Lower Hunter Box Divvy

08/03/2026

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day and the incredible women who make up our Box Divvy community.

Our Hubsters, mostly women but we have wonderful men taking up the call for change too, are more than organisers of good food. They are community builders, change makers, and champions of Australian farmers.

Many of you are women who have stepped up to create food communities right in your neighbourhoods, bringing people together around fresh, affordable produce.

You’re making real change every single week by:
• Building stronger neighbourhood connections
• Making fresh, healthy food more accessible to families
• Supporting Australian farming families to keep doing what they do best, growing food and food wholesalers who feed our nation
• Leading with generosity, care and purpose
• Lifting each other up and showing what collaboration looks like

Being part of this network means knowing you’re never doing it alone. You’re one of many passionate women who believe food can bring people together and that small local actions can create big collective impact.

Today we celebrate the leadership, resilience and heart that you bring to your hubs and your communities.

We’re incredibly proud to stand alongside so many inspiring women who are helping grow something bigger than all of us.
Happy International Women’s Day to our amazing Box Divvy Hubsters.

Thank you for the difference you make.

05/03/2026

Hello, I'm Shanti. With six years of experience running Boxdivvy in Greta, I'm pleased to share my story.

As a mother of four, my primary motivation for joining Boxdivvy was to reduce my grocery expenses and provide my family with fresh produce weekly. I appreciate that Boxdivvy supports local farmers and ensures the products stay fresh for longer, reducing waste and saving me money.
Our hub places weekly orders via an app, and after receiving the bulk purchase at a discounted price, I pack orders for members to collect.
We're eager to welcome new members and invite you to learn more at boxdivvy.com. Membership is free, and you can cancel or opt-out anytime.
Boxdivvy.com

22/02/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ArkLNf8X2/

14/02/2026

Save little Laylas eggs! Only $3.50 per dozen https://youtube.com/shorts/stLKcgosZFE?si=d9u2wVPf4C7lUDBbe

Hunter Valley eggs have a new flock in training so they’re undersized. 500 grams instead of 700gNormally they would have to throw them!But we reckon they are...

14/02/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AiefJB7KW/?mibextid=wwXIfr

What about the waste?

I’ve had a few people ask over the last year, what happens to all the waste? The boxes, the plastic and the food scraps?

Well, here at Box Divvy Bolton Point (and Box Divvy in general) we are SUPER passionate about waste and reducing it

- our green waste all goes to the chickens our members own
- anything unsafe for the chickens gets composted by our next door neighbours, along with any paper packing materials
- ALL of the pantry boxes, wax coated boxes and styrofoam boxes go back to the warehouse twice a week and get reused! (We have some boxes that have traveled around to different hubs for months!)
- cardboard trays either get reused for our hub members orders, or sent back to the warehouse to be reused

And now, we are very excited to say, even our soft plastics can be recycled!!

Our RecycleSmart bin arrived today and we are SO stoked to have it. The addition of this bin means that NOTHING goes in our red bin. Every single item from our hub can be reused or recycled 🥳🥳🥳

With Box Divvy, low prices and low food miles are just the start!!

I can’t wait to fill this baby up 🫶🏼

15/01/2026

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Box Divvy Lower Hunter Hubs page

Here you’ll find local Hubsters sharing updates on what Box Divvy is doing in your area - including:

♻️ Little recycling wins and how we keep packaging low
📦 Packing days, Hub set-ups, and what happens behind the scenes
💚 Kindness Boxes, sharing extras, and neighbours helping neighbours
🥕 Fresh, seasonal produce highlights
✨ Community snapshots, wins, and local stories

This page is here for locals who are curious about Box Divvy (including non-members!) - a window into how our community food co-op works and what makes it special.

✅ A quick note: this page isn’t used for member messaging or order support.
If you have questions, our moderators are here and happy to reply in the comments or messages.

Want to find a Hub near you?
👉https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/find-hubs

Follow along for updates, produce highlights, and local inspo - and if you’ve been thinking about joining, we’d love to have you! 💚
- The Box Divvy Lower Hunter Hubsters

Box Divvy connects your community with farmers and food producers to provide market-fresh, locally and Australian-grown, seasonal fruit, vegetables and groceries helping you cook and eat better for less.

18/10/2025

Ecokaps relaunch: NEW Dishwashing Sheets

Ecokaps are launching:
1. A new Dishwasher detergent in sheet form. Just pop into the little bucket and set it to run. Exhaustively tested by a large NZ manufacturer of dishwashers!
2. All other cleaning and handwash products have been converted to sheets, which dissolves so much better than the tablets. No more blocked spray pumps.
Ecokaps continues to keep single use plastic bottles from going to landfill.
The sheets are backward compatible with any existing bottles - but if you don’t have a bottle, just get yourself one of the kits.
The dishwashing sheets (and other eco-cleaning favourites) are effective, affordable, and environmentally friendly, with many products using a seaweed binding agent (sodium alginate). Safe for septic and grey water systems, these sheets help reduce plastic bottles and are better for the planet. Compared to other eco-sheet brands like Lucent Globe, Ecokaps delivers reliable performance without confusing labels or chemistry jargon. Just sheets that work.
For This Week: 9% Discount Included! Stock up on your favourites at Box Divvy:
• NEW: Dishwasher Enzym Detergent Sheets – 60 Pack $21.56 ($0.36/wash)
• Laundry Enzym Detergent Sheets – 60 Pack $18.48 ($0.31/wash)
• Floor Cleaner Sheets – 4 Pack $7.56
• Foaming Hand Soap – Sheet & Bottle Kit $11.55 / Refill 4 Pack $7.56 ($10.08/L)
• Kitchen Degreaser, Multipurpose Cleaner, Bathroom Cleaner, Glass Cleaner – 4 Sheet Refills $7.56 ($7.56/L)

