How Now Dairy – Cow-centred farming/ Love Stories and Dedications
How Now Dairy – Cow-centred farming Cathy Palmer and Les Sandles are doing something at their Wunghnu dairy farm, their industry said couldn’t be done. They’re milking cows while keeping the calves with their mothers. It sounds pretty simple but it goes directly against dairy farming orthodoxy and is shaking people’s ideas up about what’s possible when comes to […]
Lessons from a supermarket tomato
In the 80’s and 90’s Coles and Woolies’ dominated the grocery market and fruit and veg got very boring. Epitomised by the industrial tomato – it was the supermarket produce buyer’s holy grail.
Produce anxiety
Like we do in other essential industries, we need to nurture the the new growers who will one day feed us. And while the government has its role to play, we as eaters have ours too.
Worm time
At the end of the year when all the pressures of work and family collide sometimes the best place to go is underground. This is worm time.
Gleaning the columns
In 2002, while working at CERES Grocery, I made a produce ordering spreadsheet in Excel; a simple list of fruit and veg with a few columns.
Love and trust
On Friday Georgia and Roni from the Community Grocer, a not-for-profit that runs six super affordable weekly produce markets across Melbourne came for a visit to the Fair Food warehouse.