Box Divvy Lemon Tree Passage - Elaine

Box Divvy Lemon Tree Passage - Elaine Box Divvy, Social Enterprise, food box sharing connecting growers & food wholesalers with the Food Hubs up to 40% cheaper than online supermarkets. WANT MORE?

Hub name: Lemon Tree Passage - Elaine

Pick up Tuesday. Due to COVID-19 Our Local Food Hubs Have in place Hygiene, Packing and Social Distancing protocol. So a Wave and smile from a distance on pick up. Community working together. To register for the Hub use this link
https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/326

Box Divvy is Community owned and run. This is a fruit veg and grocery cooperative. W

e purchase as a group up to 40% cheaper than supermarkets. It’s a Smart coop and you get more of what you want than a normal coop. Box Divvy is a food box sharing system connecting growers & food producers directly with the Food. It is community owned and run designed to cut your food bill. You join online - there is no registration fee. https://www.boxdivvy.com/ You use an App on your phone or computer or a pad to order. Working with Western Sydney Diabetes Alliance - our aim is to provide accessible, inexpensive good quality fresh food. How it works:
Start Order is roughly $25-$30 and you can take up to 3 things out. You get to Vote for Start Order contents each week. How much you get is based on household size but you'll always get more than what you paid for in the Start Order. THEN
SPLITS (Let's SPLIT share a box). More fruit & veg, groceries, bread, eggs, meat etc. Put up 1 or 2 boxes and look at what others want to share and join them. You'll get great value, supporting farming families whom you'll get to know.

4 DAY ORDER CYCLE – FOR Tuesday pick up

Thursday 9pm – Order creation
It’s an OPT OUT SYSTEM so if you don’t want an order for the coming week, you must suspend prior to Thursday 9pm. Your “WISH LIST VOTE” and any changes you wish to make to your household size must also be done by Thursday 9pm. Friday - Starting Order Published
Login take up to 3 things out and JOIN SPLITS. Sunday 9pm - CUTOFF
Orders closed. Cards charged. There are 2 automatic processing’s, if those both decline - a $5 recharge fee is applied as it pays for someone to manually reprocess. You must pay BEFORE pick-up. Tuesday - PICK UP. You must pick up day of delivery at the pick-up time or arrange with Hubster. PAYMENTS
You must pay for your order once committed to an order cycle. Once in an Order Cycle we cannot withdraw an order. It is your responsibility to suspend the correct weeks. ORDERING SYSTEM
Dead simple. You share boxes online using the App. SUSPENDING ORDERS
When you tick the date, wait, it will turn red to confirm suspension. You’re expected to order weekly or fortnightly. STARTING ORDER
There’s a Starting Order based on your weekly ‘wish list’ VOTE and you can take out up to 3 things. Every week BEFORE Order Creation do a Wish List Vote to help Hubster (person who organisers Hub) to set up Starting Order. SHARE BOXES known as SPLITS
If you wish for more, you join Splits and share boxes. You can suggest a box to share or to your Hubster. Such as saying to your group: “Who’d like to share a box of apples?”

