Behind the Misfits
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Meet Carolyn & Malcom!
This awesome couple are responsible for those beautiful feijoas in your boxes the last couple weeks. Nestled in the outskirts of Rotorua, their orchard has 10 blocks of trees, supplying fruit all season. When selling their fruit, they usually grade...
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Meet Tyler!
Meet Tyler! We reckon he's the coolest brussels sprout farmer in NZ The sprouts in your box this season are coming from his farm in beautiful snow-covered Ohakune. Having grown up watching his grandfather grow these lil cabbages on the exact...
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Simply the Zest!
Have you noticed lemons are super expensive in big retail stores at the moment? (they are currently sitting at $16/kg!) and at the same time there are 1000's of kilos going to waste each week for not looking 'perfect' enough...
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HOW much for a broccoli?!
Have you noticed there's a shortage of broccoli in the supermarkets this week? Around eleventy-thousand litres of rain has fallen in the last 2 weeks (that's the official measurement of course!) This makes growing, planting & harvesting veggies very difficult...
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Mushroom Farm Visits!
Last week we went to visit a Quality mushrooms, an organic mushroom farm just outside Hamilton. We literally had no clue about how a commerical mushroom farm would look so were really excited to see what it was all about!...
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What is Misfit Produce?
This is Tarun. He is awesome. He helps mange his family orchards, where they usually grow apples. Luckily for us Misfits this year they have branched (see what we did there?) into stone fruit! Plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots... you name...