Fair Wood wins Darebin Pitch IT / How do feel about pet food?
CERES Fair Wood wins Darebin Pitch-IT Thursday was a big night for CERES’ newest social enterprise Fair Wood – our name got called out and now we are extremely grateful recipients of $20,000 in start-up funding from Darebin Council and Melbourne Innovation Centre’s Darebin Pitch-It Competition It’s been a big learning curve ever since architect Paul Haar, the […]
Fairtrade, Max Havelaar and life after Pink Bag. Last Step to Intestinal Heaven
Pink Bag is going and we need some help. Pink Bag is Universal Village’s Fairtrade coffee beans which you might know better as Rhino Coffee – it’s packed in bright pink packaging, hence various expressions commonly heard at the Fair Food warehouse such as “Do you want a Pink Bag?” or “There’s a fresh pot of […]
Our little grocery grows up. Feeling well, insane, but well.
Fourteen years ago when CERES Grocery (known then as CERES Market) opened its doors – or more accurately its gate, it was like so many things at CERES – a triumph of optimism and enthusiasm over common-sense and business planning. There was no market testing, no SWOT analysis, no unique value proposition, nobody knew how […]
Fair Food's Pear to Peer Network, A better name for the Bowel Buddy Box
I was talking this week to John Mustafa from Petty’s Orchard in Templestowe about their season. With only the Lady Williams and persimmons to come John and his father, Sam, are coming to the end of picking now. John says it’s been a bit of a light year for apples but there have been plenty of […]
