Last weekend while frying up a couple of eggs for his noodles our eldest son was surprised to crack open not a double-yoker, not a triple-yoker but a quadruple-yoker! We all thought this was a pretty special thing, however, at the time none of us had an inkling that what had just happened in our frypan was an astronomically unlikely event.

Over the weekend you may have found a surprise lemon in your Fair Food box with an accompanying note. At CERES we love the Earth and we also love saving lemons (and food in general) from going to landfill.

Not everyone knows Fair Food is a social enterprise and that each year a hundred percent of our profits go to support CERES’ mission helping people fall in the love with the Earth. A couple of weeks ago we worked out that since Fair Food opened it had contributed over two million dollars towards this mission.

This week the front rolling off the Southern Ocean delivered hard frosts and some of our coldest days in years. In this freezing week I think about the people bringing us our food and say a little thanks to their hands.

At the Fair Food warehouse there’s a continuing collective effort to reduce the amount of plastics coming into our warehouse and ending up in landfill.

Outwardly the visiting tree farmers are not particularly upbeat nor are they in any way dour but there is a solidity about them – perhaps it’s their ability to envision cycles of time that most of us will never be able to see.