CERES Fair Food is an organic vegie box delivery service that sources produce direct from local farmers then packs it and delivers it to local food host locations, known as "city cousins".  Members are then able to pick up boxes of produce from their local city cousin on a weekly basis. There are currently nine such locations in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, with one now operating at the Urban Reforestation shop at Docklands.

CERES Fair Food was modelled on Food Connect, which was first developed in 2004 by Robert Pekin in Brisbane.  This successful model is now spreading to locations across Australia.

As a community food system, it may be defined as a large vegie box scheme co-odinated by a retail distributor.  In this case that distributor is CERES, a non-profit organisation whose primary focus is environmental sustainability.

For more information on CERES Fair Food:
www.ceresfairfood.org.au
(03) 8673 6288

For more information on CERES:
www.ceres.org.au
(03) 9387 2609

Other media:
Hoffman, T 2010 'Food hosts sought to keep goods covered' in Moreland Leader, 22 January 2010

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