Today’s chat is with Sandy Melgalvis at Common Ground Project, a not for profit café just out of Geelong. Sandy and I sat outside surrounded by chooks, raised garden beds and children running around in the sun. I had been wanting to talk to Sandy for a while because her name kept coming up in very favourable terms when I spoke to other chefs. Note to self: do not listen to Russell Brand in conversation with Lena Dunham while driving to talk to a chef; my brain was scrambled from the intellectual repartee and the struggle was real to get any kind of coherent statement out which you’ll hear as I go on. Luckily for me, Sandy thoughtfully articulated everything I wanted to know and gave me even more to think about on the drive home.