Basil, tomatoes, zucchini and a bumper crop of cherries, maybe. Rewiring the food system – you really delivered!
Lately, everything we’ve been missing over winter and spring seems to be announcing itself to the season; check out CERESfarmer, Katherine’s, shiny basil crop above, Labertouche’s cherry tomatoes are arriving next week, Craig and Shelley Heppell will be dropping off their new zucchinis at the warehouse tomorrow and there’ll be cherries, yes cherries, in almost all of […]
Happiness is like a sandstone. Free tomatoes for Cup Day. Late midday Monday order deadline.
I was reading something in the paper this morning about happiness, it came from a famous study that had followed a group of Harvard men for 75 years measuring every aspect of their lives. The conclusion of over three quarters of century’s scientific effort was that happiness is not related to a successful career or high intelligence […]
Crowdsaucing – 1 week to get your tomatoes. Jenny & Steve's Spanish Reds.
If you’ve been promising yourself that this is the year you’ll make passata, it is not too late, but it almost is. There’s one more week to get your tomatoes for Crowdsaucing Day and sauce it up like they do at the Fitzroy Community Food Centre (that’s them above and yes, they’re hosting a Crowdsaucing if you’d like […]
Nathan's tomatoes now on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day.
The new Crowdsaucing website is up and the five tonnes of organic saucing tomatoes Nathan Free has been growing up at Lake Boga this summer are on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day Saturday April 30th. We’ve set the cut-off date to secure your saucing tomatoes on midnight Sunday 24th April. And with only 500 boxes […]
It's been a big a week in sauce. Turn right to Dench.
As the sun went down on Saturday’s first Crowdsaucing Day a tired, happy sauce-stained sigh of relief and a little disbelief could be heard from various Fair Food staff around the city. Probably none more so than organiser, Monique Miller, who on Friday morning an hour before tomatoes were supposed to be despatched wasn’t sure whether […]
Trying to be at one with weeds. Win a uBiome test and see what's going on in your gut!
My hands and forearms are a painful mess of little cuts – I can see black thorns dotted all under my inflamed skin. We’ve been away for the summer and “the blackberry situation” at our place has gotten away from us. This weekend I’ve been slashing and grubbing out blackberry, we’ll spray the regrowth with organic pine-oil to knock it back, get the cows in to graze the flush […]
