Food Connect - From the Farm to the City

From February 2010 FoodConnect will be starting to deliver pre-ordered boxes of fruit and vegetables from local growers to Sydney households.

Food Connect was established in Brisbane in 2004 by Robert Pekin, a dairy farmer and developer of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) projects. Pekin had a vision for a community shared agriculture enterprise that could develop a local and regional food system for South East Queensland. Food comes from farmers living within a five hour radius of Brisbane who are 'encouraged' to farm using the most sustainable methods possible.

Now the successful model is in the process of being replicated in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Bellingen, Coffs Coast and Wollongong.

The Sydney franchise is looking for buyers and 'City Cousins' - who if I understand correctly are volunteers who act as area co-ordinators and distributors. (The web-site says there is a 'rewards system' for City Cousins but doesn't say what it is - they should get a free box of veggies for all that hard work if you ask me.....)