Switch to Ecokaps for a cleaner home, a greener planet, and a smarter way to do everyday chores, all the while saving with this week’s relaunch prices. Your dishes, laundry, and surfaces have never been this guilt-free!

18/10/2025

Halloween …. Eeeeeek!!

Jack ‘O Lantern Halloween Pumpkins available from Box Divvy this week for $14 each. They weigh around 5kg. Here’s a video showing you how to carve one: https://ow.ly/Ei9h50XersY
Here are some more ideas: https://ow.ly/Q21X50XersW

Can you eat the flesh? Not really: when you clean them out, it’s mainly seeds – but…they can be dried and roasted! Most of the flesh needs to stay inside the pumpkin to give it structural strength and prevent it from caving in.

However, afterwards you can turn a Halloween pumpkin into a bird feeder by cutting it in half, scooping out the insides, adding perches and a hanging mechanism, and filling it with birdseed. This provides a temporary, biodegradable bird feeder as a way to reuse your pumpkin after Halloween.

17/10/2025

Christmas we close only 2 weeks. DATES are.....

Members please see the Christmas closure dates and pop into your diary. Remember if going away go to your Dashboard and use the SKIP A WEEK. When Box Divvy closes for 2 weeks only over Xmas there will be no orders offered. Your Hubsters will take a well earned break.

Maybe offer to help your Hubster:
Some Hubsters might need a replacement packer to help them if they go away over the school holidays. Here's an opportunity to help. They will offer some payment to do it and training so you know what to do. Make sure they give you a contact at Box Divvy if they are out of reach.

Here are the dates so please put them in your diary.

Cheers The Box Divvy team

16/10/2025

Did you know we interview farmers and wholesalers?

Yes we do plus we learn so much from them.

Check out all the Unsupermarket Podcasts here.

Our team spend time and effort going out in the field to do this and so please do let us know you like what we do with a 'thumbs up'. If you have some topics you'd like us to cover in 2026 please pop in comments or shoot us an email to info (at) https://ow.ly/56gA50Xa7Qg

If you are a one of our farmers or suppliers ask us to do a podcast with you :)

Here is the link to 'You Tube' to watch. If you prefer Spotify or Podbean to listen then go to these Apps and search Unsupermarket.
https://ow.ly/WK3i50Xa7Qv

16/10/2025

Food for Thought

Why Provenance is important

At a time when everyone seems to be claiming that they’re ‘supporting local farmers’, we need to ask ourselves: what’s local? And which farmers? And how supportive?

Because when push comes to shove, a lot turns out to be ‘farm-washing’, local means: anywhere in Australia, and supportive means: we just buy your produce at the lowest price, thank you very much. (And continue to charge customers like wounded bulls). Luckily, scientists are getting very close to being able to determine where a prawn was actually caught, or whether a corn-fed chicken was actually fed corn, or where a bunch of kale was grown locally (for example, by George Portelli in Maroota), or someplace else. https://ow.ly/QRb150Xa7OT

Box Divvy has invested a lot of time and effort into setting up the traceability and transparency of not only our fresh produce, but of all products we sell.

The importance of ‘provenance’ (literally: the place of origin ) is especially relevant when it comes to blueberries: a lot of publicity around the rapid expansion of blueberry farming around Coffs Harbour highlights two major issues: the improper and possibly excessive use of chemicals (and not following guidelines with regard to withholding periods – i.e. the minimum length of time between spraying and picking), and the flouting of labour laws by unscrupulous labour hire firms.
https://ow.ly/rEeA50Xa7P2

Around 90% of our blueberries are sourced from 2 suppliers:
• The bulk comes from Mountain Blue who has been growing in the Lismore hinterland in northern NSW since 1975. They are very strict on when and what chemicals they use, and on observing the withholding period when they do. In all their testing, they have never found any chemical residues. They also do not employ labour hire firms, instead preferring to employ picking and packing staff directly – and looking after them. For more information, check out their website – there are sections about sustainability and employment (including a handy guide about accommodation options – in case you were thinking of doing a road trip to the Northern Rivers region…)
• OZ Berries (Or: OZ Group) is a 100% farmer-owned co-operative (similar to Norco), with farms from Grafton to Macksville. Most are family farms, where literally the whole workforce of pickers and packers consists of husbands, wives, cousins, brothers and sisters. Where they employ external staff, they strictly follow ‘Fair Farms’ guidelines. https://ow.ly/k61950Xa7ON

Oz Group has been a Fair Farms member since 2019. All their berry supply is also compliant with Freshcare certification, which includes strict guidelines for chemical use. For more information (and to meet some of their growers), check out their website. https://ow.ly/jEBZ50Xa7P5