Coming around
The Currawongs are back in town – they’re fitting birds for longest nights of the year.
Last night around the solstice bonfire at CERES we write down the things we’d like to leave behind with the darkness.
While the fire tears up into the night, down below the village green the Merri Creek flows past us.
And as our notes burn you can almost feel the wattle flowers on banks wanting to burst out their blinding yellow and join in.
This Friday brings the return of the Olives to Oil oil.
An extra virgin truckload of 2800 litres arrives at the Fair Food warehouse.
It’s been pressed from olives picked by 2798 people from 168 different suburbs. We forgot to ask how many olive trees. Next year.
On the weekend the first pickers will come with their bottles to collect their oil as the great distribution begins.
Saturday July 1st is Fair Food’s 13th birthday.
This year the rising cost of living has been hard on people.
Yet each week together, we collectively buy our food from a list of local farmers and makers that continues to grow and grow.
Recently, one of you unknowingly received our 600,000th delivery.
Maybe one of the thank-you notes you write on our cardboard box inserts came back from that order – like an undercover birthday card.
Back around the fire at CERES we turn to the four directions and back to the centre
We welcome each other in all the forms we take
We say goodbye to the darkness and welcome back the light
And we remember, that we are in this great cycle together.
Happy solstice
Chris
