Renewing vows with Joe Sgro. Is this a bloat I feel within?
I’ve been buying vegetables from Joe Sgro since 2001 when CERES started its Organic Market (that’s him above). I pledged then that CERES would always stick with him and he promised he would always take care of us. At some stage of every year since we repeat a version of this conversation and it’s like we are renewing […]
Two lights from under a tomato bushel. Re-introducing the Medium Veg Only.
In the beginning there were a couple of young CERES farmers. One day while they were out farmering they came across an empty polytunnel and thought, “Yea verily, that empty polytunnel would make a splendid place to grow our heirloom tomato seedlings.” And so it came to pass and all who laid eyes upon their tomato seedlings […]
A cornucopia of digression. Thoughts/feelings?
Week two on The Stairway to Intestinal Heaven (aka the Good Gut Challenge) and going without sugar and refined carbohydrates has sent my senses to a new level of awareness – I can’t think straight yet I’ve never seen things more clearly.. Withdrawal has revealed a kind of seventh sense that instantly evaluates the sugar content of any […]
Marg and Jason's 30th Apple Anniversary. Not so sweet sugar-free.
Thirty years ago Jason and Marg (that’s them with some orchard visitors) came to live in their “green desert’ – 96 acres of dairy pasture with barely a tree (5 macrocarpas says Marg) just outside Warragul. With the early sparks of Permaculture firing their imaginations and the seed they’d strategically collected from street trees around Canberra, […]
Stairway to Intestinal Heaven. Summer Cabbage Reading Part Five
Last night my friend’s 40th birthday party marked the end of a chocolate and alcohol abundant, sleep and exercise poor summer. I’m feeling sluggish, heavier and getting out of bed for a morning ride has turned into pulling up the doona. But from this morning and for the entire month of February I am embarking on […]
What are you up to on Fat Tuesday?
So next week on the 9th February it’s Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, which we know better as Mardi Gras. Pancake Day happens on the eve of Ash Wednesday, the first day of the 40 day Lent fast. In many places there is an accompanying Fat Thursday where literally you eat all […]
