Growing for the future
Growing for the Future Imagine you’re a young person growing up in the Illawarra with barriers to employment. You might have mental health issues, you might be from an intergenerationally [...]
Luscious Greens
Luscious Greens Producing a seasonal veg box is a bit like running a giant social research experiment on what veggies people like, don’t like, and like sometimes but not too [...]
Fair Food
Fair Food We produce fair food: food that is good for the people who grow it, good for the people who eat it and good for the planet. A big [...]
Setting the Bar
Setting the Bar A critical part of our mission at the Green Connect farm is to provide an entrance point for young people and former refugees wishing to begin their [...]
What’s in season this Spring
What to expect in your Green Connect veg box this spring The warm weather that hit us in the middle of August made it feel like spring had come early, [...]
Welcome to Spring
Welcome to Spring The is a lot of gloominess in the community at the moment, and understandably so given the length of and tightening of the COVID restrictions that we [...]
Opening a New Chapter
Opening a New Chapter This week is a bit of a personal one… At the end of September, I will be closing an 8-year long chapter with Green Connect, to [...]
Celebrating Silverbeet
Celebrating Silverbeet One of the things we try to generate through our veg boxes is a bit of excitement about the more exotic veg that we can grow in the [...]
Our ‘Zero Waste’ mission
Our ‘Zero Waste’ mission Reducing waste from landfill is one of Green Connect's core missions. This goal is best illustrated by our zero-waste team, which works with local councils, festivals, [...]
Growing food, growing people
Growing food, growing people I met Jaycob Miller back in 2013, as a student of Warrawong High School’s living classroom program. Jaycob spent a lot of time in the garden, [...]