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 […]
How weeds lead and why we follow / Try Monday and/or Friday
How weeds lead and why we follow Two years ago this coming weekend CERES farmer Emily Connors (that’s Em with her marriage equality rainbow chard above) started selling a few bunches of produce from a table at Joe’s Market Garden. We’d been talking about setting up a farm gate just like farmer Joe Garita had done many […]
How to get politicians to eat their greens / Community Gardens Gathering at CERES
How to get politicians to eat their greens On Friday I went on a “date” with Peta, my wife, to the launch of the Moreland City Council’s Food System Strategy – yes, clearly we don’t get out much. In a Coburg community garden in front of about 40 people our mayor gave a speech; announced […]
A send off for the Gundaroo Tiller / In the field of opportunity….
A send off for the Gundaroo Tiller In 2003 when weeds were threatening to take over my new pumpkin patch down at Joe’s Market Garden I turned to Eliot Coleman’s New Organic Grower for help. Coleman, who had a deeply considered take on every challenge a vegetable grower may come up against, also had an abiding love of elegant & efficient hand […]
A sebago anniversary / The onion situation
A sebago anniversary We’ve been talking about new farmers a lot lately but this week I want celebrate one of the old guard, Joe Sgro from Foothill Organics in Colac. This year it’s 15 years since we started buying produce off Joe for CERES Market. That’s Joe on the right at his farm stand at the old […]
Mathees’ 10 year homecoming / Footy ends, asparagus begins
Mathees’ ten year homecoming It’s been a big year for Matheeswaran Subramaniam, fondly known as Mathees at the Fair Food warehouse (that’s Mathees on the right moving our warehouse). In the year he bought his first home in Australia he’s also been able to go back to his Sri Lankan home. And right now as you read this, for the first time […]
