Social Enterprising

On July 1st, eleven years ago at our old warehouse in Beavers Road Northcote, Fair Food received its very first order.
Say momo

This week on our own dumpling odyssey, we began selling fresh momos from the much-loved Himalaya Tibetan Tent.
Lessons in Currawong

I look up from my boots and my eyes widen. Overnight it seems like someone’s set off a golden-bomb – all along the creek bank the silver wattles are in glorious bloom.
Slow rise

Years later, unaware of the history that came before him, Alex Iordanov found himself working in the kitchen of the CERES Grocery Cafe and dreaming about starting a little bakery in the Grocery kitchen.
Growth rings

Like Baltic pine there are lots of other native timbers we use every day but don’t talk about – Merbau from South East Asian rain forests, Cumaru from South American jungles, even our own old growth Mountain Ash.
Full circle

Late Wednesday night a text comes through from CERES farm manager, Meg Stewart, there’s a fire at CERES. Another follows with a photo taken from Blythe Street showing an ominous glow through the trees.