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25.01.2022 And that’s a wrap! Our 2020 Avocado season has now closed The whole team at Toohey Farming would like to send a massive shout out to the East Coast and Northern Territory Australia for supporting our farm.... We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing our harvest and bringing that green goodness into your kitchens to join your family for lunch, or brunch at the kitchen bench. We are ready for a well-earned break and we have some planning and regrouping to get ready for next season. In the meantime, we’ll keep you posted on what’s happening on the farm, and you might as well do the samewe always love to hear from you. Thank you Toohey Orchard Crew

25.01.2022 Hello my favourite avocado advocatesWelcome to another wintery Saturday afternoon. Our thoughts are with our friends in Victoria facing another lock down stintDont worry we can still get your avocados to your door for another couple of weeks before the season endsstock up! The beginning of the end...Counting down the last 4 weeks of orders Starts today... Our farm family have explained to me this morning that they will finish picking the main orchard this weekand that tells us we are in the final weeks of our avocado season, with only 1 orchard left to finish picking. It always brings mixed feelings somewhere between Thank god we made it and the sinking feeling of no avocados in the fruit bowl for a loooong time. Its a great idea to preserve your avocados in the freezer before the end of the season and theyll stay fresh for up to 6 months. Theyre best stored without the skin, either cut in half or mashed with a fork or food processor. Stick the halves in a zip lock bag (little lemon juice rub 1st) make sure to squeeze all the air out. A great idea with halves is to pop the seed back in between the bagged halves and vacuum seal the lot. I store puree in an airtight container with a little lemon or lime juice. Always make sure you have some Avocados safely tucked away in your freezer ready for the summer smoothie Season. Dont miss out on the last orders for 2020 Order by Sunday night for Monday deliveries www.buyavocadosonline.com.au Large box (4.7Kg) - $59 [Roughly 20 -25 avocados] Medium box (2.7Kg) - $47 [Roughly 15 -18 avocados] FREE Delivery to your door NSW, ACT, VIC, QLD & NT Each avocado weighs between 100 -300 grams and each order will have a mix of sizes due to the fact we pretty much pack straight off the trees. For those that size really does matter...you can choose ONLY large ones for an extra $10 and our packing crew will find you the largest ones of all. Locals only Pick Up packs are now available in store at The Barn in Ravenshoe and at Mt Garnet BP (For our truckies at the NortWest gate) and Malanda Seafood. 4Kg of our loveliest odd bods in a re-usable hessian sack with a peek-a-boo window A whole lot of yum + cute going on! If you organise your avocados, you can pretty much keep this healthy and nutritious fruit on your table all year round. So many health benefits Avocados are a great source of vitamins C, E, K, and B-6, as well as riboflavin, niacin, folate, pantothenic acid, magnesium, and potassium. They also provide lutein, beta-carotene, and omega-3 fatty acids. Although most of the calories in an avocado come from fat, don't shy away! These oils help to protect against heart disease and lower blood pressure, and theyre recommended as part of a balanced diet to prevent high cholesterol. Happy avocadoing

23.01.2022 I went for a quick wander out to the old orchard where your orders are being picked. Some very old trees amongst this orchard, and I felt a quiet respect...like when you're introduced to an old aunt. Super exciting to see all the extra produce that was carefully introduced over the last 18 months to create biodiversity. It's been huge amounts of work for the team but the fruit speaks for itself.Thank you to all the customers who have purchased from us already. We still have a long way to go to sell the harvest, but every bit helps. Anyway, I though you all might like to have a quick look around with me...

20.01.2022 Here's a few yummy things to do with your avocados... Just in time for the return of catching up with friends!

19.01.2022 Good Morning everyone We are all going to be out and about on the farm during the days over coming weeks, so we will be responding to messages of an evening. If there is anything that needs urgent attention please contact us via the farm mobile 0428 661 264. Thank you again to everyone that placed orders over the weekend...we really appreciate your continued support for the farm!!... #wehavethebestcustomers Happy avocadoing

