The Retelling / Honouring Nirma
The Retelling Over the last seven years Plastic Free July’s were largely the unfashionable provenance of a few well-meaning but deeply suspect folk likely to ride bamboo framed bicycles or be the evangelistic owners of a home biodigester. This Plastic Free July, however, has been unlike any other; since ABC’s War on Waste, the supermarket plastic bag bans and the […]
Big win for small farmers / Dream job at CERES Farm
Big win for small farmers The indefatigable Tammi Jonas, President of The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), has been celebrating a win for Victorian small-scale pastured pig and poultry farmers this past fortnight. You might remember late last year our State Government was planning changes to The Farming Zone which would have required very small […]
It’s cold this week / Joe’s Farm Gate
It’s cold this week It’s been a cold week in Victoria. On Tuesday The Age reported it was the coldest June day in 25 years and as is custom at Fair Food during the coldest part of the year we acknowledge our farmers frozen fingers and chilled extremities. Early this morning over in the Schulz Organic […]
February rich pickings for the thinking farmer
February – rich pickings for the thinking farmer February is a busy time for most farmers and gardeners but if you can get somebody to cover your zucchini harvest, water your microgreens and bottle your kombucha then this month there is some seriously inspiring fruit to fill your metaphorical apple picking bag! Here’s a taster….. Saturday Feb 3rd CERES Joe’s Market Garden Tour […]
Feels like it could be a bit of a big year
This week on our Facebook feed you might have seen Lily D’Ambrosio, state minister for energy, environment and climate change, drop by the Fair Food warehouse to announce a Sustainability Victoria hybrid grant/loan for three projects; – building a vertical microgreens teaching farm – recycling a cool room destined for landfill from our previous warehouse […]
CERES Fair Wood – that’s right, WOOD / CERES Harvest Festival
CERES Fair Wood – that’s right “wood” Two years ago while dropping off some fruit at the Fair Food warehouse, feijoa grower and award-winning architect Paul Haar cannily planted an idea. He asked if CERES could do something like Fair Food but with small scale agroforesters and timber – i.e. CERES Fair Wood? My first reaction […]
