Water-saving hack: grab your choice of vessel and pop some chicken wire over the top to create a giant sieve. Wash your veggies straight from harvest, avoid a dirty kitchen sink and save water to reuse on your other plants. For more gardening hacks sign up for our newsletter. 💚
For Santa, for your Xmas party, for your neighbour who unexpectedly stopped by… these @ceresfairfood gingerbread cookies (4-ways) make for a delicious crowd pleaser all festive season long. Get the recipe over at @ceresfairfood 🍪🎄❤️
Propagation Volunteers at CERES
A volunteer crew brought together by the humble seed. 🌱 Take a look inside propagation at CERES with Lisa and Zanda. Lisa has been volunteering in prop for 7 years – throughout COVID and as a means to do something completely different after retiring. Zanda has been on board volunteering for the past 5 months – on top of this she is currently doing the Complete Urban Farmer course and loving it. CERES wouldn’t be what it is today without our volunteers – we love and value everything they do.
If you want to have this much fun, make connections, be in nature and pursue something different, head to the link in our bio and check out our volunteer positions. 🙋♀️🙋♂️
A trip to CERES will always add some sunshine to your day... even if it's raining. 💘
These tofu tacos are serving. Not just fun to say, but fun to eat. Reasons to love them:
👉 super easy to make
👉 big on flavour
👉 freezable tofu mix for future meals
👉 can be made gluten-free, low FODMAP and vegan!
Shout out to @georgeeats, a local food whizz who is forever inspiring @ceresfairfood with her food intolerance-friendly recipes.
Hit the link in our bio for the recipe 🌮
Plastic-free Plant Labels
If you’re anything like us at CERES, you’ll have some pruned branches lying about in your garden this time of year. 🪵🍃 Of course, you can pop them in the compost or create a teepee for your climbers but we think you should have a crack at making these sustainable plastic-free plant labels. They’re completely free, fun and the perfect addition to any garden.
If you want more sustainable tips like this comment a 🌻 below!
#zerowaste #ecofriendly #reducereuserecycle
✅ Queer?
✅ Sick of dating apps?
✅ Plant parent (or aspiring plant parent)?
If you ticked most of the boxes above we’ve got a very special treat for you. That’s right, it’s that time again folks. Weed Dating. Queer weed dating to be specific.
You’ve heard of speed dating - now just add weeding. Come and meet a new friend, lover, or anything in between (or beyond) amongst the plants at @ceresjoesgarden.
Let the sparks fly between the rows of kale – and to sweeten the deal we’re throwing in coffee and snacks for when you need a break from all the weeding (or flirting 😉).
Swipe right on something a little different! Limited spots, so get in quick! Link in bio.
This is an 18+ event open to queer people of all genders.
#queerdating #speeddating #sickofhinge #meetcute
Did you know you can grow mushrooms in buckets? It's a zero waste way to grow a sunstantial crop AND the spent substrate makes for the best mulch going around, just ask the gardens at CERES. Learn how from your friendly, local mushroom farmer Buttons. Book now for September 29th via the link in our bio.
#growingmushrooms #workshopmelbourne
If you read Harry Potter and wished Herbology was a class your school offered, then our Herbal Apprentice might be for you. Learn the magic that can be found in the garden, deepening your connection with medicinal plants & their uses. Follow the link in bio to learn more.
Check out the poof on these pillowy, golden puffs – poori, a traditional Indian fried bread.
The dough is rolled into discs and deep fried for a golden, slightly crispy bread that’s the perfect partner to potato curry, chana masala, and more… Yum!
Join us to create a feast of your own at our upcoming Indian Festival Cooking workshop series celebrating Raksha Bandhan, Dussehra, and Diwali. We’re kicking off on Sunday 25 August, don’t miss it!
#rakshabandhan #dussehra #diwali #indianfestivals #indiancooking #indiancookingclass #ceresworkshops #melbourneevents
How to make a farm fresh sign 🪧🌿 This week we muddled through figuring out how to make decent looking signs for the farm from scrap timber. It turned out to look just the right amount of tidy AND handmade and was easier than we expected.
This method is great if you:
A) are too much of a perfectionist to give in to the chaos of freehand.
B) want to achieve a certain look/consistent font.
C) don’t want to buy any fancy equipment.
Method:
- Sand and paint your timber in advance. We found a matte charcoal in the workshop that looks pretty chalkboardy.
- Measure the dimensions of your timber.
- Using Canva or Adobe set up your document to be the size of you timber so you can perfect your placement. Play with your design until it’s snazzy. Print (this might be across multiple pages).
- Hold up your print to the window and shade with a pencil over the back of your letters or images.
- Fasten the page to your timber and trace the design with a sharp pencil and a decent bit of pressure. This will leave you with a faint pencil outline on the timber.
- Fill it in with a paint pen!
Brb making signs for every plant in the garden.
#gardencrafts #gardenlabels #recycledgarden #diysigns #urbanfarming #urbanfarm #gardendiy #gardensign #gardenproject #ediblegarden
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