A home for Matthew / You complete me Urban Farmer
A home for Matthew Matthew’s journey from Tehran to Melbourne began when his workplace supervisor found a transistor radio in the cab of his truck. To understand the surreal seriousness of Matthew’s situation we need to go back to the time of the Iranian Revolution. In 1979 as Iran lurched from secular society to Islamic […]
Mal and Ben good wood men / Congrats Nicky, welcome Kelly
Mal and Ben good wood men The big cold front rolled in this afternoon. The Bureau says the temperature has dropped from 18C to 12C though they reckon it actually feels like 6.7C. Which seems like as good a moment as any to talk firewood. Agroforesters Mal and Ben came to the Fair […]
Alex Podolinsky – Pattern & Flow / Exciting Dirt
Alex Podolinsky – Pattern and Flow Growing up in 1930’s Germany Alex Podolinsky had a dream about a place with a giant yellow sun. Later as a refugee escaping World War II Alex Podolinsky came to the sunny land he saw in his dream and for the rest of his long life witnessed every single sunrise and sunset. If you’ve […]
What took us so long? / Best hospo gig ever?
What took us so long? Early this morning I was over in the park walking Jessie, our kelpie. The remnants of a kid’s party lay scattered on the ground around a picnic table. I picked up the foil lolly wrappers, the empty plastic creaming soda bottle and a half dozen plastic cups. Passing by, my neighbour, Alan […]
Upcoming field trip / Fair Wood needs a home
An upcoming field trip Kids come to Ceres and learn how to see webs of life in a bucket of water they pull from the old dam or in the handfuls of soil they dig from the market garden. They learn that the azolla, the tadpoles, the mosquito fish, the worms, the millipedes, the fungi, the vegetables and […]
Another kind of sugar / Urban Farmer dream job
Another kind of sugar When I was seven years old growing up in rural New Zealand my mum flew to Brisbane to help my uncle Jeff, whose Gold Coast nursery business was going down the gurgler. In those days getting on a plane was a really big thing. We drove Mum up to Auckland airport […]
