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  • How to Eat the Whole Damn Pumpkin: Flesh, Skin & Seeds

    How to Eat the Whole Damn Pumpkin: Flesh, Skin & Seeds

    At Misfit Garden, we’re all about giving love to the unloved and making sure nothing good goes to waste especially when it comes to pumpkins. If you’ve only been scooping out the insides and binning the rest, it’s time for a...

  • How to Revive Your Floppy Greens (and Why It’s Totally Normal)

    How to Revive Your Floppy Greens (and Why It’s Totally Normal)

    So, you’ve opened the fridge, dreaming of a crisp lettuce salad or a vibrant stir-fry, only to discover a sad, wilted bunch of silverbeet or a floppy celery stalk that looks like it’s given up. We’ve all been there. You...

  • Don’t Toss That Watermelon Rind! Here’s How to Eat It

    Don’t Toss That Watermelon Rind! Here’s How to Eat It

    Watermelon season is in full swing, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve been devouring slice after juicy slice. But every time you cut into a watermelon, you’re left with that huge pile of rind, which usually ends up in...

  • Waste Free Feijoa Recipes

    Waste Free Feijoa Recipes

    Ever feel like you're throwing away half the fruit when you eat feijoa? Here we have 4 epic recipes - all including the skins - perfect for feijoa season when you have them coming out of your ears! FEIJOA FRITTERS...

  • Colourful Cauliflower - purple, green, orange - are they natural or GMO?

    Colourful Cauliflower - purple, green, orange - are they natural or GMO?

    Many consumers may be familiar only with white cauliflower because this is the most widely available type, but DID YOU KNOW back in the day, cauliflowers were naturally colourful! The predominant white colour that we now know is actually a result of crosses over...

  • Misfit Garden Taupo New Zealand wonky vegetable subscription lemon hamilton rotorua tauranga whakatane

    Simply the Zest!

    Have you noticed lemons are super expensive in big retail stores at the moment? (they are currently sitting at $9/kg where we are) and at the same time there are 1000's of kilos going to waste each week for not...

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We are a zero waste business

We hate to see food wasted so whenever we have surplus produce it gets donated to charity food banks around Taupō.

If you're in the Taupō area and know your box gets delivered by the Misfit van, you're in luck! We will collect your old boxes and put them to use again, leave them out for us in a dry spot on delivery day.

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