When fungi calls your name / Joe’s Farm Raiser / Vote 1 CERES
When fungi calls your name What kind of mushrooms do marine biologists like best? Oyster mushrooms of course! (Ouch! I’m so sorry) John Ford (that’s him in the pic) holds a PhD in Marine Biology and has spent his career reducing the environmental impact of fishing. Lately however John’s lifelong passion for fungi has been taking him […]
Reconnecting with asparagus / Joe’s Farm-Raiser Party
Reconnecting with asparagus This week if you take some time to quiet your mind and find a place where the edges of human & universal consciousness overlap, you may just be able to feel the subterranean vibration of asparagus crowns awakening in the swamps of Koo Wee Rup. And it’s about this time of year I feel […]
Hong Kong's Last Farmers / No FOMO at Joe's
Hong Kong’s Last Farmers You can tell Becky Au Hei-man’s mother has done a lot of hard work; waving us into her farmers market stall her deeply sun-browned face seems young and old at the same time. Rearranging produce as she shows us around around her lean body is all efficiency. Becky (that’s her cracking herself […]
Aquaponics farm looking for new home / Next-Day-Delivery debuts
Aquaponics farm looking for a new home The magic of opening up the poly tunnel doors onto a sea of aquaponic greens never goes away. Built six years ago in the car park beside the Fair Food warehouse the 120 square metre commercial aquaponics system will be growing its last coriander bunch when Fair Food moves to its new Preston home in […]
Eat at Joe’s
For years I’ve watched people wander off the Merri Creek swing bridge, round the corner and stop dead in the middle of the bike path, mesmerised by a scene out of time and place.
Mushin’s magnificent millipede
On Friday while picking up some tomato seedlings from CERES Propagation I spy the unmistakable red bearded figure of Steve Mushin creating some kind of metal hooped sculpture up on the hill. This vision can only mean one thing.
