so much going on over the next month I had to make a program…… Passata Making Workshop – Sunday 26th February I’m not sure how many tomato saucing devices Monique Miller has at home, but she’d easily be in the highest percentile of sauce equipment ownership in Australia. Monique, in preparation for this year’s 21 Days of Crowdsaucing, […]
Sap Rising: The Complete Urban Farmer. 21 Days of Crowdsaucing
Everything feels political these post-truth days – if you search the phrase “gardening as a political act” you will discover no end of articles talking up vegetable growing as an avenue of resistance. You may even come across “Gardening is Gangsta” a Texan rotary-hoeing rap crew’s call to community gardeners world-wide to opt-out of the financial-military-industrial complex and plant […]
Shop News – Baked zucchini risotto / Embracing Pazoynd Day
Put a Zucchini on Your Neighbour’s Doorstep Day (March 25th) Over the last three years Pazoynd Day has greened-up, matured and filled out to become a tradition, a moment in time where the people of Melbourne clutch a marrow to its collective bosom and then just take it next door. All over the city not […]
Hopeful photos from the heart-land. Crowdsaucing latest
Last week Dori from Tamil Feasts gave us a couple of feast double passes to give away for the two most inspiring and hopeful food photos. The picture above with the rhubarb about to be fermented is from the first of our winners, Elizabeth Long. Here’s Elizabeth’s story….. “On a visit to my mother’s house today I […]
Ben’s best on-farm chicken abattoir / Christmas break
Ben’s best on-farm chicken abattoir Yesterday, I drove out to Taranaki Farm in Woodend to see Ben Falloon and his new on-farm micro-abattoir (that’s it and Ben above). You may remember Ben’s Pozible campaign where eight hundred and fifty people pledged $111,507 supporting Ben’s vision to process his chickens in the most ethical, healthy and humane way he could. Coming up the Taranaki Farm driveway the grass […]
Summer's first tomatoes from a low profile Joe. Robert Larocca's gift of governance.
If ever there was an under-the-radar farmer it’s Joe Valente from Mornington Organics, I’ve known Joe for more than 10 years and as I was writing this I realised I didn’t have a single photo of him. I got on-line and after an hour of fruitless Google searching nothing; no webpage, no Facebook, no twitter, […]
