Box Divvy Coffs Harbour - Kurrajong

18/04/2024

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59 likes, 18 comments. “I compared a $70 box of fruit & veg from to $70 from 2 clever start-ups Divvy & Pick for Today Show”

11/01/2024

Find out more about our spray free produce.

13/05/2023

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07/04/2023

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Naturally dyed Easter eggs

30/01/2023

Latest Market News
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Celery supply has had some adverse weather in the Victorian growing regions: they’ll be $3.90 a bunch for a little while
Whilst all tomato varieties are super-cheap, Roma tomatoes are up a little to $4.78 a kilo
Demand for green cabbages has gone through the roof – expect to pay $3.65 a head (but red cabbages are now much better value)


DOWN

Blueberries galore: $2.86 a punnet
Peach supply is picking up: prices are down to $4.33 a kilo
Plenty of local and interstate corn: don’t pay more than 75c a cob
The Italian Flat beans came in lower than expected: $9.36 a kilo for the rest of the week
New season ginger is available now, pushing ginger prices down to $15.60 a kilo
Brown onions also have new season supply, with prices easing to $2.65 a kilo – and more expected
George Portelli says ‘Sell the squash!’: he’s brought down the price to $4.55 a kilo
Red cabbages are down to $2.50 a kilo, whilst Wombok is down to $3.

27/10/2022

Sample Box of Fresh Produce For Sale $20

19/08/2022

$25 Fresh Produce Box direct from Farmer to Family

15/07/2022

Fresh Sample boxes
2 X $20 boxes - with Pumpkin & Kale
1 X $15 box - with Cauliflower

Box Divvy delivers fresh produce direct from Farmer to Family
PM for pick up address

08/07/2022

$15 & $20 sample boxes available today 🫑💚🍀
Box Divvy delivers fresh produce direct from the farmer to your local hub for same day pick up.
PM for pick up address.

02/07/2022

One of our start boxes that members collected yesterday........ so fresh 💚💚💚

01/07/2022

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Beetroot bunches are scarce – mainly because the wet weather has destroyed the greenery – but that also means supply of loose beetroot bulbs is strong and prices have dropped to $2.40/kg.

01/07/2022

$15 Sample box from Box Divvy.
Box Divvy delivers fresh produce straight from the farmer to your local hub for same day pick up.
PM for pick up address.

21/06/2022

Hi I’m Leonie and taking over the Hub from Ally. A big thankyou to Ally for running the Hub.

I’m looking forward to building a food community keen to share recipes, know more about our local and Australian farmers.

I’m passionate about making healthy food choices, reducing our packaging and connecting people within our community. Food is a great way to do this. We might not be able to sit at each others dinner tables at the moment but we can fire each other with enthusiasm for cooking and sharing our storage tips.

We welcome new members to this Friday Hub. If you’ve questions feel free to ask me.

To join my Hub use this link
https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/270




More about How it Works.

With Box Divvy we share boxes using a smart App (on Google Play) and offered to you when you join and this helps us , as a group, to share boxes of fruit, veg, bread, eggs, groceries shared between us. Meat, Seafood, Chicken and Smallgoods offered every 4 weeks and only free home delivery on a Saturday.

How does this work?
Easy.
You get an order every week unless you suspend BEFORE Order Creation.
You get a Start Order, fruit & Veg only, and how much you get in it is based on household size. Every order ends up being different because you can take up to 3 things out.

You have a say what goes into the Start Order.

In fact you can have a say by VOTING BEFORE Order Creation which is Saturday 9pm each week. You can Vote from Friday onwards for the next week. Remember it’s an indication only for what may go into the Start Order.

When I publish the Start Order you can take out 3 things.
Then there is an OPT in section known as SPLITS (let’s Split a box). This is why no one order is the same.

For security we keep the App on the website and off the Apple Store - it connects us directly with growers and food wholesalers and the profits are channelled back into reducing the prices for members. So you save up to 40% on produce that hasn't been stored and a heap of groceries on offer.

It's a community run and owned coop with the aim to change how the food system currently is working.

Box Divvy is -
*Good for your wallet *Good for your Health *Good for the Planet

Around 70% is from local growers seasonally (mostly greens) and Conventional/Sprayfree. See more on this at https://www.boxdivvy.com/how We will go Australia wide as the season change. We will not say interstate are Sprayfree as we have not visited their farms, even if they tell us that.

**Good for your wallet**
Safer than a supermarket and you'll save up to 40% on produce and groceries compared to online supermarkets. Why so inexpensive? We believe most of the profit should go back to paying our farmers fairly and to benefit our members. You get to know our growers - how cool is that!

So our Box Divvy community, is about supporting local growers, providing fresh, accessible and inexpensive fresh food to everyone – no matter where you live or your income. Grocery items some will be overseas as not commercially grown in Australia.

There are now over 5,500 families involved in Box Divvy's across Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains and South Coast.

**Good for your Health** This is all available to our community through an initiative with Western Sydney Diabetes Alliance Partners Western Sydney Diabetes Building Fresh Food Communities.

Box Divvy will only offer high nutritional products rather than like supermarkets where you have access to impulse purchasing of high energy but low in nutrition options.

