Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts / Fair Food Job Closing
Sofi’s Seasonal Signposts Last week in a return-of-the-light antidote to mid-winter, post-election, extinction crisis despair I wrote about the first Murnong planting at Joe’s Garden, the CERES staff solstice bonfire and NUCA’s (Neighbours United for Climate Action) first meeting. I also wrote about an eight season calendar that I’d fallen in love with which I couldn’t quite fit in….until […]
Nine years later… / Send them home
Nine years later This week CERES Fair Food is nine. Fair Food was kind of an accident, it started life as a weekly veggie co-op for CERES staff. Each week a couple of co-op members would pack fruit and veg into boxes on a picnic table outside the old quarry hut. There were […]
Agroforestry’s time / Tamil Feast’s Richman
Agroforestry’s time It’s hard to know why some things get fished out of in-boxes while others, equally worthy of our attention, are left to drift by and wash up in the eddies of the unread. For some deeply unknowable reason this week I found the clickbait of the Victorian Government’s Report from The Independent […]
Plastic free mind / Seeking a self-seeder
Plastic free mind I wandered down to the Merri Creek this morning – no matter how long it’s been the creek always welcomes me back from whatever digital diversion that has kept me away. “Where’ve you been,” the muddy water, the yellow wattle flowers and wattlebirds ask. The winter flood had left its usual trove […]
In trees we trust
If in doubt plant a tree Today is National Tree Day, Planet Ark’s Australia-wide tree planting day. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed but trees are suddenly cool again. In the lead-up to National Tree Day Planet Ark have been running a TV ad spruiking woodas the “Ultimate Renewable”. But trees are not just getting a rebrand; […]
A home for Matthew / You complete me Urban Farmer
A home for Matthew Matthew’s journey from Tehran to Melbourne began when his workplace supervisor found a transistor radio in the cab of his truck. To understand the surreal seriousness of Matthew’s situation we need to go back to the time of the Iranian Revolution. In 1979 as Iran lurched from secular society to Islamic […]
