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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]