Italian Parmesan Baked Fennel
Italian Parmesan Baked Fennel This recipe comes from https://anitalianinmykitchen.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe and additional information. Ingredients 2-3 fennel bulbs, cleaned and thinly sliced 2 [...]
Florence Fennel
Florence Fennel When we started growing fennel and including it in our boxes, customers where a bit unsure of this weird looking, liquorish smelling, white bulb. But once they had [...]
COVID-19 information in Swahili
Green Connect has collected information in Swahili to help our Swahili-speaking staff and community. Click on the green links to get more information. Please tell us if there are other [...]
COVID-19 information in Karen
Green Connect has collected information in Karen to help our Karen-speaking staff and community. Click on the green links to get more information. Please tell us if there are other [...]
Curried Carrot and Turnip Soup
Curried Carrot and Turnip Soup This recipe comes from https://www.thespruceeats.com/. Click on the title to view the original recipe and additional information. Ingredients 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 large onion [...]
Maintaining our Honesty
Maintaining our Honesty With so many new customers, and with us having had a particularly chaotic time of the year, I wanted to take the chance to explain why some [...]
Warrigal Greens & Macadamia Nut Pesto
Warrigal Greens & Macadamia Nut Pesto Acknowledgment: this a recipe was published in The Garigal magazine, an indigenous publication, and shared by Clarence Slockee, Royal Botanical Gardens and presenter on Gardening [...]
Acknowledging the first farmers
Acknowledging the first farmers This week is NAIDOC week, which is a chance for us to celebrate the richness of aboriginal Australia. Everything that we do at Green Connect is [...]
Stir-fry Chinese Celery
Stir-fry Chinese Celery Ingredients 225-275g Chinese celery 1 tbsp vegetable oil (or peanut oil) 2 garlic cloves (finely chopped) 1 chili (seeds removed and julienned) 1 1/2 tbsp chicken broth [...]
Welcoming new customers in the face of uncertainty
Welcoming new customers in the face of uncertainty When the first wave of COVID19 hit us in 2020, we saw a huge surge in the number of veg boxes [...]
Chinese cabbage noodle stir fry
Chinese cabbage noodle stir fry Ingredients Sauce ¼ cup reduced sodium soy sauce ¼ cup rice vinegar 1 tbsp each: chili paste, sesame oil, and brown sugar ¼ cup water [...]
Broccoli: Winter Flowers
Winter Flowers Let’s Face it, of all the winter vegetables, broccoli is the hero in most people’s kitchen. A luscious head of freshly picked broc is hard to beat. [...]
Polish Kohlrabi Soup (Zupa z Kalarepy)
Polish Kohlrabi Soup (Zupa z Kalarepy) - Serves 6 Ingredients 1 kohlrabi peeled, cubed, use leaves too (see Instructions) 1 medium onion finely chopped 1 medium carrot peeled, cubed 2 medium potatoes peeled, cubed 2 tbsp parsley and dill each, finely [...]
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 [...]
Green Connect News June 2021
Hi, One of the sectors hit hardest by the impacts of a global pandemic has been the event industry – especially large music festivals and the like. This has meant [...]
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup Ingredients 680g Jerusalem artichokes, peeled + roughly chopped 2 tablespoons butter/margarine 1 large leek, lighter green + white part cut into ¼ inch coins ⅓ cup shallots, [...]
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 [...]
Ginger Garlic Noodle Soup with Bok Choy
Ginger Garlic Noodle Soup with Bok Choy Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 3 shallots, diced (can use 1 large onion instead) 1 bunch green onions, chopped, green and white divided 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 tbsp ginger, fresh, minced [...]
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 [...]
FREE social enterprise workshops
Are you curious about the growing social enterprise sector? Are you interested in starting your own social enterprise? Are you part of a social enterprise in Wollongong and want to [...]
Chicken kale soup
Chicken Kale Soup - Serves 8 Ingredients 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 yellow onion chopped 4 garlic cloves finely chopped or pressed 1 cup chopped celery 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp garlic powder ½ tsp thyme 2 tbsp. fresh ginger grated 1 cup chopped carrots 4 cups chicken broth 3 chicken [...]
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 [...]
Stir-fried Daikon Radish Cake
Stir-fried Daikon Radish Cake - Serves 4 as a side (Click on the link in the title to see a recipe video) Ingredients 400-500 g shredded Daikon radish 1 small carrot shredded (about ½ [...]
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 [...]
Turnip and potato patties
Turnip and potato patties - makes 6 Ingredients 225 grams turnips, peeled and cut into 0.5cm cubes (about 1 1/3 cups) 30 grams potato, peeled and cut into 1cm cubes [...]