Ultrawild
To the best of my research, every project in this book, however bonkers, is theoretically possible, so writes industrial designer and inventor Steve Mushin’s of his book, Ultrawild, a wonderfully outlandish celebration of the power of creative thinking to help navigate the climate and ecological crisis.
I eat, therefore….
Just as Einstein theorised that people, islands, everything only exist through their relationships with each other, maybe Descartes would also conclude that no person or grocery provider is an island.
Compost of the soul
Slowly, I came to recognise this was a kind of composting of the soul, a breaking down and renewing of self that’s as essential to a human as regular compost is to soil.
So small yet so large
Along with Joe’s Garden, Fair Food gathers almost all of our lettuce, bunched greens and herbs from a group of small growers farming in and around Melbourne. These farms couldn’t be smaller yet their influence couldn’t be larger.
Re-emerging
The flood at Chloe’s has also affected growers and other farmers across Victoria. This week looking over Fair Food’s produce lists there are already a few “out-of-stocks” and it’d be a safe bet that there’ll be more to come.
A beginning and an end
On Saturday Mo, our warehouse supervisor, messaged the Fair Food crew with good news…