I’ve often come across those who mention that a seasonal box doesn’t work for them because they don’t use all the items and therefore it’s wasted. Fair enough, completely understand that, I’ve definitely composted my share of shrivelled up zucchini’s in my time!!

But think about this…..

Since these boxes you are buying are largely from local small scale farms, their practises are very minimal in waste, as they have no surplus of profits to be throwing away in the bin. They do everything they can to sell as much as their produce as possible. This includes practising slow food production, giving them time to let that tomato ripen a bit longer on the vine, or that corn to develop a few more kernels, and we as consumers here are consuming veggies that might have marks here or there, which would have otherwise been discarded by the big wigs. Industrial farming doesn’t have time to waste on those few strangling carrots, they quickly get picked with the rest, and discarded as unsellable. You can just imagine how much produce waste there is in large scale farming practices. And if they don’t have time for that, they definitely don’t have time for composting! Woolies then tricks those who may be thinking about the waste, and bags up a few and call them the Odd Bunch, and make it seems there’s no waste, when in fact that is the biggest thought manipulation marketing I’ve ever seen. There is more waste then those few normal looking carrots that have somehow been declared as ODD.

So even though you feel like you’ve wasted those few wilted ribs of silverbeet, you’ve actually saved tons of wasted produce by purchasing your produce from our beautiful farmers right here in the Shoalhaven.

Well done you!