If ever there was a week to eat tart. The sound of good gut music.
Loafer Bread’s Andrea Brabazon bakes these delicate pastries, slices, cakes and biscuits and lays them out in a simple wood and glass cabinet at her bakery in North Fitzroy. In the way of an artist Andrea takes simple organic ingredients; flour, butter, eggs and sugar and through a mixture of finely honed skill and magical pâtissiering she creates this exquisite edible exhibition – not just once a year but every day. […]
Unglut your gut for 2015 with Pat & Dr Chan. Fair Food is back in town next week.
This year we are doing our 2nd annual Unglut Your Gut Challenge. It’s a month long, post-festive season good gut restoration. Last year more than 300 households took up the challenge and this year, with the help of our friends at Pat’s Veg and Dr Chan’s feeling good ferments, we’re doing it again. To take the challenge there’s […]
Putting sultanas into very small boxes isn't easy. Ladies & gentlemen, start your microbiomes.
This week on their Mildura farm Peter and Helen Kamavissis (that’s them above) are busy harvesting and packing their green menindee grapes which we’ll be putting in most of our set boxes (although not in our Small Mixed Box, if you’re keen you can get some from theFruit and Veg Section). Every year from January to March during the grape and melon season all kinds of people flood into Mildura […]
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 […]
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 […]