19.01.2022 Delivery UpdateThe Australia Post crisis we could never have predicted. We continue to face unprecedented timesits lucky were tough...aaargh! Australia Post has updated us this week that they can no longer guarantee any delivery times, and although orders are dispatched via Express Post bags, these are being delivered in 5 - 9 days for a lot of customers instead of the arriving in the previously guaranteed 3 5. Most of these deliveries are arriving safe and sound with p...roducts still waiting to ripen and delicious as usual, but there is the odd order that is arriving with an avocado pre-smashed for toastand not really an Instagram moment if you know what I mean! We are managing this as best we can by reaching out to customers when timelines stretch beyond expectation, and work together with our customers to resolve product delivery issues. If you have any concerns, please get in contact either Facebook Messenger, email or phone. We are very responsive and have overlapping monitoring of all messaging optionsand we just dont want people worrying about whats happening with deliveries. I suppose you could call this rugged testing of our service delivery, and even when were tearing our hair out just a littleWe truly welcome feedback and the opportunity to improve because we believe in our product and farm methodology, and will maintain a serious commitment to the future of doing business in way...direct to you. We have already made many changes from simply listening to what our customers tell us! We are sourcing new packaging and delivery options to try and make things a bit easier for both our customers and ourselves. Its been a tough weekbut we will soldier on. The main message is we are all about getting great produce to customers and doing our best to wow with customers service. We simply ask that customers work with us to resolve delivery issues that none of us can control. #buyavocadosonline #supportafarmer #buyfromthebush #farmgatetoplate #buyaustralian #weareallinthistogether

18.01.2022 Goodness comes in all shapes and sizes...just like people! Thought you'd like to see some of our kooky and cute file... We'll show you ours if you show us yours! What have you got going on in your backyard or vegie patch???... Photo credits to Janette...our farm crew collector of weird stuff @janettejohnston

18.01.2022 Great work Jane... What a legend!

18.01.2022 Our lovely customers send in pictures all the time...to let us know their order has arrived...or something yummy they have created with our fruit

17.01.2022 Hi everyone...hope you got some warm socks on for tonight brrrr The farm have just let me know their super keen picking crew accidentally picked more than they needed for orders yesterday...and we have about another 8 orders worth of avocados that we will be sending out tomorrow for any orders placed tonight! If you were umming and arrrring about whether or not to place an order...you can still have a box of green goodies on your doorstep by next weekend...you know you want t...o...and lets face it you probably darn well deserve it! jump on now and get a box www.buyavocadosonline.com.au I've just been busy ordering for all my poor mates in Melbs stuck in COVID lock down, poor buggers...nothing better than a box of avocados to cheer you up.

17.01.2022 Welcome to Saturday morningQuite possibly the favourite time of the week for avocado on toast! Our avocados are having a ripper season and enjoying the winter sun. I dont mind it myself actually. So, we are very pleased to see our avocados starting to appear at local organic grocers around Melbourne over the past couple of weeks. They have little stickers on them like the one below. If youve managed to spot onewed love to see your pictures of them in the Melbs wild! An...Continue reading

15.01.2022 We are picking fruit from the heart of the orchard this week as we move into the last half of the seasonSome of our best produce will be picked and sent out across Australia over the next month or so. We try and keep things pretty simple and stay grateful for the awesome support you have all shown us. #wehavethebestcustomers So great that we can jump on to Facebook and chat to our customers, and see all the wonderful comments, reviews and sharing that you bewdiful people are...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Happy Sunday everybody...hope you've all got your gear back on after Naked Gardening day yesterday in this brisk weather! Just a quick update that we will be packing orders on Tuesday for this week's delivery. Remember to order BEFORE 2pm Monday to have yours sent this week. Happy avocadoing!

