09/08/2022
Hi I’m Brendan a current member and taking over the Hub from Amy. A big thankyou to Amy for running the Hub this past year.
I’m looking forward to building a food community keen to share recipes, nutrition tips, know more about our local and Australian farmers.
I’m passionate about making healthy food choices, reducing our packaging and connecting people within our community. Food is a great way to do this. We might not be able to sit at each others dinner tables at the moment but we can fire each other with enthusiasm for cooking and sharing our storage tips.
We welcome new members to this Wednesday Hub. If you’ve questions please feel free to ask me.
To join my Wednesday Hub in Swansea/Caves Beach, please use the link below:
https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/114
More about How it Works.
With Box Divvy we share boxes using a smart App and offered to you when you join and this helps us, as a group, to share boxes of fruit, veg, bread, eggs, groceries between us.
Meat, Seafood, Chicken and Smallgoods offered every 4 weeks with free home delivery on a Saturday.
How does this work?
Easy.
You get an order every week unless you suspend BEFORE Order Creation (9pm Saturday). We ask you order at least fortnightly.
You get a Start Order on Saturday morning with fruit & Veg only. How much you get depends on the household size. Every order ends up different because you can take up to 3 things out.
You have a say of what goes into the Start Order by voting in the WishList.
When I publish the Start Order you can take 3 things out.
There is then an OPT-IN section known as SPLITS (let’s Split a box). This is why no one order is the same.
For security we keep the App on the website and off the Apple Store - it connects us directly with growers and food wholesalers and the profits are channelled back into reducing the prices for members. So you save up to 40% on produce that hasn't been stored and a heap of groceries on offer.
It's a community run and owned coop with the aim to change how the food system currently is working.
Box Divvy is -
*Good for your wallet *Good for your Health *Good for the Planet
Around 40-60% from local growers seasonally (mostly greens) and Conventional/Sprayfree. See more on this at https://www.boxdivvy.com/how
We will go Australia wide as the season changes. We will not say interstate are Sprayfree as we have not visited their farms, even if they tell us that.
**Good for your wallet**
Safer than a supermarket and you'll save up to 40% on produce and groceries compared to online supermarkets. Why so inexpensive? We believe most of the profit should go back to paying our farmers fairly and to benefit our members. You get to know our growers - how cool is that!
So our Box Divvy community, is about supporting local growers, providing fresh, accessible and inexpensive fresh food to everyone – no matter where you live or your income. Grocery items some will be overseas as not commercially grown in Australia.
There are now over 6,500 families involved in Box Divvy's across Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains and South Coast.
**Good for your Health** This is all available to our community through an initiative with Western Sydney Diabetes Alliance Partners Western Sydney Diabetes Building Fresh Food Communities.
Box Divvy will only offer high nutritional products rather than like supermarkets where you have access to impulse purchasing of high energy but low in nutrition options.
It's a fun and educational way to connect with your neighbours, share recipes that fit in with your lifestyle, a place to share your cooking successes (and not so as we can learn from those too), learn how to store fresh produce, and how to use up what's left in the fridge before the net delivery.
I run the Hub and am known as your Hubster: I communicate with you stories and recipes; encourage you to share your food stories, and have fun being involved in this innovative and easy way to shop.
When you register to join my Hub you will receive a Welcome email with a User Guide. I'll also be in touch with you by phone to say ‘Hi’.
Want to know more?
Here's more about how it works and how I run the Hub.
How it Works: Buy. Share. Save.
1. Everyone gets a Starting Order some 3-4 staples, amount is based on your household size, and you can take 3 items out. Yes, you can have a say each week of what goes into this. Make a 'Wish List Vote'.
2. Opt In. Then we share boxes online known as SPLITS. You choose 1 or 2 boxes to share and look at what other members have put up to share. All done on our phone, ipad or computer using the smart Box Divvy App.
The App shares it all out to those who have joined that Split. As a group we just have to get the minimum required for an item then everything over that we get. Example, we might need to get 6 cabbage then the 7th, 8th we get.
CUTOFF is at 9pm MONDAY. This is your final order including the Splits you opted-in for which have made it over the first box as a group.
Your card is then charged overnight. Please make sure you have enough funds on your card.
Payment security: We have a daily updated SSL certificate on our website keeping any information safe plus all transactions are through Eway payment gateway.
DECLINING CARDS
This happens sometimes due to another transaction taking out your funds or needing to update your Credit Card. You do get a reminder email from us a week before your card is due to be updated.
If your card declines, you will receive an auto email saying that we will attempt to recharge the card again at midday the next day. This is the day before delivery. If this attempt declines then it will be manually processed at 5pm and you will be charged a $5 admin fee as we need to pay someone to process these. You must pay for your order the day prior to delivery.
Ordering Cycle
Ordering is over a four day cycle.
It is expected you will order weekly and at least fortnightly. You can suspend orders before Order Creation but if going away please let me know please.
**Good for the Planet**
No unnecessary packaging. I encourage you to provide me with your own stand up, name labelled, insulated shopping bags, tubs, then for the small things like beans, mushrooms etc cloth bags/net bags/ or containers name labelled, for example large rectangle yoghurt tubs or ice cream containers. Please wash them thoroughly before returning each week. Groceries - some already packed in soft plastic which we can recycle in RED bins at the shops.
Let’s Unsupermarket!
See how we work with growers here https://www.boxdivvy.com/how
Check out the website too www.boxdivvy.com
Quality Control and communication. Great flavoursome produce but be aware we don’t tell our growers what they must pack. So produce will come in different sizes and for example, it may on occasion have growing marks on it – the way nature intended.
We do not create food waste and if the produce is tasty and grown the way nature intended then we will take ‘curly’ cucumbers.
But, if you get a yucky something let me know within 24 hours of pick up with a photo please. Need the photo to show the growers. To make up we’ll either put in extras the following week or if I can, put in a credit request.
You need to let me know within 24 hours of pickup or delivery. After that time frame I can’t be held responsible for how the produce has been stored.
Love your feedback and know how happy you are with my Hub and the food. Love you to put a review on this page.
If you have an issue please contact me directly so that I can see how I can resolve it. Constructive feedback is most helpful because if you don’t let me know I can’t aim to resolve it .
Exciting stuff. So join our Hub and Unsupermarket.
Any questions you find unanswered on the website feel free to message me.
Hub name: Swansea - Macquarie 
