Upcoming field trip / Fair Wood needs a home
An upcoming field trip Kids come to Ceres and learn how to see webs of life in a bucket of water they pull from the old dam or in the handfuls of soil they dig from the market garden. They learn that the azolla, the tadpoles, the mosquito fish, the worms, the millipedes, the fungi, the vegetables and […]
Recycled Electric Kinetic Playspace Update
Recycled Electric Kinetic Playspace Update This time last year the Ceres Recycled Electric Kinetic Playspace got a guernsey in the Pick My Project competition. Inspired by a chaotically beautiful community-built playground at the St Louis Museum, the Ceres Playspace was workshopped into existence with groups of local kids – often employing giant native insects loaned from Melbourne Museum as conversation starters. […]
Another kind of sugar / Urban Farmer dream job
Another kind of sugar When I was seven years old growing up in rural New Zealand my mum flew to Brisbane to help my uncle Jeff, whose Gold Coast nursery business was going down the gurgler. In those days getting on a plane was a really big thing. We drove Mum up to Auckland airport […]
World Bee Day & The Fake Honey Saga
World Bee Day & The Fake Honey Saga Monday was World Bee Day (said quickly takes on a meaning I don’t think the organisers intended) and there was a plethora of stories about the state of the world’s bee populations, domestic and wild. Curiously I didn’t come across anything about last year’s fake honey scandal […]
Bogong moth puttanesca / Job at Fair Food
Bogong moth puttanesca Last night when Antony Green revealed that the nation had collectively chosen to buy a negatively-geared townhouse in Airport West over saving the Great Barrier Reef I began imagining my family’s off-grid future. First thing next week we would sell-up, leave all those greedy people to their capital gains exemptions […]
Time to do … something / CERES Winter Solstice
Time to do….something If you feel like bringing on an existential crisis this week then have a read of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service’s (IPBES) media release. The report confirms something we all know deep down – that at an ever-accelerating rate we are hunting, fishing, chopping down, burning, farming, mining, paving […]