15.01.2022 Awww thanks Mr. Morrison

13.01.2022 Mmmmm This looks yum!

13.01.2022 This looks delicious! ...would make a super bento box keto lunch too!

13.01.2022 Thanks to the orchard paparazzi @janettejohnston for today's odd bod collectables

12.01.2022 Necessity is the mother of invention! The big news of the week is are very excited to announce we have just been certified by Australian DEMETER Bio-Dynamic as In - Conversion' Organic this week to acknowledge that we have chalked up in excess of 12 months of full organic practices on our farm. Hooray!! It has been a 20+ year dream of Mark & his family to become an organic farm...and this important step is a real milestone in the journey in syntropic farming methods.... Every week we learn something new and thanks to our customers for keeping us in the loop about whats working and whats notto help us keep improving how we do things. This past week of avocado deliveries went out across the Eastern half and Northern Territories of Australia in new packaging! Whilst the express post satchels were very successful for most people some customers had issues, so we went back to the drawing board to try something better and a little more streamlined. Not everything went to plan there either but thankfully again #wehavethebestcustomers and we have been able to work something out between us. Please get in contact with us if something goes wrong with your deliveryWe would much rather know to be able to solve it for you. The new boxes each had our fresh designed stickers popped on the side, so you are greeted with the big smiles of our farm family along with some instructions on how to get the best out of your order..which what was apparently an open invitation to some Australia Post workers to smash themselves an avo. At first, we were pretty cranky about the whole thing, and even more disappointed for our customers that received bashed boxes with missing fruitbut you know whatwere STILL all in this together! And just maybe the folks that liberated those avocados. really, really needed them??? Who knows This message is to all the Australia Post delivery people that helped themselves to avocados this week We genuinely hope you enjoy eating our avocados! We will accept this as payment in advance for the safe delivery of our produce for the rest of the season and will hope that you can muster yourselves to do better. Nuf said! Right - O...Who has some delicious yum avocado delights to show us? We want the weird wonderful and spectacular! Go

11.01.2022 Hello to all our avocado lovers out there! There have been some changes to how we do things that we wanted to let everyone know about. We are continually evolving and improving how we do thingsand honestly most of it is driven by what our customers tell us they want, and things they dont like. For us its all about delivering the best customer experience we can and staying focused on our goal of delivering affordable, high quality produce direct to our customers. Clean foo...d that tastes great and doesnt cost the earth! So whats different? We have had to review packaging to ensure your order arrives the way it leftin one piece! Our customers have been keeping us informed about their deliveries and we have had to slightly decrease the weight in our medium orders to 2.7kg to prevent the packaging from tearing open on the way, and we also realised that some delivery areas just need sturdier packaging if we want the order to make it to you. We are patiently waiting for our new packaging order to get to us (yeswe are all waiting on the mail right nowbut its almost here!) and this will be rolled out seamlessly once it hits the farm over the next week or so. We believe in our hearts that customers are sick of paying for avocados in supermarkets that are tasteless and bruised, and playing avocado roulette whenever you want an avo on toast. We are still refining how we do things and we take all feedback to heartgood, bad or otherwise, and take action to improve. We may not get it perfect every single time, but we stand behind the quality of our produce and the service we provide to customers. If something doesnt go to plan, we are here to rectify it. And you will always get what you paid for. Ive got to say it again #wehavethebestcustomers and we really appreciated the immense amount of support we have received! Because of you all we have been able to innovate the way we do business and offer a unique service to send our avocados to people all over the East coast and Northern Australia. Thank you!

11.01.2022 That looks a bit yum...hands up who wants some brekky in bed tomorrow?

11.01.2022 And thats a wrap! Our 2020 Avocado season has now closed The whole team at Toohey Farming would like to send a massive shout out to the East Coast and Northern Territory Australia for supporting our farm.... We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing our harvest and bringing that green goodness into your kitchens to join your family for lunch, or brunch at the kitchen bench. We are ready for a well-earned break and we have some planning and regrouping to get ready for next season. In the meantime, well keep you posted on whats happening on the farm, and you might as well do the samewe always love to hear from you. Thank you Toohey Orchard Crew

10.01.2022 Going goingLast 2 weeks of order avocados online for this season. To quote the fabulous Elvis Presley...Its now or neverwell not never, just until next season! But thats still a loooong time between Toohey avocados. As we wrap up our seasonwe want to send out a big thank you to all the beautiful people that ordered from our farm this seasonsome customers 7 times let me add! We are humbled by the support and grateful for your orders that kept our farm ticking away thro...Continue reading

10.01.2022 Aaargh....I just wrote you all the biggest post to go with this share...and then fat fingered it into non-existence. Sigh...breath in the good...breath out the bad!! I'll wrap it up again with this... We are starting to see the pressure cracks with some of our customers. Some days we feel the brunt of their frustrations of all the things that none us can control ...some days in ourselves. Like what has Auspost done with my order...or why hasn't my fruit ripened yet????... It's okay! We ARE all in this together and we got you We just want to let you know that we are doing our absolute best to get your avocados to you and you will ALWAYS get what you paid for. We have seen a big improvement in delivery times over the past week as Auspost throws big resources into the mix. We have had lots of updates from customers who thought their fruit were just not going to ripen...and they have. We are here to support you... our customers keep this family farm running...no ifs ands or buts! If you can muster it...please be patient with the process...we all know it's not quite pandemic perfect...but it does work. But if you are feeling concerned, please get in touch via email, messenger or simply phone. We will listen and help get things sorted! ...and in the meantime....take care of each other and don't forget to stand barefoot on the grass if you need to. Happy avocadoing...and love to you all

