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!
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, [...]
Christmas fruits
The Taste of Summer We hope you, and all of your families had a great Christmas, and are gearing up to say goodbye to 2020 in style. We’ve been lucky [...]
Visit where your food comes from
Come Visit us! The main reason we do veg boxes rather than selling wholesale to Sydney markets, is because we want to build and foster a relationship between the people [...]
Cooking with fair food over Christmas
Cooking with fair food during Christmas Let’s face it, most Christmas cooking is meat roasts and sweet things – from puddings and cookies to mulled wines and eggnog – but [...]
Zucchini season
Zucchini Mania It’s amazing the difference weather can make! The first hot spell of the season is always an anxious time. It can typically force the winter veg to ‘bolt’ [...]
Eh Moo’s story
Meet Eh Moo Behind each veg box, there is a dedicated team of staff working hard in all-weather to make it happen. Eh Moo is one of our senior farmhands [...]
Waste-free work
Reducing waste and creating opportunities Until COVID-19, Green Connect ran a zero-waste service where we worked with local festivals and businesses to divert waste from landfill, towards recycling and organics [...]
Pests at the farm
Dealing with Pests As part of our Fair Food team meeting last week, we were discussing our integrated pest management strategy and we got to talking about how there is [...]
The beet family
Beets and Beets We grow veg seasonally at the farm and Customers have told us in the past that receiving veg in their box that reflects the season makes them [...]
The natural lawnmower
The fun way to take care of weeds Anyone who has visited the farm will know that the market garden, where our veggies come from, only takes up about one [...]
Mulberry madness
Mulberry Madness At the farm, the ripening of the mulberries has become a signifier that spring is in full swing. There is one particular tree that has been there since [...]
Rolling out
Rolling out the Green Carpet The past few months have been a wild ride for everyone the world over, and it’s been no different here at Green Connect farm. But [...]
flowering in springtime
Spring Flowering There comes a time every spring when we get a sudden change from cool weather to heat waves, and all the vegetables that were planted and grown in [...]
5 ideas for cooking with veg
5 ideas for Vegbox cooking I have been getting the Green Connect veg box for almost three years and with two young kids and limited time, I’ve developed some “go [...]
Evolving our veg box service
Veg Box Evolution The past few months have been a wild ride for everyone the world over, and at Green Connect it has been an absolute rollercoaster. The implications of [...]
The Apiacia family
A Family affair The modern food system is designed in a way that relies on the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. So, when trying to grow things [...]