We want to make it easy to buy fair food – food that is good for the people that grow it (good jobs and fair wages), good for the people that eat it (healthy and fresh) and good for the planet (chemical-free and working in with nature rather than against it). Here we publish letters to our weekly fruit and veg customers, our favourite recipes and more.
If you’re looking for inspiration in the kitchen, check out our recipe collection here!
Featured Post
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 blessing; we are not stressed about veg (like lettuce) wilting as we harvest, so there is less of a panic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Maximising Freshness
Maximising Freshness One of the benefits of buying direct from a local farm is the freshness of the produce you receive. How many people can say the lettuce they just [...]
Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants
Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants Here at the farm, one of the foundations of growing our crops is taking care of the soil. Soil is made up of four main components [...]
Working Bee
Working Bee We occasionally hold ‘working bees’ at the Green Connect Farm where we invite the community to get hands on and during a blitz of farm work. With the [...]
Learning From Our Staff
Learning From Our Staff We often say how lucky we are to have such knowledgeable farmers working at Green Connect. Many of our senior farm hands grew up in refugee [...]
Recovery Efforts
Recovery Efforts Sadly, we have suffered a serious loss of veggie plants at the Green Connect Farm due to all the heavy rain. In particular, our cucumber, zucchini, eggplant, carrot, [...]
Home Growing
Home Growing Here at Green Connect, we’re passionate about transforming our food system and helping people eat more sustainably. We do this by selling chemical-free food from our farm and [...]
Veg Box News ~ 11 March 2022
Hello Veg Box customers! Did you expect 2022 to be less dramatic than the past few years? I did! And yet, here we are on the continuing roller coaster… There [...]
Eating Sustainably
Eating Sustainably Have you ever thought about how much time, effort, transport, and waste is involved in, say, growing asparagus in Mexico and flying it to Australia, putting in a [...]
Rain Rain Rain!
Rain Rain Rain! A big shout out to the Green Connect staff, volunteers, and work experience participants for battling through some serious weather conditions recently! Life has been a real [...]
Connecting with our Community
Connecting with our Community When we started our Warrawong farm 8 years ago, we knew that we wanted to sell our produce directly to customers instead of distributing via wholesalers. [...]