09.01.2022 Hello again avocado advocates After much gnashing of teeth, tears from the marketing team and just a sprinkle of IT magic from our resident guru, Jennifer @ Atherton Web Design...we have rectified the freight argument between our website and Australia Post...and tadaa we are back to normal pricing with delivery to your door included to QLD, NSW, VIC, ACT & NT!!! We are moving over to boxes for delivery to locations we have identified with issues, so some customers will start ...to see their orders arrive with these next week. We are still waiting on deliveries for the larger boxes...but they are underway. Thank to you all those customers who jumped online and purchased even though it was costing more with the freight component...you bloody legends. Thank you also to all the messages of support...we are definitely feeling the love! NEXT ORDERS GET PACKED MONDAY 18th Jump on to the website to place your order www.buyavocadosonline.com.au Large satchel (4.7Kg) - $50 [Roughly 20 -25 avocados] Medium satchel Hass (2.7Kg) - $40 [Roughly 15 -18 avocados] Each avocado weighs between 100 -300 grams and each order will have a mix of sizes due to the fact we pretty much pack straight off the trees. #wehavethebestcustomers #buyavocadosonline #supportafarmer #buyfromthebush #farmgatetoplate #buyaustralian #weareallinthistogether #smashanavoathome

09.01.2022 How is everyone doing out there? Maybe you are having a few visitors for Mother's Day with the loosening up of restrictions...finally a day where you ladies are getting your spoil on! A huge number of orders went out last Monday - A massive thank you to everyone that ordered! #wehavethebestcustomers Our pick and pack super squad have their groove going now and they are prepped and ready for... Monday's new dispatches. For those of you that haven't placed your first order...your time is now. Consumers vote everyday on how they want the world to be. Now more than ever, you each have the opportunity to drive retailers of all sizes to step up and deliver exactly what you needSet your standards high and accept nothing less! We firmly believe that farming must not only be sustainable; it has to be regenerative. This is the ethos behind how we manage our farm with the end goal of delivering quality, affordable produce direct to our customers. We have been told so many stories by our customers that sound a bit like this "Went into XYZ (please insert your local corporate retail giant of choice) supermarket to buy avocadospaid a pretty penny for them too. I always buy a few because you dont know what they look like inside. Went to use them for brekky Sunday morning and the first one was half yuk, the second one was pretty good with some chunks out of it, and the third one was a disaster. Anyway, I managed to get myself some avo on toast at the end of it so thats the main thing but its a bit annoying." Ultimately, its all of you that will decide whether you want to preserve a direct relationship with your farmers, and get your produce paddock to plate. We have stepped up our end to make it easier than ever for you to get delicious, quality, herbicide free avocados delivered straight to your house Jump on to the website and order yours today and be part of the new way of doing things. Good Value + Yum + Too easy! https://www.buyavocadosonline.com.au/ Large satchel Hass (4.7Kg) - $50 Medium satchel Hass (3Kg) - $40 Free Delivery to VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD & NT #buyavocadosonline #supportafarmer #buyfromthebush #farmgatetoplate #buyaustralian #weareallinthistogether #smashanavoathome

08.01.2022 We love seeing our babies arrive safe and sound! Thanks Patty.

08.01.2022 That's Sunday lunch sorted!

07.01.2022 Mothers Day is almost here! Doesnt your mum deserve a surprise bag of avocados delivered to her door? Jump on to the website and order your mum some....orders will cut off on Monday 2pm and we will be crazy packing and sending them all on Tuesday after the long weekend wraps up...don't miss out!! https://www.buyavocadosonline.com.au/... No need to go brave the shops in these crazy times...you can buy our Hass avocados online with FREE delivery right to your door. Large satchel Hass (4.7Kg) - $50 Medium satchel Hass (3Kg) - $40 Free Delivery to VIC, NSW, QLD & NT We are a 3rd generation farming family on the Tablelands of Far North Qld who have changed our farm to syntropic methodology. Syntropic Farming is about using bio-diverse eco-systems instead of chemicals to create abundant food crops. Using various different plants in strategic positions, we recreate the forest canopy to mimic a forests interdependent plant relationship...it's just like companion planting in your vegie patch but on a BIG scale. This helps plants to grow better by returning nutrients to the soil. It's all about sustainable agriculture that good for the earth and everyone on it! #buyavocadosonline #supportafarmer #buyfromthebush #farmgatetoplate #buyaustralian #weareallinthistogether #smashanavoathome

