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 […]
Mathees’ 10 year homecoming / Footy ends, asparagus begins
Mathees’ ten year homecoming It’s been a big year for Matheeswaran Subramaniam, fondly known as Mathees at the Fair Food warehouse (that’s Mathees on the right moving our warehouse). In the year he bought his first home in Australia he’s also been able to go back to his Sri Lankan home. And right now as you read this, for the first time […]
A walk in Maurie’s gumboots
Maurie knows cutting asparagus is a slog – starting as early as 2am, working by torchlight, walking five kilometres a day in diving boots, cutting 300kgs of asparagus – it’s not for everyone.
Subterranean portent
Each year around the middle of September there’s an awakening down in the swamps of Koo Wee Rup.