It's a fun and educational way to connect with your neighbours, share recipes that fit in with your lifestyle, a place to share your cooking successes (and not so as we can learn from those too), learn how to store fresh produce, and how to use up what's left in the fridge before the net delivery.

I run the Hub and known as your Hubster: I communicate with you stories and recipes; encourage you to share your food stories, and have fun being involved in this innovative and easy way to shop.
Here is the link to join my Hub. When you register to join you receive a Welcome email with a User Guide. I'll also be in touch with you by phone to say hi.

Want to know more?

Here's more about how it works and how I run the Hub.

How it Works: Buy. Share. Save.
1. Everyone gets a Starting Order some 6-8 staples, amount on your household size, and you can take out 3 things. Yes, you can have a say each week what goes into this. Make a 'Wish List Vote'.
2. Opt In. Then we share boxes online known as SPLITS. You choose 1 or 2 boxes to share and look at what other members have put up to share. All done on our phone, ipad or computer using the smart Box Divvy App.
The App shares it all out.

At cutoff for order is for Tuesday 9pm.
Your cards are charged then at cutoff. Make sure you have funds ready please.

Payment security: We have a daily updated SSL certificate on our website keeping any information safe plus all transactions are through Eway payment gateway.

DECLINING CARDS
Happens sometimes due to another transaction taking out your funds or needing to update your Credit Card. You do get from us an email reminder a week before card due to update.

If card declines you receive an auto email saying recharge midday next day. This is day before delivery. But if it declines a at midday then it will be manually processed 5pm and you will be charged $5 admin fee as we pay someone to process these. You must pay day before delivery.

Ordering Cycle
Ordering is over a four day cycle.
It is expected you will order weekly and at least fortnightly. You can suspend orders before Order Creation but if going away let me know please.

**Good for the Planet**
No unnecessary packaging I encourage you to provide me with your own stand up, name labelled, insulated shopping bags, tubs, then for the small things like beans, mushrooms etc cloth bags/net bags/ or containers name labelled. Please wash them thoroughly before returning each week. Groceries - some already packed in soft plastic which we can recycle in RED bins.

Let’s Unsupermarket!
See how we work with growers here https://www.boxdivvy.com/how
Check out the website too www.boxdivvy.com
Quality Control and communication. Great flavoursome produce but be aware we don’t tell our growers what they must pack. So produce will come in different sizes and for example, it may on occasion have growing marks on it – the way nature intended.

We do not create food waste and if the produce is tasty and grown the way nature intended then we will take ‘curly’ cucumbers.

But, if you get a yucky something let me know within 24 hours of pick up with a photo please. Need the photo to show the growers. To make up we’ll either put in extras the following week or if I can, put in a credit request. You need to let me know within 24 hours of pickup or delivery. After that time frame I can’t be held responsible for how the produce has been stored.
Love your feedback and know how happy you are with my Hub and the food. Love you to put a review on this page.

If you have an issue please contact me directly so that I can see how I can resolve it. Constructive feedback is most helpful because if you don’t let me know I can’t aim to resolve it 😊 .

Exciting stuff. So join our Hub and Unsupermarket.
Any questions you find unanswered on the website feel free to message me.

Box Divvy is an App that connects you directly with farmers and food producers, and saves you some serious dough on food. At last an alternative to supermarkets.

21/06/2022

18/06/2022

Why Box Divvy?

There was a time when most things were kind of normal but now changing.
Farmers knew when to plant and when to harvest (except for the odd hail storm).
Times, they were a-boring – at least on the surface. Nothing seemed to be happening in decades.

Below the surface: well, that was a different story. The seeds of many of our problems were sown years or even decades ago, but it took an extraordinary event to lay bare the fault lines on which we had been busy building our society.

Covid seemed to amplify a range of other events that have now turned into the Perfect Storm:
Extreme weather events over the past five years, from drought and bushfires to floods and unseasonal cold-snaps – something scientists had been predicting would occur with greater frequency and intensity as a result of global warming – have created havoc for our farmers (not to mention for the several thousand people in Lismore who, 17 weeks after the event, still live in tents and make-shift accommodation).

Empty supermarket shelves and fridges for weeks on end. Who would have thought this possible?
Many small things are more likely to have an impact, rather than one silver bullet.

Stepping up to the plate.
Box Divvy.
Joining Box Divvy is a no-brainer.
A decentralised food system that aims for resilience.

Buy Save. Share

16/06/2022

Let’s check out the market.

First up is Moussa’s video update: red grapes for under $3 a kg, bananas down in price, plus local leek and cauliflowers.

Check it out: https://youtube.com/shorts/4--eegPTbTI.

Moussa has some great news this week. Not everything is hard to get. There's some good value to be had.

12/06/2022

Lismore Support: we’re upping the ante

Another 3 pallets or 1.8 tonnes of fresh produce – including 30 loaves of bread donated by Shepherd’s – were delivered to Lifeline in Lismore this week. Here is a message from Simone from Lifeline thanking the Box Divvy members for making this possible:


To date, more than 7.5 tonnes of fresh produce with a wholesale value of over $20,000 has been donated to flood victims, thanks to $13k worth of donations from members and Hubsters over the past month. As Box Divvy is matching dollar-for-dollar, we still have around $2250 left – enough for at least one more Slade delivery (they have agreed to continue free deliveries for another 2 weeks beyond 31 May) and a Bonny Hills delivery.

