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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Potato Leek Cornish Pasty
Potato Leek Cornish Pasty This recipe comes from https://www.abeautifulplate.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 2-4 sheets frozen [...]
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 [...]
Coleslaw
Coleslaw This recipe comes from https://www.inspiredtaste.net/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 1/4-1/2 medium cabbage, outer leaves removed [...]
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 [...]
Vegetable Massaman Curry
Vegetable Massaman Curry This recipe is inspired from https://www.newidea.com.au/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 2 tablespoons oil [...]
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 [...]
Watercress, Apple, Pear and Almond Salad
Watercress, Apple, Pear and Almond Salad The original recipe comes from https://thedevilwearssalad.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients Salad: [...]
Root Vegetable Hash with Eggs
Root Vegetable Hash with Eggs The original recipe comes from https://naturallyella.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe, including full instructions, nutritional information and useful notes. Ingredients 1/4 onion [...]
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, [...]