Sydney Food Connect has provided data about this months boxes:

“Households/week: 247
City Cousins: 32
Price to farmers: 40c/$
Organic or chemical free: 100%
Food miles/week: 173km

Our market comparison with five other organic and non-organic produce box services this month showed we are on average 14% cheaper!”

Julian Lee, co-founder of Sydney Food Connect, is one of five environmentalists named in today’s the(sydney)magazine’s list of Sydney’s top 100 most influential people.

And Stefan Stavropolous, who runs Chippendale’s Cafe Guilia, is one of those, too.

May the local food be with us and our money with the farmers.

Michael