Simone told us that Lifeline is closing the Showground food distribution centre at the end of June – but we’re hopeful that we may end up with a few Hubs in Lismore. This would enable us to continue providing some further help - albeit at a smaller scale.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkrwCOKm0Lk

This is a thankyou from Simone at Lifeline to the wonderful Box Divvy community. All about community.Another 3 pallets or 1.8 tonnes of fresh produce – inclu...

11/06/2022

Here is the Market Update.

In fruit, you can’t go wrong:
• Granny Smith is our go-to apple this week, but really: ANY apple is good value – and so are pears
• Banana prices are edging down: pay around $2.72 this week
• Pineapple-with-tops (we had them about 6 weeks ago) are back: intensely sweet and just $3 each
• Watermelon is easing back below $2/Kg because – let’s face it – not a lot of people buy watermelon when there’s a snow blizzard raging outside. However, rockmelons ($2.88) are still excellent value
• ANY citrus is good – from Navels to Nova mandarins
• Quince is now heavily over-supplied: they have dropped to $1.25 each (or $3.75 a Kg) – the lowest price we’ve recorded for quince in at least 6 years
• Strawberries are still over $6 a punnet, but they taste sensational…

There are still plenty of value options in vegetables:
• Hass avocadoes are slowly coming down: this week, they’ll be 92c each
• Carrots are over-supplied and cheap – in part because they are harvested mechanically rather than by hand, so they are not impacted by the high cost of farm labour. Pay around $1.50 a Kg for loose carrots, and less than $3 a bunch for Dutch carrots. Most other root vegies are well-supplied, notably beetroot ($2.40 a Kg) and Daikon/white radish ($2.50 each)
• Local celery, cauliflower, kale and leeks from Alandale, Xerri Bros and Raymond Camilleri are still good value, even though they’ll have to ease back on the numbers a bit – due to the cold weather
• Garlic (from Mexico) is $12/kg and new season ginger (from QLD) is now below $10 a Kg. We can’t remember ginger selling this cheap (but old season ginger is still selling for $50 a Kg in the supermarkets. Seriously??)
• Capsicums are still great value – less than half price compared with the supermarkets
• Charlie Vella is taking a break with his continental eggplant. Instead, he’ll have Lebanese or baby eggplant at $5.75 a Kg
• Zucchini prices have eased a little to under $6 a Kg, whilst pumpkin is seriously cheap: J*P pumpkin is just $1 a Kg this week, and Butternut at $1.45 a Kg
• Leafy greens are expected to tighten up a little, but both Wombok and Green Cabbages are expected to sell for less $6 – and they go a long way in terms of covering several meals
• Tomatoes will remain expensive until supply out of Bowen picks up, but we’ll have some good value Grape Tomatoes for $2.50 a punnet
• Spuds are good, especially chat potatoes which have dropped below $2 a kg. We will also have white sweet potatoes this week: they have a red skin and white flesh, and are creamier than the Gold variety we usually sell. They’re also more suitable as deep-fried sweet potato chips as they are a little drier. They’re usually in short supply and hence expensive, but we can offer them for around $3.30 a kg this week – about half price compared to supermarkets.
The usual suspects are still pricy: broccoli, cucumber, regular tomatoes – but also now silverbeet.

11/06/2022

Moussa’s Market Update

On Thursdays, Moussa rings around our growers and suppliers to dig up whatever is going to be in good supply next week. No matter how tough and under-supplied the market is, he always comes up with the goods – like this week’s Granny Smith, carrots, J*P Pumpkin ($1 a Kg!) and a few more besides: https://youtube.com/shorts/B6lNDmWoENc

30/05/2022

A recipe to use up those in-season 🍎Pink Lady Apples🍎

Instead of using apple sauce I’m going to grate the apples instead, I will post the results!🤞

28/05/2022

Courtesy of Box Divvy Moss Vale 🙌 Coffs Harbour boxes look just as Delish as this - every Friday for pick up, sign up using the link☝️

28/05/2022

Leek anyone?

How versatile are leeks? 🌿

Don’t throw out the green tops: they are perfect in soup! Just make sure you cook them well.

The lower greens can be sliced thin and used in salads. The rest can go into a frittata, omelette or pasta sauce – and the roots? Use them for a vegie stock.

All that for $1.95 a leek, grown in Freemans Reach by Xerri Bros.

24/05/2022

Good to see supporting our Australian farmers.

Plenty of cauliflowers: let’s make some rice
It’s been full moon over Agnes Banks, so Sam and Val Micallef have been busy picking cauliflowers. Why not use half in a roast and the other half for cauliflower rice? Simply grate or give it a quick spin in a food processor. That said, there’s a world of hacks out there to make the perfect cauliflower rice: check it out here.

https://cookieandkate.com/cauliflower-rice-recipe/

30/04/2022

Some great recipe inspiration for the humble parsnip 😊