Fate in our hands
Today, thirty two years after almost losing everything, CERES social enterprises employ around 250 people and generate 90% of CERES’ income.
Worm time
At the end of the year when all the pressures of work and family collide sometimes the best place to go is underground. This is worm time.
The people are the place
A quiet, hot morning. As I showed two visitors around the East Brunswick site I found myself struggling to explain what CERES is.
Working bee
Over the weekend I was talking to a beekeeper friend expressing my amazement at the extraordinary organisational and logistical skills displayed by a honey bee colony.
Do something useful
1982 and Brunswick is a dying suburb with a ten acre former rubbish tip overgrown with wild fennel and boxthorn.
The versatile sugar gum
Looking back to the devastation of Victoria’s Mallee country and the windbreaks of the dust bowl, from the comfort of a Fair Wood sugar gum deck.
