Behind the Misfits

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...

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...

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!...

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...

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...

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...