Veg Box Packing Team
Veg Box Packing Team If you are a new or recent subscriber, we would like to introduce you to the amazing Green Connect veg box packing team! Su Meh [...]
Crispy Cauliflower and Carrot Fritters
Crispy Cauliflower Carrot Fritters This recipe comes from https://ohmyveggies.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 4 cups water or [...]
When life gives you lemons…
When life gives you lemons... It’s a well-known saying that’s very relevant right now. Because of the unprecedented rainfall, 2022 has been an extremely challenging year for growers. At [...]
Green Connect News July 2022
Hi, I did a video interview last week for some young people and was asked to outline the biggest challenges and biggest opportunities facing the next generation and what the [...]
Green Connect News June 2022
Hi, There’s a bit more than a month to go until I say farewell to Green Connect and naturally, I’ve been reflecting on what I have learned in this role [...]
Green Connect News May 2022
Hi, I have some fairly big news to share… After four and a half years at Green Connect, I have decided it is time for someone new to take over [...]
Green Connect News March 2022
Hi, I’ve been thinking, hearing and talking a lot about eco-anxiety recently. Apparently 80% of young people in a 2019 study reported feeling “somewhat or very anxious” about climate change, [...]
Chunky Vegetable Soup
Chunky Vegetable Soup This recipe comes from https://girlheartfood.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 1.4kg root vegetables, peeled and [...]
Support Plants
Support Plants A lot of thought and planning go into what we plant at the Green Connect Farm. This is evident when you look at the neat rows of [...]
July Farm Update
July Farm Update Pulling down our dilapidated old chook run has been a mammoth task. We have now dismantled the old structure, keeping salvageable material and recycling the rest. Carrying [...]
Micro-Planning for Growing Success
Micro-Planning for Growing Success How does a stick help us grow veggies? When you visit our farm, it’s clear that a lot of high-level planning has gone into the design [...]
Wicking Beds for Drier Times
Wicking Beds for Drier Times The intensely wet weather this year has resulted in some of the most challenging growing conditions we’ve ever encountered at the farm. We know these [...]
Green Connect News November 2021
Hi, While I was pregnant with my first child, someone told me that parenting is simultaneously the best and hardest thing in the world. So much love and joy and [...]
Use-it-all Meals
Use-it-all Meals I love cooking. With two young kids and a busy schedule, my cooking style has had to change. In my 20’s, I would pore over recipes and plan [...]
Growing People
Growing People Green Connect exists to create jobs and training opportunities for former refugees and young people with multiple and complex barriers to employment. Walking alongside our staff as they [...]
Chicken Run Reno
Chicken Run Reno Many veg box customers know that we have been trying to increase our egg production for a couple of years now. We’ve faced one main challenge in [...]
Easy Green Smoothie
Easy Green Smoothie This recipe comes from https://www.healthdigest.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. This recipe makes 2 serves. [...]
What’s in Season – Winter 2022
Welcome to Winter! We have been launched straight into some seriously wintery weather. Although we might get a little chilly while harvesting, in some respects the colder weather is a [...]
Farm Happenings – May 2022
What's been happening at the farm this May? Babaco (Champagne Fruit): I have hit my head on babaco fruit overhanging our walking track quite a few times recently and am [...]
Mizuna Salad
Mizuna Salad This recipe comes from https://www.runningtothekitchen.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 1 large bunch fresh mizuna [...]
Working Pigs
Working Pigs We discovered a patch of invasive honeysuckle growing on the Eastern bank of the farm recently. It was sending runners up the hill and starting to get out [...]
Meet Rigby
Meet Rigby! We recently welcomed a buck (male) goat to the farm. Rigby is a miniature goat (genetically 50% Pygmy breed), and he’s settling into his new home well. He [...]
Autumn Planting
Autumn Planting It’s still incredibly wet at the farm, despite the better weather recently. Although many garden beds are too bogged for planting, we’re making the most of the ones [...]
Roasted Spring Onions with Polenta
Roasted Spring Onions with Polenta This recipe comes from https://whereismyspoon.co. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 1-2 bunches [...]
Farewell & Thank you James
Farewell & Thank you James We love to celebrate great people at Green Connect, and this week we’re celebrating James! James came to Green Connect in August 2020. Like most [...]