06.01.2022 If Jamie says so...

05.01.2022 This is a cute little video I thought you'd like about ripening your avocados... Next orders are being sent Monday...jump on and order yours

04.01.2022 #4 Yaaas! ...Some super ideas in here!

03.01.2022 Hello Saturday afternoon avocado advocates! Well we are roughly half way through the season now and the fruit are really hitting their straps with flavour and size. Jump online this weekend and orderwe are packing again Monday! Its been some crazy Jumanji ride this seasonIn the mix weve had ... CoVID and the Australia Post meltdown Followed up by a quick change of packaging to boxes and the Australia Post Grand Theft Avo No matter whatour customers have kept placing orders and supported us through this big old roller coaster of a ride! Finally, in the past few weeks we have achieved our Organic certificationIn Conversion Organic with much cheering and hi 5ing amongst the team! Months of really hard work coming together for the win. We continue to muster our spirits and stick to the original game plan to get our In Conversion Organic ((I just love saying it ) produce direct to the customers at an affordable price. What it really means is that we pack and send all shapes and sizes of avocadosnot just the specific size and weight demanded by the big chain retailersI mean what do they think we do with the other 50% of our harvest??? Every one of those avocados taste just as damn goodgrown and ripened naturally, perfect little morsels every time! Sure, they might not be Instagram and catalogue photo opportunity gradeor they dont quite fit the criteria of the lazer sizing picker But why should perfectly good fruit be wasted? We cant get our head around it the way it works, so we just stopped heading down that path. We are absolutely committed to sustainable agriculture We want our farm to be there for the generations to come right alongside the bees and the wildlife and all the soil microbes that make the whole environment healthy and surrounding forests viable. Best thing everyou get to help make the difference by the choices you make when buying your food and everything else! We have witnessed an amazing shift in the world through this pandemic, and now all we have to do is keep going! #nevergoback www.buyavocadosonline.com.au Large box (4.7Kg) - $50 [Roughly 20 -25 avocados] Medium box (2.7Kg) - $40 [Roughly 15 -18 avocados] FREE Delivery to your door NSW, ACT, VIC, QLD & NT LOCALS ONLY Pick-Up-Packs available at The barn in Ravenshoe $17 for 4kg in gorgy little hessian sacks with a peek-a-boo window! https://www.facebook.com/The-Barn-Ravenshoe-386203941551020/ Each avocado weighs between 100 -300 grams and each order will have a mix of sizes due to the fact we pretty much pack straight off the trees. For those that size really does matter...you can choose ONLY large ones for an extra $10 and our packing crew will find you the largest ones of all. #smashanavoathome #buyavocadosonline #supportafarmer #buyfromthebush #farmgatetoplate #buyaustralian #smashanavo #supportsmallbusiness

03.01.2022 Take a wander through our Orchards and farm on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland.

01.01.2022 I'm still trying to work out how I approve Catherine's post on our timeline...but in the meantime, I really wanted to share her comments (cause it made us all feel proud to hear it!) from one of our darling customers. I know I'm regularly hashtagging it...but we have so many truely gorgeous people amongst our customers. You have all reminded us why we love being farmers, and we are enjoying working hard to get you orders out each week....it's very satisfying Thank you again Catherine...In fact the whole lot of you....give yourself a big ol' fist bump from us. can't help it..#wehavethebestcustomers

01.01.2022 Hello to all our lovely avocado advocatesHow cold has it been at your place this last couple of days? Its a beautiful day up here on the Tablelands and I hope the sun is reaching in your window wherever you are! Our avocado season is winding down and we are in the final 3 weeks of orders online. If you were hoping to get one last order of organic in conversion avocados delivered to your doornow is your time! Remember they will keep up to 8 weeks tucked into your crispera...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Well there you go... Time to place your order!! www.buyavocadosonline.com.au