Food Connect’s record for July
Food Connect, the fruit and veggies box service for which I’m a volunteer City Cousin (ie folks can collect their boxes from my house) has just sent their monthly report for environmental and social impacts and in summary:
- over the month of July the social and environmental impact has been:
- Households/week: 180
- City Cousins: 19
- Price to farmers: 40c/$
- Organic or chemical free: 100%
- Food miles: 212 km
For more information: sydney.foodconnect.com…
To see if there’s a City Cousin near where you live or work: sydney.foodconnect.com…
I get a box every two weeks at a cost of $35 a box. So, using their figures, that’s $14 of my box money going to the farmers and $21 to Food Connect (admin, handling, boxes, delivery). And if I want to put off getting a box for another week or manage my account in some other way I can do all that on the web as the service allows customers to directly manage the frequency and choice of box. So it’s quite flexible.
Go the farmers,
M