Rowe Morrow – see her before she gets big / Fair Wood – what Pete’s been up to

Rosemary Morrow

  Rosemary Morrow I’m not sure why Rosemary Morrow isn’t better known, her life story would make an incredibly watchable Netflix drama. For the past 40 years Rowe Morrow (that’s her above in red) has been teaching Permaculture to tens of thousands of people in shattered communities across the world’s warzones and disaster areas. Perhaps the lack of recognition […]

In the shed putting eggs in boxes / Robyn Clayfield – coming to CERES

Abundance Eggs - Kali sorting

In the shed putting eggs in boxes   Being a farmer can be a very Instagramable profession, but this pic is actually what a lot of farming looks like –  you in a shed, at a desk, packing eggs into boxes. There’s also the pic of you in the van bringing eggs to drop around town, the […]

Big win for small farmers / Dream job at CERES Farm

CERES Honey Lane Market Garden

Big win for small farmers The indefatigable Tammi Jonas, President of The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), has been celebrating a win for Victorian small-scale pastured pig and poultry farmers this past fortnight. You might remember late last year our State Government was planning changes to The Farming Zone which would have required very small […]

CERES’ Appeal / Manager’s Log / Good Gut is Go!

CERES’ Appeal CERES is more idea than place; an idea planted on top of an old rubbish tip amidst birds, trees and gardens.  An idea built out of things that were thrown away.  An idea that there’s something half-remembered in the earth and air and water that we need to know again. CERES is such a multifarious conglomeration of […]

Plastic free mind / Seeking a self-seeder

Merri Creek plastic

Plastic free mind I wandered down to the Merri Creek this morning – no matter how long it’s been the creek always welcomes me back from whatever digital diversion that has kept me away. “Where’ve you been,” the muddy water, the yellow wattle flowers and wattlebirds ask. The winter flood had left its usual trove […]

Another kind of sugar / Urban Farmer dream job

Global Climate Strike 2019

Another kind of sugar When I was seven years old growing up in rural New Zealand my mum flew to Brisbane to help my uncle Jeff, whose Gold Coast nursery business was going down the gurgler. In those days getting on a plane was a really big thing.  We drove Mum up to Auckland airport […]