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These New Icons Will Help Inform Your Minifarms Shop

Make informed choices with the help of four new in-app icons. Designed to help you spot which products align with your dietary requirements.

Add Milk To Your Next Minifarms Order

Fill the gap in your weekly shop with the highly anticipated arrival of a Minifarms dairy supplier – The Little Big Dairy Co.

Easter Reflections

It’s days like these that allow your mind and body to enter into a flow state which brings reflection on what really matters, what’s working

Let's Talk About Fresh

I have been so lucky to be part of a fruit and vegetable co-op for so long. Essentially, the farmers market is brought right to my home....

The Demise of My Corporate Career

The beginning My story starts a long time ago. It actually seems like a lifetime ago now or something that existed in a parallel...

H U S T L E. H U S T L E.

How many of you have a side hustle? What do you do? I feel like all of my jobs are side hustles. Why? I love them all. And I am so...

How being part of a co-op has changed my thinking

There’s a quote that goes something like: “Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old...

How Consumer Perception Shifts When Joining a Co-op

Joining a Co-op has many life affirming perceptual changes. Loving, living and accepting seasonal produce as it should be adds joy

Can We Keep The Co-op Alive??

As many of you know, I absolutely adore the food co-ops that I run. In my thought piece today, I explore why the concept of the beloved...

The Magic of Cooking – What I Love About Creating a Meal

Food has always been an important part of my family’s rituals. In our first home, I remember the funny-coloured green kitchen with the...

A New Year’s Resolution: Reinstating the Family Meal

The beginning of the year is synonomous with new beginnings, new habits and new resolutions. As I proclaimed in my previous blog post,...

My New Year's Reflections

I’m sure we can all come to a unanimous decision that 2020 was a year of challenges and unexpected change- which is never easy to adapt...

My Different Christmases and the Importance of Family Traditions

Christmas is fast approaching, and I can smell it in the air. The sounds of parties echo around the neighbourhood. Shops are bursting at...

COVID Christmas Thoughts

I love Christmas. I love the gift-giving. I love the gift-receiving. Since having two kids of my own, this love has been further...

Creating Joyful and Meaningful Traditions Over the Christmas Season

Christmas is a wonderful, but very busy time of year. There is so much to do. In this rush, we often lose sight of the true meaning of...

Embracing Seasonal Living – Eating and Flowing with the Seasons

What I know: I grew up in a pretty traditional Chinese family. I’m not sure that I fully understood that as a child. Now as an adult, I...

Copy of Why it is So Important to Keep Local Communities Alive

Last week I shared with you the history of the food co-op. At the centre of this concept is the idea of a “community” working together....

We are Social Animals- Nurturing That Community Spirit

Humans are social creatures. We need to belong to a community. We rely on cooperation to survive and thrive. We are most comfortable...

Rekindling the Almost-Forgotten Joy of Food

Let me begin this blog entry with a weekend musing. This weekend, we spent Saturday night with a bunch of good friends. We enjoyed...

The Missing Piece of our Fruit and Veggie Buying Experience

When doing your weekly shop, do any of these sound familiar? You’re in a rush. You’re working off a list and ticking items off as you go....