We want to make it easy to buy fair food – food that is good for the people that grow it (good jobs and fair wages), good for the people that eat it (healthy and fresh) and good for the planet (chemical-free and working in with nature rather than against it). Here we publish letters to our weekly fruit and veg customers, our favourite recipes and more.
If you’re looking for inspiration in the kitchen, check out our recipe collection here!
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A New Chapter
A New Chapter My first veg box insert! When I walk around the farm, it is hard to comprehend the effort that has gone into transforming what was once a [...]
A Snail of Approval
A Snail of Approval You may have noticed a few hitchhikers on your leafy greens recently. If you're a long-term veg box customer, or if you grow your own veg, [...]
Bountiful Brassica Leaves
Bountiful Brassica Leaves Our recently departed Farm Manager Cal Champagne once wrote, "If there is one food that is representative of the ‘superfood’ trend that has gone crazy over the [...]
Innovation in Sustainability
Innovation in Sustainability Last week Green Connect won an international award – the Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Award for Innovation in Sustainable Development. It’s a pretty big deal. It means we are [...]
Voting for a Fair Food System
Voting for a Fair Food System This will be the last veg box insert that I will write. By the time you read this, I will be setting up my [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]