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 (organically-grown 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!
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. [...]
Eggplants
Eggplants There was excitement at the farm this week, with the arrival of our first eggplants of the season! Beautifully glossy, deep purple teardrops appearing on our plants is a [...]
The Zero-Waste Veg Box
The Zero-Waste Veg Box I was going through the veg box insert archives and found this oldie but goodie. It was written 2 years ago by Cal Champagne, our original [...]
Managing Weeds
Managing Weeds Managing weeds is one of the most time-consuming tasks on our farm. Even in a smaller backyard garden, weeds can quickly get out of control, particularly at this [...]
An integrated system: Why we farm animals
An integrated system: Why we farm animals We’ve recently released our next round of free-range pork for sale and wanted to take a moment to give you a bit more [...]
Incredible Volunteers
Incredible Volunteers In this week's insert, we're celebrating the incredible volunteers who help out at the farm! Green Connect is a true community initiative and would not exist without the many [...]
New sheep at the farm
New sheep at the farm Green Connect Farm now has a small breeding flock of Damara sheep! This unusual breed originated in East Asia and Egypt, before moving down [...]
Rod Logan
Rod Logan Meet Rod, our Market Garden Coordinator at the farm for the past 18 months. Rod has a wealth of knowledge, with extensive experience including organic farming, revegetation, grazing [...]
The Beauty of Beans
The beauty of beans Beans are being harvested at the farm right now and they look glorious! Beans trace their origins back to Central and South America, they are rich [...]
Eating Well over the Holidays
Eating Well over the Holidays The Christmas holidays are generally not known as a time for healthy eating. But with more awareness of how our eating habits affect the planet, [...]
What’s in Season this Summer (2021/2022)
What can you expect from the Green Connect Farm this Summer? Summer is a time on the farm where everything speeds up. If we can manage to keep on top [...]
Working with Nature: Chop & Drop
Working with Nature: Chop & Drop This week at the farm we will be busy with ‘chop and drop’ around the farm! This is the action of heavily chopping back [...]
New Additions to the Farm
New Additions to the Farm Last week we welcomed two new additions to the Green Connect Farm, our alpaca Carlos and Pedro! Alpaca are often mistaken for llama; they are [...]
Visiting the Green Connect Farm
Visiting the Green Connect Farm Ten short years ago, the land behind Warrawong High School was a wasteland of weeds. Today, thanks to a passionate team of volunteers and staff, [...]
The Products of Pollination
The Products of Pollination – Zucchinis & Honey Zucchinis are one of my favourite summer veggies and it’s so exciting seeing them growing around the farm and packed in veg [...]
Congratulations Pleh Meh
Congratulations Pleh Meh Congratulations to Pleh Meh, who has just secured a permanent part time position at the Green Connect Farm! Pleh Meh is Karenni, from Myanmar (formally Burma) and [...]
Beetroots!
Beetroots! We love getting people excited about what we grow on our farm. Today, we're celebrating beetroot! As Cal Champagne, our former farm manager, once said: "Out of all the [...]
Goats as farm workers
Goats as farm workers We have a small herd of miniature goats at the Green Connect farm, all working very hard for us. What’s wonderful is that from the goat’s [...]