Food Connect Brisbane in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Organic food shop

Food Connect Brisbane

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: (07) 3216 7777

Address: 3/8 Textile Crescent, Salisbury QLD 4107 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.foodconnect.com.au

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24.01.2022 A interesting article written by Tabitha Caravan, from the Science Communications Team at ANU. Studying the impact of participation in biosensitive food provisioning systems, PhD researcher Bronwyn Wilkes explains: These schemes help to nurture a range of benefits that are important to the fabric of society and the connections between us.

23.01.2022 Some quality viewing tomorrow! Please check us out

23.01.2022 Honey Roasted Purple Carrots - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week39recipe-2876986

23.01.2022 Happening in the Food Connect Shed next Saturday, held by Maya from MYK's Kefir. Take a journey into a sustainable world of brewing tibicos (water kefir), taste the seasonal flavours & make your own on the day!

22.01.2022 Who needs some last minute fresh local produce? UPDATE: EOW boxes still available, now at $50 each with the following goodies inside: Green Curly Kale Killarney Cream Potatoes... Sprouts Cos Lettuce Sugarloaf Cabbage Zucchinis 100g leafy greens (lettuce mix, coriander or baby spinach) Roma Tomatoes Capsicums Silverbeet Imperial Mandarins Apples Oranges See more

22.01.2022 Want something to inspire on your morning commute? Listen to Emma-Kate's Interview with Our Permaculture Life: Morag Gamble on the Sense Making in a Changing World podcast, all about Food Connect, weaving permaculture thinking into business with heart, and the future of food in Brisbane. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eudxkHU3kFU

21.01.2022 A little something for your afternoon commute: Rob and Emma-Kate chatting on the Pip Magazine Podcast about Food Connect's journey from a lost farm in Victoria to a thriving, community-powered business, and why we hope you'll backyard-garden us out of a job! https://www.pipmagazine.com.au//pip-podcast-32-food-conne/

21.01.2022 Have you tried Lin's jam tarts yet? Made with organic flour and butter and four of her famous Jammed With Love jams, these bite sized treats are perfect for all the morning teas at this time of year - pop a box in your next order and you'll be sorted! Mixed boxes contain 3 of each of the following jam tarts: peach, pineapple, plum and mango.

21.01.2022 Celebrating Father's Day & Our Community - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek36-2876914

20.01.2022 Green beans, pink ladies and a rainbow of new products - https://mailchi.mp/foodcon/week-18-specials-and-new-2877578

19.01.2022 Come and join the Food Connect Family - We are hiring now! - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek35-2876926

19.01.2022 Congratulations to Young Farmers Connect on the special edition of Sowing Seeds Magazine. 150+ pages of inspiring words, photos and artwork from young farmers, on regenerative farming, circular economies, foraging and more. Pre-order your copy (and get supporter membership to Young Farmers Connect) here:... https://www.sowingseedsmagazine.com//e9d0sceajhln48rt3xy0q

18.01.2022 Purple Carrots | Bagels | Black Sapotes - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek39-2876982

18.01.2022 What's a social enterprise? | Specials | Circular fashion - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek46

18.01.2022 Competition! Name our new Electric Van and win a Mini Box - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek37-2876938

18.01.2022 End of Week Boxes We are going to have some bountiful beauties this week for only $50, which is a supreme bargain! These boxes are HUGE!! Please email us on [email protected] or phone us on 32167777 for us to reserve one for you to collect on Thursday.

17.01.2022 You might remember that a few weeks ago, Courtney Wilson and the ABC Landline crew were filming behind the scenes at Food Connect... The story is about to go live, not just on Landline but across the ABC News network, so if you want to come behind the scenes of what we do, why we do it and - most importantly - the people who help us do it, you can tune in for snippets on: ABC 24 breakfast, Friday Various local ABC radio stations throughout QLD, Friday... QLD 7pm ABC News bulletin, Saturday And of course, the full feature on Landline, 12:30pm Sunday. In the meantime, here's a taster: https://www.abc.net.au//social-enterprise-food-co/12697426

17.01.2022 Orders closing! Potatoes, hot sauce & more | BBQ kofta kebab recipe - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week17-orders-closing

16.01.2022 Happening at Food Connect Shed: Your Local Food Hub. There's been loads of interest in stall-holding, so if you've got some great old pieces that deserve a new home, contact the Events team quickly!

16.01.2022 Katie from Coolmunda has sent us this video through of sheep and the odd llama keeping the weeds down at the olive orchard. We hope you enjoy this relaxing little footage.

