Where wood comes from
Six years ago when Fair Wood launched illegal logging was the third largest global criminal activity behind drugs and counterfeiting. Things haven’t changed much…
Tethering
Down at the Festival of Fava on Saturday hundreds come to explore Joe’s Garden; they’ve come to pick the enormous, sweet fava beans that Joe first started growing here in 1945.
Free muddy, curious child
Under the black Koo Wee Rup soil on Maurie Cafra’s farm, asparagus crowns commune with their fungal collaborators patiently waiting …
Everyday rituals
Seasonal markers like Solstice or Harvest are a wonderful time for our big collective rituals but when you can’t get a thousand or so like-minded neighbours together around a fire there are the everyday rituals.
Getting down to Joe’s
Joe’s Market Garden is a beautiful anomaly; a two and a half acre remnant of early Melbourne when market gardens and dairies were dotted along the Merri Creek.
O2O returns
Last year Olives to Oil manager Merrin Layden was frantically revising her participant predictions for the CERES annual olive picking and pressing festival with every passing hour…
