April/May Newsletter is Out!
Saturday, May 5th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
One of our well-loved farmer retires, ‘Where to’ for CFF & Food Host Workshops in May! Read more…
Watts garlic girls shine by Natalee Ward
Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Originally Published by Weekly Times, 8 June 2011. MADELINE Watts has turned her back on convention and now knows just where she’s headed. In 2008, Madeline Watts faced the same problem thousands of Year 12 students face at the end of the year. “I did really well at school and was under pressure to use [...]
Attack of the Killer Pumpkins!
Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 11:52 am
One thing that struck me when I first moved to Australia was the antipodean love for pumpkins. Avocados, mangoes, bananas all fit in with the exotic picture of Oz in my mind, but pumpkins did not. Pumpkins seemed to be in anything at anytime..slice them on pizza, put them in a salad, roast them, mash [...]
CERES Fair Food Employment Opportunity
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Position Description CERES Fair Food Delivery Driver Background to CERES CERES is an environmental community organisation in East Brunswick. It is located on 4 hectares of land on the banks of the Merri Creek and has become an icon of locally based education and action on environmental and social-justice issues. Projects encompassed within CERES include [...]
Fresh food not-for-profit hard hit after Sunday Age report
Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Freelance journalist Matthew da Silva writes… Based in inner-north Melbourne’s Brunswick East, CERES is a popular not-for-profit environment education centre and public farm that hosts farmers’ markets and sells weekly fruit and vegetable boxes to locals. But after a report earlier this month by The Sunday Age on levels of lead contamination at the Centre for Education and Research [...]
The Real Dirt on CERES
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Original Released March 16th 2012 What’s the worst thing that can happen to an environment park that educates kids and grows food? A contamination scare that breaks in the city’s most trusted paper. Appearing on page three of The Sunday Age, March 4th edition, just the week before CERES Organic Farm was given the all [...]
Happy Feaster Service Update
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 pm
The holidays are just around the corner and we have some important news regarding deliveries… All deliveries will run AS PER USUAL, so you won’t miss a beat with your grocery orders. However! No bread deliveries Tuesday 10th April. Our wonderful loaf bakers (aka: Loafer Bread) will be closed Easter Tuesday the 10th of April. [...]
Fair Food Almanac – March 2012 Newsletter
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Our March 2012 Newsletter is out! ‘Name that Van’ Competition Winner announced, ‘Outside the Box’ Episodes 1 and 2 launched, news from our farmers, new food hosts, CERES workshops announced, CERES Harvest Festival is jam packed to say the least… to read more, click here.
Roast your grapes
Thursday, March 15th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
I had hoped to upload this one last week as I had some recipes directly relating to what I did with the end of my Mixed Medium box – but I was thwarted by the full moon – but I’m sure the people who know me are truly tired of me blaming everything on the [...]
Autumn is here!
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Autumn is here! The mornings are getting a bit cooler and the sun is going to bed just that little bit earlier every day. But on the bright side of the cabbage patch, the range of produce around this harvest time is bountiful and beautiful. What’s going to be rotating through the boxes this season? [...]
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