In times of trouble we seek sanctuary and in weeks like these CERES, more than ever, feels like a Mother Tree.

So much happening around CERES during this wintery weather! From firewood and awards for Fair Wood, to our waste-free beetroot curry workshop, and Joes Garden Feathery Fundraiser (complete with bird-themed dress up) at the farm gate. Busy season!

My own failed veg box experience was years of composting the limp beetroot and yellowing cabbage my family didn’t eat and feeling a kind of “veg box shame”.

At this year’s Harvest Festival as the passata makers wiped the last sauce spatters away, Rosa Voto and musicians, Sancori, took centre stage to perform Stories of Harvest from Southern Italy to a gathering of harvest revellers primed to let loose.

Like Claire from Cherry Road, Dot and Nev only have a small farm so dahlia bunches will be limited to Saturday deliveries only – set your delivery day to Saturday and they appear in stock.

Wanting to share the food traditions of Charith’s mother, grandmother and the village communities they’d worked with but not knowing how to package it right – their zero waste solution had literally been under their noses for the past fifteen years – the banana leaf.