Tito Jackson and the Bacterial Big Band / What’s in the box?
In case you missed last Thursday’s newsletter our annual Unglut Your Gut Challenge has been renamed Tito Jackson’s Month of Bacterial Celebration. And if you were wondering how it came to pass that our annual pilgrimage of human microbial restoration has been rebadged under the name of the least heralded member of The Jackson family read on. Okay why Tito Jackson you […]
Hong Kong's Last Farmers / No FOMO at Joe's
Hong Kong’s Last Farmers You can tell Becky Au Hei-man’s mother has done a lot of hard work; waving us into her farmers market stall her deeply sun-browned face seems young and old at the same time. Rearranging produce as she shows us around around her lean body is all efficiency. Becky (that’s her cracking herself […]
Wanna buy a farm? / Complete Urban Farmer
Wanna buy a farm? Carolyn Suggate wants to buy a farm, well lots of farms actually and not just for herself she wants to buy farms with people who care about securing land to be farmed organically forever. This week the Organic and Regenerative Investment Co-operative (ORI Coop), Carolyn co-founded is launching the prospectus for Lyndale Park, a 714 hectare […]
How weeds lead and why we follow / Try Monday and/or Friday
How weeds lead and why we follow Two years ago this coming weekend CERES farmer Emily Connors (that’s Em with her marriage equality rainbow chard above) started selling a few bunches of produce from a table at Joe’s Market Garden. We’d been talking about setting up a farm gate just like farmer Joe Garita had done many […]
How to get politicians to eat their greens / Community Gardens Gathering at CERES
How to get politicians to eat their greens On Friday I went on a “date” with Peta, my wife, to the launch of the Moreland City Council’s Food System Strategy – yes, clearly we don’t get out much. In a Coburg community garden in front of about 40 people our mayor gave a speech; announced […]
A send off for the Gundaroo Tiller / In the field of opportunity….
A send off for the Gundaroo Tiller In 2003 when weeds were threatening to take over my new pumpkin patch down at Joe’s Market Garden I turned to Eliot Coleman’s New Organic Grower for help. Coleman, who had a deeply considered take on every challenge a vegetable grower may come up against, also had an abiding love of elegant & efficient hand […]
