Gleaning the columns
In 2002, while working at CERES Grocery, I made a produce ordering spreadsheet in Excel; a simple list of fruit and veg with a few columns.
WoodisGood
Selling timber at Fair Wood is a mix of matchmaking and storytelling – like our food there’s an inherent need to make things and to know where the ingredients come from.
Avocados are different
It seemed like such a simple idea though maybe we should have known; avocados always seem to generate a big online response, though not quite this big.
Making better people
It’s easy to think of cities and forests as being separate things, yet here we live in Greater Melbourne’s urban forest among more than 30 million trees.
Navel gazing
Now it’d be reasonable to think that Cara Cara and Blood Oranges, with their characteristic coloured fleshes, might have similar thing goings on, but you’d be dead wrong.
In the washup
Working in an online grocery can be quite disconnected – but one of the few times we make actual human-to-human contact is when something goes wrong – which often turns into an opportunity to make things right and get to know each other a little bit.