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 […]
A software barn-raising. Consider the loquat.
When Fair Food first started I thought that all anybody could want was a mixed fruit and veg box and the only question could be whether it was small, medium or large. I mean I liked shopping this way, why wouldn’t everybody else? I have been learning ever since and Fair Food has been changing how […]
The supermarket and the supplier. The man who honey-coated Melbourne.
Recently I was talking to the rep of a grocery maker about her experience selling products to Coles (I won’t name her for obvious reasons). Anyway she was telling me that if Coles decided they’d stop selling one of her products she’d be charged about $15,000 to delete the line. “You get charged to stop selling an item?” I […]
Fair Food's Pear to Peer Network, A better name for the Bowel Buddy Box
I was talking this week to John Mustafa from Petty’s Orchard in Templestowe about their season. With only the Lady Williams and persimmons to come John and his father, Sam, are coming to the end of picking now. John says it’s been a bit of a light year for apples but there have been plenty of […]
Dan O'Farrell Sprout Farmer. Asparagus Rhyme Challenge.
In an unassuming refrigerated shipping container beside the Fair Food warehouse, trays and trays of sprouts grow under lights, tightly packed together along two rows of shelves. Dan O’Farrell is a farmer, a sprout farmer (that’s him up there chewing on a pea sprout). And though his farm is only the size of an average bedroom […]
An emerging passata groundswell. Khoo calls in for Coburg country cook-up.
So last week out of the Fair Food Zeitgeist the idea of a crowdsaucing day emerged. In the days following 146 of you emailed to say something along the lines of, I’ve been thinking the same thing and I’m in. Now ours is not to question why we are suddenly and inexplicably drawn to sauce […]
