A cornucopia of digression. Thoughts/feelings?
Week two on The Stairway to Intestinal Heaven (aka the Good Gut Challenge) and going without sugar and refined carbohydrates has sent my senses to a new level of awareness – I can’t think straight yet I’ve never seen things more clearly.. Withdrawal has revealed a kind of seventh sense that instantly evaluates the sugar content of any […]
Hema & The Big Salad. Unglut Week 3. More bonus Summer reading..
Hema (that’s her above) is back at Fair Food. You may remember Hema, she shared Fair Food’s customer service role with Kate. Hema came back last week after being away for 8 months on maternity leave raising her new son, Ivan. About two years ago Hema was the first person from our asylum seeker and newly arrived worker program to move […]
Vince & Em's Zucchini Achievement. Unglut Week 2. Bonus Summer reading.
Last week, after coming back from the Christmas break, I caught up with CERES farmer Vince Fitipaldi at the warehouse (that’s him above). With such a dry start to Summer I feared I would be returning to a drought stunted field. Vince, however, seemed unusually animated and let mention that he had a few nice […]
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 […]
Say Goodbye to Kale. The 2016 Unglut Your Gut Challenge.
Went too hard at work wind ups? Ate and drank things you’d never usually put in your body,and in worrying quantities? What about your stress levels? By the time Christmas rolled around were you already strung out from the end-of-year rush at work, traumatised by Christmas shopping, or mentally and emotionally “just hanging on” around […]
Come away from the light now. Cabbage Heart of Darkness Part II
It’s been two weeks since we closed for the Christmas break but it feels much longer. Wherever we may have been, whatever we have done, whatever has happened to us it’s time to come back to the everyday. Back to our roles as workers, students, volunteers, community members. And, unless they have been truly rotten, this is the […]
