A sebago anniversary / The onion situation
A sebago anniversary We’ve been talking about new farmers a lot lately but this week I want celebrate one of the old guard, Joe Sgro from Foothill Organics in Colac. This year it’s 15 years since we started buying produce off Joe for CERES Market. That’s Joe on the right at his farm stand at the old […]
Mathees’ 10 year homecoming / Footy ends, asparagus begins
Mathees’ ten year homecoming It’s been a big year for Matheeswaran Subramaniam, fondly known as Mathees at the Fair Food warehouse (that’s Mathees on the right moving our warehouse). In the year he bought his first home in Australia he’s also been able to go back to his Sri Lankan home. And right now as you read this, for the first time […]
Longing to be belonging / Grassiest of grassroots gatherings / Dandenong Deliveries
Longing to be belonging “Everybody should have a place they belong to“, said the speaker at the social enterprise conference this week and I wrote the words down in my notebook and thought a bit…. Growing up I went to seven different schools and got good a taste of being the new kid in the street, […]
Welcome to UBtopia / Delivering Delectables to the Dandenongs
Welcome to UBtopia In last week’s newsletter you may have seen a picture of Youbi Lee aka UB on the CERES Fair Food packing line, where she works as a team leader and grocery buyer. This week I’d like to share UB’s other life as a community artist. UB studied printmaking in South Korea at Chugye University of […]
Falling in love with the Earth
Keep on lovin’ you Previously when people asked what CERES is, our CEO, Cinnamon Evans, would say it’s a place that reconnects people with the earth. But a little while ago in a Melbourne airport waiting lounge Cinn told me that what she really wants to say, but has been too shy, is that CERES is […]
Who owns the Farming Zone? / Field of Beans
Who owns the Farming Zone? There’s a “Utopia” moment happening in our food regulatory landscape. One of those times the government’s “got all the stakeholders in the room” to “consult” over a big decision, has made all the right listening noises, but then after everyone’s left, seems to have stayed back for a beer with the big boys […]
