Behind the Misfits

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  • Reduce, Reuse, and THEN recycle

    Reduce, Reuse, and THEN recycle

    Look what we have here!  We stopped printing white boxes about 6 months ago... and look what has turned up once again at our door! We all know the rules reduce, reuse, AND THEN recycle! Recycling is just a cop...

  • Mushroom Farm Visits!

    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!...

  • Atiamuri School Fundraiser

    Atiamuri School Fundraiser

    The kids from Atiamuri School are doing a fundraiser to generate funds for their Summer camp A local farmer donated a corner of their sweetcorn paddock for the school to sell, but the teachers have since thought that it may...

  • Spray-Free Avocado Overload!

    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...

  • Meet Carolyn & Malcom!

    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...

  • Meet Tyler!

    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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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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