At order cut-off you pay automatically online (Visa or Mastercard & Secure Eway Payment gateway) then boxes from growers & food wholesalers come to the Hubster’s house for packing. You pick up from their place or they may offer home delivery. FRUIT, VEG, BREAD, EGGS – Order, pay, receive this week
GROCERIES – Order, pay, receive next week due to fresh roasting of coffee and made to order. BREAD baker direct – Minimum HUB order total is $30
GROCERIES wholesaler direct – Minimum HUB order is $75. MEAT AND SEAFOOD (NEW) – Order every 4 weeks. READ THE AMOUNTS YOU ARE PURCHASING
Please check carefully if the items are single, handfuls, 500gm, 1 kg etc. Don't assume it's by one item. EXAMPLE: Cherries sold by the box, make sure you’re not putting in 5 thinking it's handfuls when it's boxes. Read the descriptions please. EXTRAS
There are ALWAYS extras as the box belongs to members so your Hubster will divvy extras when available. There is also usually a SWAP box - if you forget to customise your Starting Order, you can throw in some apples and take out some carrots that someone else did not want. You will get great value. COMMUNITY BOX
Many Hubster’s ask members if this SWAP BOX can become a COMMUNITY KINDNESS BOX given to a family in need. This is part of the Social Enterprise experience by being part of the Hub. NOT WANT AN ORDER? There are no contracts, you can suspend orders when you don’t want them. WANT EXACTLY 1 tomato 2 oranges? Then Box Divvy is not for you. This is a coop and things are in handfuls NOT exact items. You need to be flexible but you'll always get good value. We are a group of community minded people wanting to change the food system. Reduce packaging and pay our farmers fairly. By reducing our carbon footprint by 90% this means we buy in bulk as a group and then share it. We need to be a bit flexible. You will know roughly what you will get but you can’t get exact. We have a Packing Guide but the numbers will change as produce is smaller or larger. Mostly you will get extras overall. HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I SPEND? EASY. You will pay the STARTING ORDER PLUS if you join in SPLITS or ADD Groceries. At the bottom of MY ORDER you will see the MAX you will pay if all your SPLITS get over the line, any groceries you’ve ordered and the Starting Order. You can reduce the SPLITS or Groceries you joined BEFORE CUTOFF. PACKAGING
Much of the produce comes loose so please provide your Hubster with a NAME LABELLED BAG: ALSO - calico/wash nets to put handfuls in (do not expect your Hubster to provide paper bags please): Bring in your old icecream containers, for example, for the Hub to put soft stuff in. If you get an item in plastic, recycle it in your soft plastic bin. We don't interrupt the packing from the farmer. Farmers are trying to work out how to transport produce and it can’t always be plastic free - for the moment. The Sugar Cane bags are not strong, don't last and definitely not airtight. Cardboard and paper fall apart. New technology is being worked on. NOT FOR ME
If after you’ve tried it and Box Divvy is not working the way you want, then you can cancel membership. So? Join our group to make a difference. You have the power to do so. Cut your food bill significantly – Wow! The goal: to cut your food bill, without compromising on the quality, freshness and variety of food. With minimal effort, minimal packaging and food miles, and still paying farmers and suppliers a fair price for their produce.

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07/01/2026

Orders will be operational by Friday. We have limited spaces available in our community hub. Join us at LTP BD to receive discounts on your weekly groceries, featuring over 800 pantry items and a wide selection of chilled orders and items.

25/12/2025
03/12/2025

Good morning members! Re-posting our ✨ Christmas ✨ schedule here and it’s pinned in our hub chat. 3 weeks today 😅! 🌲 ⭐️

To help you plan, this means our last order before Christmas will open on Thu 18/12 & close Sun 21/12.

14/11/2025

Across neighbourhoods and country towns, a quiet kind of kindness is taking root - neighbours meeting neighbours, sharing food, and lending a hand through Box Divvy, a community-powered grocery network that connects people directly with each other.

10/10/2025

Hunter Valley Eggs price down

Free-range egg supply continues to improve, and prices are easing – so Hunter Valley has reduced their wholesale price by 50c a carton. Which we duly pass on to our members.

A dozen free range eggs from the farm with one of the lowest stocking densities in the industry – 950 hens per HA – will now cost you $7.87 per carton.

There’s only one caveat: we don’t know if this is the new normal, or just temporary – but bank it all the same.

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26/09/2025

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26/09/2025

⚡️Market Update⚡️

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⭐️ We’re on a seasonal cusp: apples in particular are starting to get tight and pricey, but we’re still a few weeks away from our favourite summer fruit: yes, we’ve seen early apricots, peaches and nectarines – but early stone fruit can ripen unevenly, or not at all. And besides, it’s still very expensive (as in: $20 a kilo).The Royal Melbourne Show – plus the AFL Grand Final – seems to have sucked up every available mango, so they’re not getting any cheaper for a couple of weeks – but by mid-October, expect them to ease in price.

⭐️ So just as well the berry season this year keeps on giving: jumbo punnets of strawberries are still super-cheap, blueberries are great value – and this week, they’re joined by raspberries.

⭐️ The other good news: melons of every stripe have started coming out of North Queensland in good numbers, so not only is seedless watermelon below $2 a kilo, rockmelons and honeydew melon are cheap too.

⭐️ Tropical fruit is a mixed bag: bananas are up, but papaya and passionfruit are cheaper.

⭐️ Expect some changes in citrus in the coming weeks: navels will finish up, and Valencias will take over the reign; limes will get cheaper but lemons more expensive; and blood oranges, tangelos and mandarins will finish up next month (so enjoy them whilst they last).

