Joe’s Market Garden FarmRaiser / Green Drought

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Joe’s Market Garden FarmRaiser Yesterday a group of visitors from ORI Co-op came down to visit Joe’s Market Garden and take in the Saturday Farmgate.  It was a beautiful scene; a group of regular veggie shoppers were gathered around the fire bin chatting, sipping coffee, breathing in wood smoke mixed with the smell of soil […]

The produce and the people / Urban farming kids

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The produce and the people Today I was taking pleasure in a wheelbarrow full of a dark, moist chocolatey compost; a  miracle of microbiological transmogrification. I’m no musician or gifted cook, but I can make a pretty good compost (it’s possibly genetic; my dad is well known for his heaps). Anyway, I was admiring the compost because Alan, our neighbour’s, […]

A lesson from Mo, broad beans with Joe and a word with Eric

A lesson from Mo

A lesson from Mo! It’s been a big week for Fair Food’s production supervisor, Mohammed Nabaei.   When Doug, a journalist from The Thomson Reuters Foundation, visited in August to do an article on Fair Food nobody really gave it a second thought.  But when the article was picked up by the South China Morning Post nobody was […]

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  […]

CERES Fair Wood – that’s right, WOOD / CERES Harvest Festival

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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 […]

Virtuous eggy circle / And then our fingers brushed in the oxalis

Virtuous eggy circle  Each Wednesday when he brings his eggs in from Abundance Farm in Raglan just North West of Ballarat to the Fair Food warehouse in Preston, Alex also collects our green waste to take back to feed his chooks.  All that not-quite-right fruit and veg that didn’t make the grade goes up the Western Freeway to make more eggs […]