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What size should I get?
The size of our boxes are based on feeding you for most nights of the week, plus a lunch here or there. So if you eat at home almost every night and eat veggies in every meal, you probably should grab the size up.
While I endeavour for each box to be a similar size, it's inevitable that things fluctuate a little, but the dollar value is always there.
Small shares are designed for one adult or two people who want to also order a few additional items weekly, with roughly 6 items in each box equating to $30.
Medium shares are designed for a couple who eats a moderate amount of veg or a small family that supplements with additional items, with roughly 10 items in each box equating to $45.
Large shares are for big families or a few adults who are champion veggie-eaters! This box will contain roughly 10-12 items but with greater quantity - like 2 bags of peas or 2 heads of broccoli instead of one, or a whole cabbage instead of half. This box equates to $60
What can I expect each week?
We aim to craft each box with a good mix of roots, leafy greens, fruiting crops, and herbs with as many favourites as possible whilst also expanding your palate here and there. Expect a glorious varied mix of veg including:
- Scrumptious cool-season brassicas including classic broccoli, purple sprouting broccoli, cauliflower, beautiful fractal romanesco, and gai lan (Chinese broccoli).
- Warm-season fruit crops including zucchinis, button squash, cucumbers, and cobs of sweet corn.
- From November the tomatoes will begin! Punnets of rainbow cherries and large slicing tomatoes galore. Plus fragrant basil.
- Bags of sweet and crunchy snow peas and sugar snap peas and then later green beans.
- A variety of cabbages from large green ones to pointy ones to red ones to wombok.
- Crunchy roots with their greens often intact like carrots, beetroot, turnips & radishes.
- Bags of cut greens like rocket, salad mix, English spinach, pea shoots, tatsoi and purple mizuna.
- Some palate-expanders including flavoursome fennel, bitter radicchio, and squat little alien kohlrabi.
- Luscious bunches of kale, chard, bok choy, parsley, dill, coriander, celery, spring onions & leeks.
- Guest starring produce from our local friends and farmers like rhubarb, potatoes, and pumpkins.
What if I hate/can't eat X veggie?
Before you purchase, please message us about it! We can happily accommodate the occasional dietary requirement but if your preferences are too restrictive, this whole subscription thing may not be for you. And that's okay! You're certainly welcome to order exactly what you'd like on a weekly basis.
Modifying your box every week just represents too much extra work and removes the benefit for us. We encourage you to explore your weekly veggie box with curiosity and excitement to try new things!
Plus, if you collect your box from the farm we often have extra bits and pieces that you can swap an item for.
What if I'm going to be away some weeks?
That's okay! We have 3 options:
1. You can either arrange for a loved one to receive and enjoy your box,
2. I can arrange for it to be given away to someone in need, or
3. Login to your membership manager and skip the week BEFORE midnight on the Tuesday of the week.
That being said, the ethos of a Community Supported Agriculture scheme still stands. By becoming a member of this vegetable club you are integral part of the farm by giving us a certain amount of stability in sales so we know how much we need to grow and how much money we're going to make by servicing our members. So please keep that in mind and only skip a week when you need to - ie. when you're going away and can not find anyone to enjoy your share for you.
If you find yourself wanting to skip a week because you're not getting through the vegetables, then please size down instead. If you're just not enjoying it, then please depart the club to make your spot available to someone else who is better positioned to enjoy it!