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 […]
A Big Tree Falls on Merri Creek
A couple of days ago Joe Garita passed away, he was 89 years old. You might know Joe from the broad bean seeds we gave out last year. Joe has been growing those broad beans in his Coburg market garden since 1945. On that small piece of land on the banks of the Merri Creek […]
Ecostore Sugar Cane Packaging, uBiome Contest Winner, Super Cheap Tomatoes & A Job Going at Fair Food
Packaging is such a vexed issue, we struggle with it at Fair Food all the time. Last Monday ecostore took a big packaging leap forward replacing their plastic bottles with bottles made from sugar cane. The bottles don’t breakdown but are made to be recycled with regular plastics so the material can be reused again and […]