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 a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]