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 […]
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 […]
