Slow rise

Years later, unaware of the history that came before him, Alex Iordanov found himself working in the kitchen of the CERES Grocery Cafe and dreaming about starting a little bakery in the Grocery kitchen.
Growth rings

Like Baltic pine there are lots of other native timbers we use every day but don’t talk about – Merbau from South East Asian rain forests, Cumaru from South American jungles, even our own old growth Mountain Ash.
The opposite of screen time

Since opening, Fair Food has contributed 100% of our profits to CERES School of Nature and Climate helping over 1 million students learn hands-on ways we can take care of the Earth.
Pressing together

If all this rings a bell deep inside you, then it’s time to get your picking crew together and bring your olives, your neighbour’s or your whole neighbourhood’s olives in for pressing.
Rake or tub?

Community harvests of olives and other fruits have been spreading across Australia with the wonderful effect of building community and preventing food waste at the same time. And it’s happening this weekend at CERES!
A big tree and a new understory

Five years on and the clearing Joe left is slowly being filled by a diverse new understory of farmers, teachers, artists, cooks, volunteers, children, weed-daters and eaters of all kinds.