Speaking to Jason and selling plums
Speaking to Jason and selling plums These summer holidays in Perth have fostered a kind of existential hopelessness. Firstly, when I hear at beach that the sunscreen we have been so well-trained to slap onto our family’s skin is poisoning the coral reefs it creates a paralysing moral choice between melanoma and marine ecosystem destruction? Secondly, […]
Schulz milk in glass bottles update / PAZOYND Day, Saturday, Feb 23rd
Schulz milk in glass bottles coming soon… Here’s a progress update on Schulz Organic Dairy’s new glass milk bottles. You may remember back in 2018 Simon Schulz raised $106,100 to buy plant & equipment to put his milk into 5,000 reusable glass bottles each week. The glass bottles that are estimated to eliminate up to 10 tonnes […]
Lost trades / No box left behind
Lost trades I’m in Kyneton with 16,000 others this weekend to see the Lost Trades Fair. The Labour Weekend event has become so popular they’ve capped the numbers this year. Spread around the Kyneton Racecourse on the banks of the Campaspe River is a world made by hand. People’s intimate lives with clay, wood, flax, wool, […]
Got to be worth a try / Kids play at Joe’s Garden
Got to be worth a try I was looking at an Instagram post about the big vegetable growing competition at CERES Harvest Festival when a comment caught my attention…. “While CERES do great work in these sorts of areas, the lack of advocacy around the climate emergency is extremely disappointing. The planet won’t be […]
Wanna buy a farm? / Complete Urban Farmer
Wanna buy a farm? Carolyn Suggate wants to buy a farm, well lots of farms actually and not just for herself she wants to buy farms with people who care about securing land to be farmed organically forever. This week the Organic and Regenerative Investment Co-operative (ORI Coop), Carolyn co-founded is launching the prospectus for Lyndale Park, a 714 hectare […]
Longing to be belonging / Grassiest of grassroots gatherings / Dandenong Deliveries
Longing to be belonging “Everybody should have a place they belong to“, said the speaker at the social enterprise conference this week and I wrote the words down in my notebook and thought a bit…. Growing up I went to seven different schools and got good a taste of being the new kid in the street, […]