16.01.2022 Our Inaugural Humungous Fungus Award Winner | Glass Bottle Milk is Back | Almond Specials - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek38-2876962

16.01.2022 Hello Sweetness | Asparagus | Pasta Sauce - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek40-2877002

16.01.2022 Fun with Flatbreads! | This Week's Specials (don't forget, orders close 10pm tonight) - https://mailchi.mp/fo/week46-recipe-gado-gado-salad-2877154

15.01.2022 Jammy Delights and Leavain Bread - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week34recipe-2876878

14.01.2022 We have a few End Of Week boxes available this week, hands up if you want one! We make these when we have spare produce at the end of the week (hence the name). We pack in about $55 - $65 worth of spare produce. A great way to avoid wasting our precious fruit and veg.

14.01.2022 Spicy Delights and Sweet Onions - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek35-2876902

13.01.2022 This weekend! Nothing over $20! Refresh your summer wardrobe at our Upcycle event this coming Sunday

12.01.2022 This Friday at 4pm, our own Rob Pekin will be chatting to Geert Hendrix of Farmwall about the need to improve fresh produce accessibility in cities, and how urban spaces can be transformed to efficiently and sustainably produce food. Previously working with businesses to grow food on-site, FarmWall is now helping the average eater do the same, no matter how small your living space. Tune in to watch or hear their discussion, and ask questions of your own, through our Food Connect Community Facebook group. If you're not already a member, it's where Food Connect staff, customers and friends come together to share tips, recipes, interesting links (all the good stuff!).

11.01.2022 A big happy birthday to the Ipswich Good Food Group!! Growing strong and nourishing local foodies since 2012, these folks have been advocates for supporting farmers of Food Connect. We wish you many years of bountiful adventures!!

11.01.2022 Here we are again Try us out, more so commit to the growers who want to feed you and your family

10.01.2022 Happening now! Tune in to the "main stage" presentation to listen to pitches from 8 great social enterprises (including Rob, talking about Food Connect Shed: Your Local Food Hub), and pop into the virtual expo booths to chat to the founders directly. https://fb.me/e/3eUQWpRin

10.01.2022 Please extend a warm welcome to Wren and her family as our new Coorparoo City Cousin! Having been with us since April this year, we thank you for opening up your home to us Wren! Here are a few words from our new Coorparoo City Cousin..... "At 'The Coop'* we're very pleased to be able to support local farmers and to access to fresh seasonal produce sustainably. As a City Cousin it is great to be able to support others in our community to do the same. Our kids love unpacking our box to see what goodies are inside - the blood oranges were a great surprise last month, generating lots of conversation! *while it started as a joke, this name for our intergenerational, dual-living household stuck."

10.01.2022 Sam & Emma's Hearty Vego Cottage Pie - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week35recipe-2876882

08.01.2022 Gado Gado Style Salad | Specials | Last chance for Christmas hams - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week46-recipe-gado-gado-salad

08.01.2022 Happy WorldEVDay! For this day of celebrating sustainable transport, we're announcing the name of our new Renault Kangoo ZE van! The names were voted on by Food Connect staff, and as the winner was suggested by a few people we had to do a draw. Congratulations Gabi Van Willigen, you've won a mini box! We'll be in touch.

08.01.2022 We've got 10 free tickets to this Avid Reader Bookshop online cooking demonstration and author's discussion to give away... but you have to be in the Food Connect Community group to claim them. Are you a member yet? Durkhanai Ayubi's parents fled Afghanistan with their young children in 1985. When their family-run restaurant Parwana opened its doors in Adelaide in 2009, their vision was to share with the world their family memories through the delights of Afghan cuisine, infused with Afghanistan's rich historical culture and traditions of generosity and hospitality, to offer a more complete picture of the country they had left behind. https://fb.me/e/cMfBkukdf

07.01.2022 School holidays are almost here! What are the go-to snack supplies at your place? Are you stocked up?

07.01.2022 A wonderful story put together by the talented Rani Chayeler for ABC Science. With celebrity appearances by Costa Georgiadis Official, Robert Pekin, Franco at Lunar Farm Organics, Amanda Russell, Emma Scragg, Ben Fenton-Smith, Emma Healy's hubby Dave, and one of our wonderful customers. As Costa said, "Putting a face to food... that's the future, because then we build connection. And when we build connection, that's love. And when we love the planet, we change the way we connect with it forever, and we'll teach that to the generations to come."