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⭐️ By-and-large, continue to benefit from the warm weather and are mostly between good value and very cheap: avocado, cauliflowers, broccoli, broccolini, cabbages, capsicum, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, fennel, eggplant, asparagus and lettuce are all cheap – and mostly cheaper than last week. Cherry and grape tomatoes are at their lowest price in who-knows-how-long. Herbs are coming down in price, especially coriander, parsley and now mint are all around $1.50 a bunch. Basil prices are dropping, but only slowly – until they’re had a good number of weeks of warm sunshine.

⭐️ George Portelli’s small wombok will take a few weeks’ break, so in the interim we’ll have medium wombok – but still good value at around $3.40.

⭐️ Baby Q’s are back: just $2.26 a serve!

⭐️ A few products are out: Brussels Sprouts have reached the end of the season – for now (although there may be a late flush in December for those who’d want their sprouts for Christmas lunch). Fresh corn is also out: most has been shipped to Victoria for the Royal Melbourne Show. We expect them back in a week’s time.

26/09/2025

Blueberries and chemicals

You may have seen on the news the story about the use of pesticides in blueberries found in several Sydney supermarkets and grocery stores. This has understandably caused a flurry of inquiries from Hubsters and members, so here are some answers.

Box Divvy sources most blueberries from OzBerries and Mountain Blue, one of Australia’s best-known blueberry farm. It’s family-owned and run by Ridley Bell and his son. The berries are packed under several different labels, including Eureka and Mountain Blue.

Mountain Blue is HARPS-accredited: this produce scheme is the most stringent when it comes to maintaining food safety and integrity standards. Mountain Blue is also heavily focussed on sustainability, minimising the use of synthetic fertiliser, herbicides and pesticides. When they are forced to use chemicals, they observe strict ‘withholding periods’. For some chemicals, this can as long as 14 days - i.e. they are not allowed to harvest for at least 14 days after the chemical has been applied so that none or minimal amounts on residues are left on the berries. Having said that, we always recommend washing berries (or any fresh produce) before eating them.

An important reminder that, even though many local vegetables sourced by Box Divvy from the Sydney Basin from growers whom we know personally are spray-free most of the time, this does not mean that ‘Box Divvy is spray-free’. Like most things in life, the use of chemicals is never black & white. Even organic growers are allowed to use certain synthetic chemicals under certain circumstances.

17/09/2025

Cheaper and fresher food, more money for farmers. Can Box Divvy change the grocery game in Victoria?

07/09/2025

Market Update

Prices are, for the most part, reflecting benign growing conditions – but some seasonal gaps are starting to appear in both fruit and vegetables.

In fruit:
Apple supply is tightening and prices are slowly drifting up. Once mangoes and stone fruit start in earnest, they are likely to drift downwards again – but for now, most apples – and pears for that matter – will come in over $4 a kilo.
By contrast, tropical fruit is getting cheaper as the Far North is warming up: bananas, mangoes (!), passionfruit, pineapples and even limes are cheaper again compared with last week
Citrus is still cheap – in particular blood oranges which at $2 a kilo are even cheaper than Cara Cara! Lemons will tighten up over the coming months.
Melons are a bit how’r’u’goin, with watermelons from NT scarce and rockmelons and honeydew not cheap either. This will take at least another 3-4 weeks before we can expect to see improvement.
Strawberries remain this week’s stars, and we haven’t reached peak supply yet. The weather in the main growing regions around Bundaberg remains sunny and mostly dry – ideal growing conditions – so we’re likely to see some crazy low prices in a week or 2.

Most vegetables are well-priced, and many are cheaper again than last week:
Beans are under $6/kg, snowpeas and sugarsnap under $12/kg, and all brassicas are cheap and plentiful
Red Capsicums are $3/kg this week, and even cucumbers are coming down in price. Expect further drops as the mid-north coast dries up and gets warmer
Some leafy greens are starting to come down in price – silverbeet is back to $2.73 – even though some Asian greens and herbs still rely on interstate supply as local growers are recovering from the wettest day of the year
All lettuces are cheap – Iceberg under $2 a head – and rhubarb is down to $3.46. It’s a spring vege after all, and once strawberries are really cheap, they are perfect when cooked together for a rhubarb strawberry jam or compote.
Tomatoes are mostly well-priced (especially Field and baby truss tomatoes)
Two vegetables that are bucking the trend however:
Mushrooms are tightening up (except for oyster mushrooms: still at their lowest price on record)
Potatoes are facing a break until the new season gets underway in October/November. Especially washed Nadines, Red Desiree and Chats will be expensive for the next 6 weeks. For now, stick with brushed Sebago and Dutch Cream at less than half price.

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03/09/2025

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