The beguiling smile of Robert Pekin
Robert Pekin’s madly infectious smile has the kind of power to convince you to become deeply involved in a new social movement you’ve never heard of, adopt a so-far-out-of-left field idea that gets you simultaneously excited & terrified or has you sign onto a scheme so optimistically crazy that just might work….and possibly get you arrested. […]
A lesson from Mo, broad beans with Joe and a word with Eric
A lesson from Mo! It’s been a big week for Fair Food’s production supervisor, Mohammed Nabaei. When Doug, a journalist from The Thomson Reuters Foundation, visited in August to do an article on Fair Food nobody really gave it a second thought. But when the article was picked up by the South China Morning Post nobody was […]
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 […]
Rowe Morrow – see her before she gets big / Fair Wood – what Pete’s been up to
Rosemary Morrow I’m not sure why Rosemary Morrow isn’t better known, her life story would make an incredibly watchable Netflix drama. For the past 40 years Rowe Morrow (that’s her above in red) has been teaching Permaculture to tens of thousands of people in shattered communities across the world’s warzones and disaster areas. Perhaps the lack of recognition […]
In the shed putting eggs in boxes / Robyn Clayfield – coming to CERES
In the shed putting eggs in boxes Being a farmer can be a very Instagramable profession, but this pic is actually what a lot of farming looks like – you in a shed, at a desk, packing eggs into boxes. There’s also the pic of you in the van bringing eggs to drop around town, the […]
A team definitely worth following / Happy soil = happy life
A team definitely worth following About a year ago I wrote about, CERES Education Group Manager, Lorna Pettifer, being selected for The Premiers Sustainability Award for Education. Over the weekend Lorna’s work was recognised again becoming Environment Education Victoria’s Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year – (that’s Lorna on the left with Karen Jones from Port Phillip Ecocentre). Now […]
