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!
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What’s in season in Winter
What to expect from Green Connect in Winter Despite what people think about winter, winter is a great time to be growing food in the Illawarra. Yes, without the heat we don’t have tomatoes and cucumbers, but the lack of heat means that ours leafy greens can grow without the [...]
Bringing food to the community
Bringing food to the community When the rest of the work takes a holiday, vegetables don’t stop growing, people don’t stop eating, and animals don’t stop being cared for. This [...]
Sunchokes
Sunchokes Anyone who has visited the farm in the summertime may have sighted some bright yellow flowers that look like small sunflowers. We grow these flowers, not just for aesthetic [...]
Welcome to winter
Welcome to winter It’s been really hard to judge the seasons over the last nine months, with so much rain and fluctuating conditions, it’s been hard to find a seasonal [...]
Building Soil the Tasty Way
Building Soil the Tasty Way Building healthy soils is at the heart of organic growing. The better the soil, the better the crop! There are a number of ways we [...]
Our cool-season hero
Our cool-season hero The winter of 2014 was the first cool season we spent at the farm and we had a steep learning curve about how difficult growing can be [...]
New Beginnings at the farm
New Beginnings at the farm We were super exited to officially launch our sustainable work skills training program at the farm last week! In partnership with Kiama Community Colleges and [...]
Flowers all around
Flowers all around People who have visited the farm will know that the area we cultivate for growing vegetables is only about one quarter of the farm's land. The rest [...]
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Biodiversity is essential for building resilient ecosystems that can withstand threats from the outside world and thrive. Our aim is for our farm to resemble [...]
Bugs vs Bugs!
Bugs vs Bugs! One of the most common things we get asked by people visiting the farm is: ‘How do you control pests without resorting to chemical sprays’? The answer [...]
Celebrating Urban Agriculture Month
Celebrating Urban Agriculture Month Not only is the global human population growing exponentially, but it’s also urbanising at an incredible rate. In a future that is set to include an [...]
Cliodhna’s care for customers
Cliodhna’s care for customers Cliodhna joined our team almost a year ago as one of our junior farm hands. She began working in the market garden, but quickly got scooped [...]
Turnip-up!
Turnip-up! Running a seasonal veg box system is like running a giant social research experiment. While everyone has their own preferences, we’ve slowly learnt some general patterns around what people [...]
A snail along for the ride
Hitchhikers in the box! It’s ben wet! Very wet! While we always need to be appreciative of the rain we get (especially after going through what we went through last [...]
Radishes in the garden
Watching the Seed Grow As many of you will know, over the last few years we have been running farm and workshops at the farm, to help inspire the community [...]
Luscious Leeks
Luscious Leeks At our urban farm, we do seasonal veg. This means that there are many types of veg that come and go throughout the year and we follow this [...]
Morning tea at the farm
Join us to experience the magic of the Green Connect farm and touch the soil where your veggies are grown. For those of you who joined us for our farm [...]
Eating ‘root to leaf’
Eating ‘root to leaf’ In summer, we grow sweet potatoes throughout our food forest. Anyone who has seen the sweet potato plant grow will know that the tubers grow under [...]
Rain, Hail or Shine
Rain, Hail or Shine When we have weeks of rain, like the one we’ve just had, people often ask me: what do you do when it rains? The answer is… [...]
Why Green Connect fair food
Why Green Connect Fair Food We have been doing a lot of talking lately about how to increase our veg box numbers so that we can fully sustain what we [...]
A Taste of Florence
A Taste of Florence When we started growing Fennel and including it in our boxes, our customers where a bit unsure of this weird looking, liquorish smelling fluorescent white bulb. [...]
Discovering Perilla
Discovering New and Exciting Things One of the pieces of feedback we love hearing from our community, is how our veg boxes introduce people to veggies that they have never [...]
Cory’s journey
Meeting Cory One of the great privileges of managing the Green Connect farm is being able to witness people we work with finding their feet and growing as workers and [...]
Basil-mania
Basil-mania Growing food without chemical means that we have to get a bit creative with how we manage weeds, fungal diseases, soil fertility, and pests. One of the ways we [...]
Working with Nature
Working with Nature Growing food, especially organic food, is all about working with the ebbs-and-flows of nature. There is no other industry on earth whose day to day operations, and [...]
This Summer
What to expect from Green Connect this Summer Summer is a time on the farm where everything speeds up. If we can manage to keep on top of the irrigation, [...]