Cometh the spring, cometh the spear. Job going at Fair Food.
The almond trees are in blossom at Honey Lane, broad beans are in flower at Joe’s Market Garden and the loquats on the tree across the road from my house are beginning to yellow up. We have a wild-seeded loquat tree in our front yard, it’s quite large now but the ring tail possums that […]
Ian and his intense kiwi / Beetroot & Parsnip Fortnight
Like seasonal clockwork feijoas drift out of our fruit bowls as kiwis appear. Hoddles Creek kiwi grower, Ian Cuming, spent the beginning of May with five highly motivated young backpackers (three Germans & two South Africans) picking his 15 tonne kiwi crop in two weeks versus the usual four. When they finished Ian left a couple of kiwi pallets out of his […]
Spiced pears in wine / Ultimate Mondays & Fridays
We’ve been doing next day/5 day deliveries for almost two months. It’s completely changed everything (well a lot of things). When you have a schedule/lifestyle that could be generously described as agile or fluid being able to order for the next day of the week rather than a weekly cutoff is similar to gaining freedom from tyranny (ok […]
Veggie Pickers Week / July at Joe's
Oooooh it’s cold. Saturday’s frosty kale pic above from Joe’s Market Garden makes me think of all the people who harvest our vegetables at this time of year. Harvesting fruit is different; before the cold hits all our apples, pears and kiwi that will get us through to stone fruit season have been picked and safely stored away. Many veggies however, […]
What farmers see / Knowing nettles better?
What farmers see…. There are some magical parts of the growing season that only the farmer gets to see – I’ve been saving this picture since January – Jenny Indian sent it in from her farm in Stanley because she wanted to share the amazing sight of her chestnut trees in full flower. Jenny says if you […]
Chestnut & pumpkin soup / Chestnuts & cool season jazz
Whenever I think chestnuts up drifts Moonlight in Vermont. Frank Sinatra sang it on Come Fly With Me, although everybody from Ray Charles to Nana Mouskouri have done their own version. The funny thing about Moonlight in Vermont is, apart from the fact that it contains no rhymes and all the verses are haiku’s, there is no […]
