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, […]
Welcome to UBtopia / Delivering Delectables to the Dandenongs
Welcome to UBtopia In last week’s newsletter you may have seen a picture of Youbi Lee aka UB on the CERES Fair Food packing line, where she works as a team leader and grocery buyer. This week I’d like to share UB’s other life as a community artist. UB studied printmaking in South Korea at Chugye University of […]
Falling in love with the Earth
Keep on lovin’ you Previously when people asked what CERES is, our CEO, Cinnamon Evans, would say it’s a place that reconnects people with the earth. But a little while ago in a Melbourne airport waiting lounge Cinn told me that what she really wants to say, but has been too shy, is that CERES is […]
Who owns the Farming Zone? / Field of Beans
Who owns the Farming Zone? There’s a “Utopia” moment happening in our food regulatory landscape. One of those times the government’s “got all the stakeholders in the room” to “consult” over a big decision, has made all the right listening noises, but then after everyone’s left, seems to have stayed back for a beer with the big boys […]
CERES ripples / Know thy heirloom
CERES ripples Lorna Pettifer, CERES Education Group Manager, has a wicked sense of humour and a keen appreciation of 80’s synth-rock bands. Last Thursday on stage at the Plaza Ballroom as she accepted the Premiers Award for Sustainability award for Education from Victorian Environment Minister Lily D’ambrosio, Lorna wouldn’t have surprised her workmates if she had pulled out a keytar (I […]
The highs and lows of hemp / Beans and Tomatoes
Highs and lows of hemp This time next week any right-minded person can openly walk into a shop and buy hemp seeds turn around walk out onto the street and start eating them freely without fear of arrest and prosecution. Hemp’s recent history in Australia is completely contradictory. Food Standards Australia and New Zealand declared hemp […]
