I have recently joined the ranks of rich people eating organic!

My flatmate and I joined the Moreland Veggie Co-op and now receive a weekly box of organic fruit and veg:

Big box o’ veg

For $25 ($12.50 each), this week’s box contained:

• fancy lettuce
• 2 avocados
• 4 kiwi fruits
• 5 oranges
• 5 potatoes
• 3 zucchini
• 2 Lebanese cucumbers
• head of broccoli
• 6 baby carrots
• 6 beetroot (2 medium, 4 small)

Although we’ll still have to buy staples like onions and garlic, and other ingredients if we want to cook specific recipes, for $25 that’s an awesome amount of fresh organic produce to have just sittin’ round the house.*

Morelandia is great for cheap produce and accessories for a hippy lifestyle. Last weekend I went to a plant sale at a local community garden and bought a pumpkin plant, chard, and leek seedlings for a grand sum of $5:

Can’t wait to harvest my first pumpkin

*The last veggie box had one huge beetroot but we didn’t use it and it got a little old so yesterday I baked it into a chocolate cake. It didn’t turn out great – very crumbly, very beetrooty – and now I’m wondering what to do with it. Ice it and eat it anyway? Or turn it into something else (and what)?

See Northside Ladies for more info on the Moreland Veggie Co-op, including their contact details and how to get involved.