Behind the Misfits
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Spray-Free Avocado Overload!
We have a new farmer on board! Rod and his wife bought an orchard in Te Puke a couple of years ago and are now fed up. Continual price negotiations by supermarkets plus a dwindling export market have driven prices so...
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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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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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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...
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Morning Glory, Anyone?!
At Misfit Garden we want to make eating and cooking veggies exciting again! We want people to have the chance to try new veggies that can't be found at the supermarket. In last week's box, we were lucky enough to...