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, [...]