Is there a genuine desire for fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables in Canberra?

I would love it. $50 per week from us at least. Problem is, we’re in the deep south – would you come out here?

I’m currently using Canberra Organics. I’d be happy to support local business if the value is there. Good Luck

Sounds like a great idea – maybe add bread and milk and you could have a real success! Might be worth having a look at http://www.aussiefarmers.com.au/ which seem to be doing the same sort of thing in other states.

Yes, I would be very interested in either conventional or organic home delivered produce to the tune of $30-$40 a week. Do it, do it, do it!

I’d love a weekly delivery of say $30 for a small box or $50 for a large box. Living in Queanbeyan and working at the AIrport makes North Lyneham, and both Northside and Southside farmers markets a bit far to drive.

Food miles from farm to store are worth keeping in mind. However, 2 tonne of fruit n veg in a 2 tonne truck for 1000km is way less environmentally damaging as 10 kilos of fruit n veg in a 1 tonne car 10km.

rosscoact said :

Absolutely, I can’t get to the shop and only sometimes get to your stall at the farmers market.

Sign me up for $50 per week

Sign me up also… any order over $50 if free delivery yes????

emd said :

Snarky, Choku Bai Jo is also Gleann na Meala

Thanks emd, I didn’t know that. Turns out they’ve been supplying our Bok Choy and salad greens for quite a while already!

I would love this and have been looking for an option to have the delivery for work and for personal (at home).

I would pay approx $20 – $30 a week or even a fortnight, but would also like the option of sizes… ie if we had family over we could get a bigger box or something along those lines.

I am one of those people that can never pick the right fruit/veg and end up buying a pile of gross food and throwing it in the bin 🙁

Good luck, and I hope we get to see some more info in the near future 🙂

I used to get deliveries from Organic Express and loved it. Now, I carpool with neighbours to go to Southside Farmers Markets, your stall always has good salad greens (Snarky, Choku Bai Jo is also Gleann na Meala). But I would get deliveries again for those weeks when I’m working on market day.

Organic Express used to have white styrofoam boxes and would put a frozen water bottle in the box to keep contents cool if they were delivering when we weren’t home. We paid a deposit for the box with our first delivery, and just had to remember to put the box out for collection with subsequent deliveries. I would spend $50 to $80 per delivery, and would prefer a mixed box of whatever is good with the ability to add extras (like bananas for my little monkeys). I wouldn’t sign up for an every-week thing though, it would be more of a once-a-month when I can’t make it to the markets.

We’ve tried buying F&V as part of regular shopping trips, as part of a co-op we helped set up in Sydney, and at the southside markets. For us the markets work best, because we can pick and choose from what’s on offer.

We used the vegie co-op for about 4 years in Sydney, primarily to save money (bulk buying for 8 families from Flemington markets cut out weekly bill down to less than half, and we got better produce for the effort), but it’s undeniable that buying mixed boxes means there’s always something in there that you personally would have preferred either more or less of.

For us, teh southside markets are the best alternative. It rarely takes more than an hour, including travel time, we can pick and choose, and buy something different if we see it. So, if you’d like to sell more southside to people like us, get a stand at the market.

It’d be a lot more efficient for you too I’d think.

🙂

Absolutely, I can’t get to the shop and only sometimes get to your stall at the farmers market.

Sign me up for $50 per week

You may struggle on the Southside, as people really seem to love the experience of shopping for very fresh fruit and veg at the CIT markets. Many southsiders are fairly loyal to their local F&V too (Chisholm fruit and veg does a roaring trade). Worth a try though.

I’d happily spend 20-30 per week for a once a week delivery (a mixed bag of seasonal vegies), provided it was arranged for a time when it wouldn’t be sitting on my front porch for too long.

yes. now we have a mini-astro, timing anything like trips anywhere seems to be blown out the water and this could be a fabulous service. we’d mebbe spend forty or fifty dollars in our order, which we often do/did on our sat am jaunts to nth lyneham… would have a regular-ish list, with some adjustments week to week.

btw, i used to be able to get black sapote in the old greengrocer in civic markets before it relocated; any chance of sourcing this exquisite fruit and mebbe extending to some exotics not otherwise obtainable in sunny canberra?

I seem to remember my (interstate) uni doing this same thing. It was very popular, partly because it was cheep (subsidised by the union) but I think mostly because of the convenience.

I’d be interested in seeing what you come up with. My preference would be to have a few options of assortments with varying price tags, rather than choosing exactly what goes in there. But that could just be me. I think it’s the same theory as getting a banquet when you’re out to dinner with friends, you try things you wouldn’t normally try, and maybe get hooked on something you’ve never heard of.

Delivery to my workplace would be good, but not a sticking point, I think I’d get it regardless.

Personally, I would be after something in the order of $20 – $30 a week (a couple who tend to eat out a lot), even if it’s only once a week. I can see how families would want more, which brings me back to my previous point, have a few options with varying price tags.

Good luck, I’ll be keeping my eye out for it.

Does anyone know of any other places that do this sort of thing? I don’t care about organic.

I’d personally be more interested in your staying open longer on Saturdays, maybe till 4pm?

And doing something about that horribly-designed website.

You might like to approach businesses.

Where I work in Sydney the company gets (many) boxes of assorted fresh fruit delivered and spread all over the building, every week. Good for employee health. Seems to be pretty good quality stuff, too, and none of it is wasted

I’d be interested. I used to get a delivery with another organic business, but they went out of business.

I prefer to pay a set price like 50.00 and just get a small mixed box of fruit and veg so I can just have direct debit set up and don’t have to order stuff every week, and make payments. but I know other people like to choose specific things.

Anyway – I’m very interested.

Hell yeah. Anything to save me my Saturday trip.