Kale crisis latest. So much at brewing at Fair Food we're fit to burst.

21st August 2014

If you were worried about the imminent collapse of an unregulated Chinese shadow banking system or a looming Wall St crash created by US Fed money printing or even European zombie banks dragging us into the next GFC – forget about it! There’s a kale crisis – yes you read right a kale crisis! No, I didn’t know either until I was recently asked to comment on the situation by an Age reporter. Feeling hopelessly out of the loop I wondered whether I should I be stockpiling bags of kale chips or freezing green smoothies? But when I asked Fair Food’s farmers they soothed my leafy green angst assuring me there would be kale in our immediate future. And to prove it this week Josh, Fair Food’s produce buyer, has ordered more than 400 bunches of kale from 3 of our favourite farmers; Craig and Shelley Heppell, Vince from the Merri Creek Market Garden and Katherine from our aquaponics farm just next door. This week kale lovers there will be bunches in the large, medium, small mixed, veg only and intolerant box and as always in the Fruit and Veg section of the webstore. Read more …