BICYCLE NETWORK RESCUES 8000 BANANAS!

BICYCLE NETWORK RESCUES 8000 BANANAS!

by | Sep 27, 2023 | News From The Farm

Bicycle Network Helps Us Rescue 6000 Bananas!

By Director – Josh Ball ·  · 5 min read

Farmers Pick is teaming up with the iconic Melbourne “Around The Bay” event to save 6000 single Bananas from Supermarket Rejection.

In Melbourne, Alison McCormack, CEO of Bicycle Network is supporting Farmers Pick to supply 8000 free bananas to their riders taking part of the iconic Melbourne bike event, United Energy Around The Bay on Sunday October 8th.

“We have been running this event for more than 30 years and we absolutely love working with Farmers Pick,” says Ms McCormack. 

“Their passion for sustainability and promoting healthy eating really aligns with our bike members so it was a no-brainer to support their banana farmers during their time of need. 

“We are sure the kids and families on our rides around Albert Park Lake will demolish their share of bananas and riders on the 100km, 135km, Classic and 300km distances will need a bit of extra sustenance too. It’s an absolute WIN WIN!”

Find out more about Bicycle Network & Around the Bay – Sunday 8th October

https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/rides-and-events/around-the-bay/

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HASSELBACK PUMPKIN

HASSELBACK PUMPKIN

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HASSELBACK PUMPKINBy Director - Josh Ball · Last updated Friday, 24th May 2024 · 3 min readCheck out all of our posts!<< Back to blog

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WHY A LETTUCE NOW COSTS MORE THAN YOUR LATTE

WHY A LETTUCE NOW COSTS MORE THAN YOUR LATTE

by | Jun 20, 2022 | Info, News From The Farm

WHY A LETTUCE NOW COSTS MORE THAN YOUR LATTE

Grow, harvest, transport – these are the three main steps in the journey that your food takes from seed to plate. Farmers put endless time and care into growing beautiful produce for us all to enjoy. However, months of hard work can be wiped away in minutes when Mother Nature decides to remind us who’s boss. The catastrophic floods which hit NSW and Queensland have had a major effect on the supply of fruit and vegetables. Anthony Joseph, a fruit and vegetable wholesaler and exporter, told ABC News that wet weather in south-east Queensland meant lettuce growers lost one crop and struggled to plant the next one as freezing temperatures set in.

In an average year, more than half of the workforce for fruit and vegetable harvesting is made up of backpackers from overseas. COVID-19 stopped this workforce in its tracks and farmers were left with no option but to dig their produce back into the ground as they had no workers to perform the harvest. Currently it’s nearly impossible to get your hands on a lettuce but back in January, Mornington Peninsula farmer Paul Gazzola explained to The Age that he was having to plough 30% of his weekly lettuce supply into the ground as he had no pickers.

Fuel prices have risen sharply so it costs more to get that pretty produce from the farm to your local store. Every disruption to the supply chain, whether it’s a natural disaster, a worker shortage or fuel price increases result in scarcity of particular products, large price increases for the consumer or both. Despite the many challenges facing both farmers and consumers, large supermarkets are still turning away produce because it is imperfect.

The reality is, if the supermarket refuses to buy the produce, much of it is destined to end up in landfill or left to rot on the vine. As Victorian Farmers Federation president Emma Germano said, “There’s nothing worse for a farmer who grows something [than] for it to be wasted in the paddock.” The climate is in crisis, many families struggle to put food on the table and yet much of our Australian produce will never be eaten.

It makes for grim reading (and grim writing) but there are better solutions. If you’re reading this article then you’re already playing your part in the solution. The fruit and vegetable industry is currently riding out a perfect storm but luckily at Farmer’s Pick, we view dimples, wrinkles and blemishes as perfectly imperfect.  

Lettuce wrap up on a positive note… As a Farmer’s Pick customer, never forget that you’re helping save the planet, one bendy carrot at a time. 

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AVOCADO CRISIS UPDATE

AVOCADO CRISIS UPDATE

by | May 3, 2022 | News From The Farm

AVOCADO CRISIS UPDATE

One of the most unexpected benefits of creating our company, was realised in several situations similar to the Avocado excess Australian farmers experienced last season.

We are here first and formost to not only help assist Aussie farmers, but to change the food system and how bottlenecks in produce distribution can occur.

It was so amazing to know that we could actively go over and above what we normally would purchase so that we could ease the pressure on these farmers.

Thanks to you, we helped our Aussie avo farmers by purchasing over 5 tonnes of “imperfect” avocados that would have gone to waste because of the unusual amount of excess last season.

Our produce boxes had x3 the normal amount of avos, so it seriously great to know that you made a real difference in saving these avos & directly assisting our farmers.

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