The people are the place
A quiet, hot morning. As I showed two visitors around the East Brunswick site I found myself struggling to explain what CERES is.
Working bee
Over the weekend I was talking to a beekeeper friend expressing my amazement at the extraordinary organisational and logistical skills displayed by a honey bee colony.
In a jam
Wherein Alan, our neighbourhood preserver, suffers a crippling crisis of confidence. Is the new induction stove the end of jam-heaven?
Do something useful
1982 and Brunswick is a dying suburb with a ten acre former rubbish tip overgrown with wild fennel and boxthorn.
Full circle peaches
When I saw the golden clingstones tucked in my Fair Food box this week I smiled and thought to myself – I know these peaches.
The versatile sugar gum
Looking back to the devastation of Victoria’s Mallee country and the windbreaks of the dust bowl, from the comfort of a Fair Wood sugar gum deck.
