A little more light around
Now we’ve passed the Solstice there’s a little more light around and it’s time for the glorious frosty sunny mornings.
The black wattle flowers are out along the Merri Creek and soon the banks will be a wall of extravagant bright yellow.
The red wattle birds are barking and diving after each other through the flowering swamp and yellow gums.
There’s the noisy flocks of rainbow lorikeets hurrying from flowering tree to tree. They call out – I’m here, I’m here! This is so great! Where are you? I’m here, I’m here! This is so great.
Near the rickety swing bridge a pair of white faced herons have just finished building their nest and meanwhile the crows and the currawongs are getting very vocal – calling out to prospective partners as we head into the breeding season.
During the week I was riding past Joe’s Garden up on the bike path just over the swing bridge. There was a group of volunteers out in the greens patch bunching up the beautiful rainbow chard leaves.
Reminded me of how cold your hands get when you’re washing the bunches in the wash trough and how the frost just slows all the greens down this time of year.
Liz at Fair Food asked me to remind everyone that the bunches of spinach, chard, kale and all the herbs will be a bit smaller until the days lengthen and the Spring sun warms up the soil again.
Speaking of cold, down at the Fair Food warehouse Hema and Mo are having a send back your cardboard cooler campaign.
Our reusable recycled cardboard cooler supplier has stopped selling them so we’re asking everyone who might have one lying around the house to put them out with your next order for collection or if you’re passing through Preston to drop them in at Fair Food – we’re at 20 Water Rd, Preston, near the old Bunnings.
While we’re looking for a replacement supply we’ll use our reusable, insulated cardboard pouches and for bigger orders the recycled poly broccoli boxes.
If you didn’t know already you can send all of the packaging we send to you back to us. We’ll reuse it or make sure it gets recycled.
The more packaging you send back the less has to be made – in terms of saving energy and water, reusing a cardboard box three or four times is a very powerful thing.
You can also send your soft plastics back to us – a couple of months ago when we launched our pick-up service we thought we knew how desperately people wanted to recycle their soft plastics.
Well not quite – the response has been very enthusiastic.
And seeing hundreds of your full soft plastic pick-up bags going off to APR Recycling to be turned into new food packaging and builders film has been unexpectedly heartwarming.
Since the collapse of Woolworths and Coles’ REDcycle scheme the government has invested a lot of money into Australia’s soft plastic recycling industry. The new recycling plants are up and running and really need us to send our soft plastics to them.
You can buy a pack of twenty soft plastic pick-up bags for twenty dollars here. We reckon this should take care of your soft plastic recycling needs for about a year.
All you need to do is rinse and dry your soft plastics, put them in the Pick-Up bag and leave it out for collection when you get your next Fair Food delivery.
If you want to know more about it, click here.
Keep warm, eat well and have a great week.
Chris
