The Washups
Each week at Fair Food we read The Washups; a report that shows us how many orders went out successfully (most of them) and how many had something that wasn’t right (there’s always a few).
The gift that keeps giving
This afternoon, Mary, our neighbour, called me over to help pick her mandarin and orange trees. In her sixties these days Mary can no longer balance at heights. I grab a ladder, a bucket, our sixteen year old son and head next door.
It’s in the bag
Earlier this month Australian Marine Conservation released a study confirming that Australians are the second biggest single-use plastic users in the world.
Brown gold
Today is National Tree Day* and if you head down to the Yarra River this week you’ll see the wattles along the banks dropping their blossoms onto the water in drifts and swirls turning the Yarra into a river of gold.
The Month in Cheese
This month Fair Food’s resident turophile, Isabelle Fouard, is taking our tastebuds on a trip up to the Sunshine Coast to visit the Woombye Cheese Company.
Lessons from a supermarket tomato
In the 80’s and 90’s Coles and Woolies’ dominated the grocery market and fruit and veg got very boring. Epitomised by the industrial tomato – it was the supermarket produce buyer’s holy grail.