Comments on: Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up http://pacific-edge.info/food-connect-sydney/ sustainability for the 21st Century Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gregory John Olsen Esq http://pacific-edge.info/food-connect-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Gregory John Olsen Esq Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:03:16 +0000 http://pacific-edge.info/?p=1603#comment-635 I'm glad to have signed up as a potential City Cousin in Sydney! This is a very exciting development. I was involved in a fruit and veg co-op ages ago when members took turns going to Flemington Markets each week to get our produce. Back then boxes were $4 each!! I look forward to getting our first box in February, 2010!! Until then I'll be harvesting from my small veggie patch at home: http://randwick.livelocal.org.au/experiment/167/permaculture-east-comes-to-phillip-bay :-) I’m glad to have signed up as a potential City Cousin in Sydney! This is a very exciting development. I was involved in a fruit and veg co-op ages ago when members took turns going to Flemington Markets each week to get our produce. Back then boxes were $4 each!!

I look forward to getting our first box in February, 2010!! Until then I’ll be harvesting from my small veggie patch at home: http://randwick.livelocal.org.au/experiment/167/permaculture-east-comes-to-phillip-bay :-)

]]> By: Bev Buckley http://pacific-edge.info/food-connect-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Bev Buckley Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:19:44 +0000 http://pacific-edge.info/?p=1603#comment-634 I am probably Food Connect Brisbane's longest standing supplier. We delivered avocadoes to Brisbane on the day they opened and have delivered produce every Tuesday ever since. Food Connect is a great organization. Today we picked some rhubarb in the rain to take up to Food Connect in the morning and I couldn't help thinking that it was not so long ago that we struggled to meet their first order of 50 kilos of rhubarb. This morning we could have picked 250 kg. We've been able to expand because we know we have an organization that will buy what we produce as long as we can maintain the quality. It has been wonderful watching Food Connect work their way through the initial teething troubles and become successful. Sydney has a great role model and most of the organization difficulties have long since been sorted. We are sort of accidental growers. For us it all started as a retirement activity which sort of got serious. Now we have a full time business, run training programmes both face to face and through the internet, run a weekly not-for-profit community market on Tamborine Mountain, are starting up a community garden and grow a large range of fruit and vegetables. Good luck Sydney. I am probably Food Connect Brisbane’s longest standing supplier. We delivered avocadoes to Brisbane on the day they opened and have delivered produce every Tuesday ever since.

Food Connect is a great organization. Today we picked some rhubarb in the rain to take up to Food Connect in the morning and I couldn’t help thinking that it was not so long ago that we struggled to meet their first order of 50 kilos of rhubarb. This morning we could have picked 250 kg. We’ve been able to expand because we know we have an organization that will buy what we produce as long as we can maintain the quality.

It has been wonderful watching Food Connect work their way through the initial teething troubles and become successful. Sydney has a great role model and most of the organization difficulties have long since been sorted.

We are sort of accidental growers. For us it all started as a retirement activity which sort of got serious. Now we have a full time business, run training programmes both face to face and through the internet, run a weekly not-for-profit community market on Tamborine Mountain, are starting up a community garden and grow a large range of fruit and vegetables.

Good luck Sydney.

]]> By: Alio http://pacific-edge.info/food-connect-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Alio Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:18:56 +0000 http://pacific-edge.info/?p=1603#comment-608 I was a member of Food Connect in Brisbane before moving to Sydney. It's great to see the same concept start up here... I'll be signing up straight away for my fresh local produce. I was a member of Food Connect in Brisbane before moving to Sydney. It’s great to see the same concept start up here… I’ll be signing up straight away for my fresh local produce.

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