Jen Osborne – Produce Trader / New Mobile Website
Jen Osborne – Produce Trader About nine years ago at the Melbourne Markets, Harvest Organic, a wholesale agent unexpectedly went bust owing farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars. For those left holding the bag it was a bitter blow and for a time a mood of suspicion and mistrust hung over the market. Early one […]
Tentatively & with trepidation here we go… / A new Good Gut Box?
Tentatively & with trepidation here we go…. Sometime after lunchtime on Monday, that’s tomorrow, the wonderful coding crew at the Open Food Network will flick the “on” switch to our new mobile-friendly webshop. The great thing about the new shop is that it works particularly well on mobiles and tablets – so no more fumbling around clicking the wrong thing and pushing and […]
Finals time. All in the eye of the beer-holder.
Footy finals time – so much energy directed into fewer and fewer teams until there becomes such a burning hot focus on two groups of young men, so supremely blessed with foot skills and enviable strength through the hips, that Melbourne seems absolutely fit to burst. And then suddenly, it’s all over and the strong […]
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 […]
There's coffee & there's coffee & there's coffee. Set box price rise.
Alex and I have been searching for local coffee roasters who have a strong connection to coffee growers. This week we drank a lot of coffee and talked a lot about coffee and learned a bit about the coffee trade in East Timor. Bec and Nikki from Wild Timor Coffee and Linda fromWithOneBean came to the Fair […]
Making friends can really shake your life up. Care for your box, care for the world.
When I started researching coffee I heard a lot of talk about cupping. It sounded mysterious; I first imagined cupping was similar to the Chinese medicine practice but with hot latte glasses suctioned to the taster’s body containing different coffee beans and then by a process of infusion he or she came up with a score for each batch. […]
