Fresh Reads

Every year, around about now, the onslaught begins. Your inbox fills with emails promising massive savings. Ads are relentless, shouting “DON’T MISS OUT!” like the world will end if you don’t buy a cheap air fryer by midnight. And for a while there, Eatlocal jumped on the Black Friday bandwagon. We worked out what we thought we wouldn't mind losing, designed the graphics, posted them all over our socials, and hoped that maybe it would feel like a good fit. It never really did

Crates. We use a lot of them here at Eatlocal. All the produce we source from our suppliers comes to us in crates of varying sizes, depending on what is inside. Pumpkins for example, are in very deep, high-sided ones, whilst much shallower ones are used for avocados and other fruit. The crates are cleverly designed to stack neatly on top of one another so that they don't move in transit, and the produce inside is always filled to a level where a crate placed on top won't d

When Covid-19 came along, as people began to shop and order much more online, it changed the game for many of the national courier companies with the massive and unprecedented influx in volume they suddenly had to deal with. In order to give you the service you deserve and to reflect our "support local" ethos, Eatlocal has teamed up with some fabulous family-run courier companies to deliver your fresh produce boxes. As Eatlocal continues to grow, thanks to amazing customers l

Eatlocal were excited to be approached by stuff.co.nz for a positive, good news story about how some businesses have grown during lockdown. The article was published online and in the Life section in The Press - ' Demand for fresh produce boxes booms under lockdown. ' The journalist from Stuff called me and asked why our fresh produce box business had seen a spike in orders as New Zealand faced another lockdown. “It’s fresh, it’s local, it’s much nicer than going to the supe