JOSH ARZT, CERES FAIR FOOD
Josh Arzt is the Produce buyer for CERES Fair Food, an online organic grocer and carbon neutral food delivery service that is helping create more secure local food systems.
As of 2020, CERES Fair Food employs 67 people, with nearly half the workers being new immigrants or people seeking asylum. We will be speaking about the development of the organic movement in Australia, the organic wholesale market, and advice for young growers.
Instagram: @ceresfairfood
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Opportunity to ask questions and general catch up with conversations let by Michael Densham - YFC Melbourne Chapter Coordinator.
Q & A time for everyone on farm questions following facilitated conversation.
Agenda
7:00pm Everyone: 15mins - Intro's and icebreaker
7:15 Individual: 30mins - Josh Artz on Local supply chain and distribution, organic wholesale markets and advice for young growers
Everyone: 15 mins - Follow up questions / affirmations
8:00 Everyone: 20mins - Q/A forum and brainstorming - Each person participating to ask a question for / to the group with 2mins for group to answer to your query.
8:20pm: Wrap up - 10mins - what is happening, any Aus farm news, next catch up / announcements. Something to offer / something you need ?
P.S.
As per our ongoing conversations from these catch ups - in the background, and in some future meetings, some members of this group also hope to continue creating resources together. For reference our 1st catch up last month was about...
'Calling all current and emerging Melbourne-based farmers and market gardeners!
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a more efficient way to access high quality information directly relevant to your farming situation?
Community-generated online farming resources and
We are thinking about how to build a common resource (e.g. online working documents) on a range of topics, including things like suppliers, tool reviews, seed varieties, crop-planning, plant spacing, insurance as well as more complex topics like soil fertility, how to grow good spinach, cooperatives, soil management, decision making & budgeting, disease/pest management, and soil management etc.
The idea is that this resource will be created and managed by our community of farmers so that the information is relevant to us. We want to have a variety of content relevant to both the entry level farmer and the more experienced farmer. Regular knowledge share meetings...'