Box Divvy Liberty Grove - Charlton

Box Divvy Liberty Grove - Charlton 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: Liberty Grove - Charlton

Pick up Wednesday. Home delivery offered but please ask first. 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/225

Box Divvy is Community owned and run. Thi

s is a fruit veg and grocery cooperative. We 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.


4 DAY ORDER CYCLE – FOR Wednesday pick up

Friday 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 Friday 9pm. Your “WISH LIST VOTE” and any changes you wish to make to your household size must also be done by Friday 9pm. Saturday - Starting Order Published
Login take up to 3 things out and JOIN SPLITS. Monday 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. Wednesday - 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.

08/12/2025

Australian garlic - add it in your order now.

Australian Garlic Lovers. This One’s for You!
Why pay more?
Box Divvy: $16.29/kg
Coles: $36/kg

Fresh, fragrant Aussie garlic at a proper Aussie price. Your pasta, roasts, and stir-fries will thank you. Grab your Aussie garlic from Box Divvy and taste the difference.
Here’s a quick, ridiculously good recipe to put it to work:
5-Minute Aussie Garlic Butter
Ingredients:
• 4 cloves Australian garlic, crushed
• 100g soft butter
• 1 tbsp parsley (optional)
• Pinch of salt
• Squeeze of lemon
Method:
1. Mix everything in a bowl.
2. Spread on sourdough, melt over steak, toss through veggies.

29/11/2025

Look at the amazing prices on marketplace this week!!

13/10/2025

Are you still paying too much for fruit and veggies that only lasts a couple of days? Try Box Divvy instead.

We get better prices, the grower gets a better deal and the produce is much fresher.

Coles and Woolworths are only interested in lining their own pockets, Box Divvy is about people, product and our food supply, above profit.

It's a win/win - you get better food for your family for less and the growers get sustainable prices to allow them to continue supplying our food.

Prices as at 7th Oct 2025.

13/10/2025

Papaya

The papaya season has kicked off: you get the best growing conditions and flavour in early spring – right now! And did you know that red papaya contains more vitamin C than oranges per serve? And the price, you may ask? Three bucks each. Sprinkling them with some lime juice will really bring out the flavour. Limes are a little over $1 each right now.

13/10/2025

Dutch carrots

What else is good in spring? Lots, but the one stand-out this week – from one of Manuel Xerri’s neighbours: Dutch carrots. Legend has it that Dutch growers bred the orange carrot – which up to then had been purple – out of loyalty to William of Orange. Being the cunning traders they are, they’re now dedicating the orange carrot to Donald Trump. History is being rewritten in front of our own eyes. So here we have ‘m: Trumped-up Carrots, $2 a bunch.

13/10/2025
13/10/2025

Skimpflation? Not on our watch.

You’ve probably noticed supermarket favourites aren’t quite the same lately, that is same price, smaller serve, and somehow less flavour. That’s skimpflation.

This is when brands quietly cut corners but keep the price the same. One minute it’s “packed with oats and chickpeas,” next minute it’s mostly filler and marketing fluff.

“Carman’s Oat Bars have 10% fewer oats, Chris’ Hommus has 12% fewer chickpeas, and we’re left wondering where the good stuff went,” says Joanna Wells known as the ‘Value Guru’.

So, why’s it happening? Simple. Supermarkets squeeze suppliers to keep prices “stable” on shelves, even when costs rise. Suppliers can’t say no (hello, lost shelf space), so they tweak recipes to survive. It’s not a recipe change but we call it a forced negotiation with a barcode.

And the supermarkets? Oh, they’re at it too with Home Brands, quietly trimming quality while bragging “no price rise.” You still pay $4, but that yoghurt tub’s shrunk, and it’s now 20% more with marketing hype.

At Box Divvy, we don’t play that game. No fake fillers, no sneaky shrinkage just real food from real people. You can see who grows it or manufacturers, what it costs, and where your money goes. Transparency’s kind of our thing because if we ever cut corners, it’d be to fit in more chickpeas.

13/10/2025

Christmas is the season to say ‘Thank You’. With a gift.

We’re just past the last long weekend before the end of the year, so it makes perfect sense to start thinking about …whaaaattt? Christmas? Already??

Yup, it’s time – so we just wanted to give you a heads-up about what’s coming. Because this year, we’re going ALL OUT on Christmas gifts.

For starters, we’ll have a range of boxes and baskets to put gifts into. We’ll also have shredded paper to lay your gift on to, plus ribbons and wrapping paper.

Then onto the gifts: from gourmet foods to beauty products.

And lastly: the food that will adorn your Christmas lunch table: from Christmas Ham and Turkey to succulent prawns and seafood.

More details in next week’s newsletter.

13/10/2025

Market Update

Fruit

We’re in the in-between-seasons period, when apples and pears are starting to become scarce (and pricey), but typical summer fruit – stone fruit, mangoes – is still not abundant. Luckily, berries are carrying us over this gap – especially blueberries - but the jumbo punnets of strawberries are finished 😱. Strawberry supply is in a state of flux right now: most Queensland fruit has finished up, some supply is coming out of West Australia (but the quality is hit and miss, and we’re a little suss about the long transport lines) – and Victoria is only a week or 2 away from starting its season. There are a lot of strawberry farms on Melbourne’s outskirts – around Monbulk, in the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong ranges and around Bacchus Marsh.

Meanwhile, Kensington Pride mangoes are holding their price – but R2E2s are getting cheaper. They’re on Marketplace now for $35 a tray – which works out to around $2 a mango. There was a time when R2's were not the best-eating mango around, but they have made big strides in flavour. And unlike KPs, they are not stringy.

Rockmelons and honeydew melons are good value, but don’t get us started on seedless watermelons: they are now approaching $3 a kilo, and this won’t improve for at least a few weeks.

Vegetables

Most vegetables are excellent value again this week – with the notable exceptions of corn and beans. This time of year, both come from the same farm in Lockyer Valley, and over the past 2 weeks they’ve had machinery breaking down. So hopefully things will improve once they’ve repaired them.

All brassicas – from broccoli to cabbages and kale – are still cheap; avocadoes are tightening up a little, but still way cheaper than the $2 you’d pay in the supermarkets. Sugarsnap is out but snowpeas are good. All root vegetables are in good supply, with more beetroot coming from Pellicone Farms in Virginia, SA. Cucumbers are cheap, especially baby Q’s at $1.79 a serve (around 200g).

Tomatoes remain good value, especially truss tomatoes and Roma. Pumpkins and zucchini are in good supply, but summer squash is taking a break.

Spuds remain pricey for another few weeks until SA gets going.

Raymond Camilleri is picking green Globe Artichokes in Freemans Reach this week: they’re under $2 each, but you’ll see them in the shops typically for $3-4. Recipes and how-to following below.

29/09/2025

Papaya or Berry?

No need to choose. Why? Because papaya belongs to the berry family. And right now, they’re in season and great value.

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