07.01.2022 Special offer for kids & community sports We’ve got half-time sorted! Is someone in your family regularly working up an appetite on the soccer pitch or netball court at this time of year? Or doing the angels’ work, making sure the oranges are picked up and sliced before the match?... For kids and community sports organisations, we're waiving our minimum wholsale order, so your club can easily access our sprayfree fruit at lower wholesale prices (while supporting our local farmers!) when you order in bulk and pick up from our Salisbury HQ - no more game-day scrambling! Get 9kg of oranges for $38 (that's $4.22/kg - less than what the major supermarkets are charging for what could be from 'Australia or America') plus more "social distancing friendly" fruits like mandarins, apples, bananas. To get your club registered as a wholesale customer or for more information, email Erin on [email protected] (want these prices but not part of a sports club? Ask Erin about starting a bulk buyers group with your mates!) Wholesale orders close 12pm every Thursday for pick up the following week.

07.01.2022 Exciting discussions happening in November folks!

07.01.2022 Bringing a whole new category of local acts! Congratulations to members of the Food Connect family, City Winery Brisbane, on the new partnership with The Tivoli Brisbane. So fantastic to see a Brisbane icon supporting our local farmers! This week's Brisbane Festival performance guests will be among the first to try the new menu, featuring Food Connect produce packed with fresh, seasonal flavours. https://www.hospitalitymagazine.com.au/the-tivoli-announce/

06.01.2022 Please extend a warm welcome to the new Kelvin Grove City Cousin at the Quaker House, Tania and her partner Colin Here is Tania's story... "My Food Connect journey began back in 2004 when our now sixteen-year-old twin daughters were babies. One day I wandered into the bakery on Tarragindi Road with the double pram, looking for something sweet to counteract a sleepless night, and got chatting with Robert, who was buying his lunch! I liked the idea of local produce and the ...more I understood about community supported agriculture, the more appealing it seemed. We were City Cousins when the girls were toddlers, then we moved to WA and came back nearly nine years later with an extra kid, our now eleven year old son, in tow. Its great to be eating with Food Connect again and I am looking forward to being City Cousins once more. My kids will roll their eyes at this, but of all the beautiful food we get from Food Connect, the broccoli is my hands-down favourite. Its so sweet and crisp that I eat it raw all the time."

06.01.2022 Ugly Duck Strawberry Jam and all the Bread - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek34-2876874

06.01.2022 Bringing to you this week's Large Veg Box Each week we design and curate this box for you so that over the month you receive a wide variety of local veg Happy feasting everyone!

05.01.2022 Competition time! This week it happened, Food Connect has an electric van! For 10 years Rob has been dreaming of this and here it is, a Renault Kangoo E.V. A quiet achiever and a dream to drive. We would love you all to send your suggestions for a name for the EV to [email protected]. ... The best name wins a free Mini Box! See more

04.01.2022 Some great Friday reading on the the joys and impacts of knowing your farmer, ways to go about it (no matter where you are) and how the Food Connect Shed: Your Local Food Hub fits in. https://www.theguardian.com//how-to-buy-direct-from-austra

03.01.2022 Roasted Jarrahdale Pumpkin & Onion Warm Salad with Lemony Quark and Bush Kraut - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week38recipe-2876966

03.01.2022 Strawberry Chamomile Frozen Yoghurt - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week37recipe-2876942

02.01.2022 Lentil Paninis with Japanese Miso Fermented Hot Sauce - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/week36recipe-2876918

01.01.2022 We are super excited to be kicking off our partnership with Brisbane Tool Library, giving the Food Connect community 20% off memberships to their extensive 'library of things.' Membership gives you access to their impressive stash of power tools, gardening gear, kitchen appliances, camping goods and more, saving your wallet and our environment. This team of volunteering legends share our circular economy principles, and make all of this available so you can borrow not buy, re...ducing unnecessary consumption and diverting all of those bought-it-used-it-once-and-let-it-go-to-rust tools from landfill. To sign up and access your discount, visit them in person or email [email protected] and quote BTLFC2021M Keep an eye out for sustainability, low-waste and DIY tips from their team over the coming months,

01.01.2022 Since 2004 weve been connecting South East QLD and beyond with an ethical network of local regenerative farmers, bringing you ecologically-grown food thats in season and super fresh. Buying our produce: Supports local farmers (we pay them up to 4x what big supermarkets do).... Stocks your fridge with nutrient-dense produce that is full of flavour. Reinvests your cash into regional communities and ethical businesses. Reduces your environmental footprint through our short supply chain, low food miles, solar-powered HQ, no waste circular economy principles, the CO2 sequestered by our farmers Social value in a box, we here at Food Connect support a Common-Unity. We want to connect you with our farmers through farm tours and with each other through events in the Shed and twilight markets

01.01.2022 Food Connect is Hiring! - https://mailchi.mp/foodconnect/ordersopenweek37-2876950