Heartwood
As part of this year’s Melbourne Design Week, Rowan Reid, along with architect and Fair Wood co-founder, Paul Haar, are talking about agroforestry, beauty and the future of timber at the Fair Wood Warehouse.
Pack it up
About half of the seven million tons of packaging we use each year in Australia ends up in landfill, and plastics by themselves are even worse – more than 80% of our plastic packaging is just thrown out.
Vigil
In different parts of the garden two locals are showing first time visitors around like it’s their own farm – which it is.
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 …