In times of trouble we seek sanctuary and in weeks like these CERES, more than ever, feels like a Mother Tree.

So much happening around CERES during this wintery weather! From firewood and awards for Fair Wood, to our waste-free beetroot curry workshop, and Joes Garden Feathery Fundraiser (complete with bird-themed dress up) at the farm gate. Busy season!

My own failed veg box experience was years of composting the limp beetroot and yellowing cabbage my family didn’t eat and feeling a kind of “veg box shame”.

At this year’s Harvest Festival as the passata makers wiped the last sauce spatters away, Rosa Voto and musicians, Sancori, took centre stage to perform Stories of Harvest from Southern Italy to a gathering of harvest revellers primed to let loose.

This time of year when feijoa season comes around I think of one person – Paul Haar from Archie’s Creek. Grower, architect, innovator.

A year ago our friend and workmate Mo Nabaie got his front wheel stuck in a tram track, landed face first on Plenty Road and lost three of his front teeth.