CERES: different & good / Tamil Feasts go on the road
CERES doing different and good In the beginning, back in the early eighties when Brunswick’s textile industry was packing up and heading for China. Back when local businesses were still using the Merri Creek as a sewer. Back when a culture of community mindedness was becoming swamped by a culture of shopping. A small group of people decided to do something different, something good […]
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 […]
Agroforestry’s time / Tamil Feast’s Richman
Agroforestry’s time It’s hard to know why some things get fished out of in-boxes while others, equally worthy of our attention, are left to drift by and wash up in the eddies of the unread. For some deeply unknowable reason this week I found the clickbait of the Victorian Government’s Report from The Independent […]
The outliers and the unloved
It’s taken a crisis to reveal why mother nature’s always made room for the unconventional.
Nirma's Story. Didier Pajoy's Coffee Arrives. Jar up for Crowdsaucing Day.
I want to share Nirma’s story which was posted on New Humans of Australia. Nirma (that’s him up there) is one of four chefs at the hugely popular Tamil Feasts (held at CERES every Monday and Tuesday) and he also works as part of the packing crew at the Fair Food warehouse. I am a Tamil refugee […]
Opium, Billy Tea and Tamil Feasting
So about 200 years ago the British public started getting a taste for tea – it helped clothing factory workers on long shifts stay awake and not get sucked into the steam powered machinery. The Brits bought their tea from the Chinese who had discovered it along with most everything else thousands of years previously. The Chinese […]
