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About

The mission is to help us all find mutually beneficial ways to bring better health and sustainability to our lives, and our communities. For 10 years, The Organic Collective has grown in a grassroots fashion and helped nourished the bellies and hearts of so many people - by supporting organic farmers and sharing the fruits of their labour through the mixed seasonal box scheme. We know that for so many of you, eating organic is inspired by the need to find alternative solutions to health and the need to reduce our impact on the environment. Eating organic consciously grown food connects us with the spirit of the earth and a wholesome healthy outlook to approach our lives and the future.

We are a West Australian owned business offering a friendly and reliable service. We have been dedicated to great tasting healthy fresh certified organic, biodynamic, Fair trade and local food, products, and groceries. We support Western Australian farms and local growers as a priority. WE ACT LOCALY AND THINK GLOBAL, by supporting local growers who are land stewards for our local environment, this in turn supports the local economy and also helps reduce food miles and has less impact on the environment. Through helping to support and sustain a developing industry you will be supporting a sustainable healthy happy future for ourselves, our children and the planet. This website is part of the process of, helping creating more ways to interact - and act! - as a larger community. Please feel free to contact us with any ideas in regards to The Organic Collective. Come in and meet us at
Shop 1 Greenslade street Hamilton Hill, Perth, Western Australia. Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, or enjoy the benefits with out leaving home with our new online organic store.

 
At The Organic Collective we try our best to make every aspect of the box scheme service environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. Following are some of the things we have implemented to achieve this:

  • We supply simple healthy food, foods that are in their natural state and that have had minimal processing.
  • All our boxes for packing the fruit and vegetables in are recycled. We then re-use the boxes for deliveries and re-collect them to use again. This reduces waste and recycles resources.
  • We have a responsibility to protect the environment. We support and encourage reducing packaging and waste; we do this by encouraging the purchase of bulk food and other products that have reduced or reusable packaging
  • We keep unnecessary packaging, storage and transportation to a minimum.
  • We sort and recycled whatever waste we produce to limit the amount that ends up in land fill.
  • All our green waste fruit and vegetable scraps are taken to Murdoch University Environmental Technology Centre (E.T.C) to be used is composting and worm farm displays and demonstration models.
  • We subscribe to 100% Natural Power/Green Power. This is a great way for businesses and people to show support for sustainable energy production to the large energy providers. GreenPower is a national accreditation program that sets stringent environmental and reporting standards for renewable electricity products offered by energy suppliers to households and businesses across Australia. GreenPower aims to increase Australia's capacity to produce environmentally friendly renewable electricity by driving demand for alternative energy generation. We encourage everyone to use GreenPower, go to www.greenpower.gov.au to find information and your provider.
  • Our delivery vehicles are Carbon Neutral. We subscribe to the Carbon Neutral program of Men of The Trees, were we pay a sum of money that equates to the amount of trees that need to be planted to offset our delivery vehicles carbon omission on a yearly basis. Going carbon neutral is an easy way that we can all contribute to a solution by taking responsibility for the carbon dioxide emissions we create with our cars, airplanes and energy use.
  • Our priority is to buy locally grown organic food to cut down on the environmental damage of long distance food transport. This also supports the local economy as well as ensuring the freshness. Sometimes we have to look a little farther afield to ensure our range consists of quality products, whilst still being affordable.
  • Where possible we favour Fair Trade suppliers which support our belief in fairness and sustainable trading conditions.
  • We support many grass root environmental projects such as City Farm, Activate Tree Planting, Hilton Harvest, Ghana Permiculture institute, Earthdance Western Australia, Play in the wild, Spearwood alternative school, Grate mates, Blue gum monitisorri, MINDD and other organisations wherever possible. We see community support as local, regional, national and international and continue to make decisions that will positively contribute to community all levels. We are connected to many communities and believe in giving back to the community and encouraging communal enjoyment of good food and helping healthy fundraising options for not for profit organisations.
  • We have support Full circle RTR fm community radio with donations of mixed boxes for prizes during their subscriberthon.
  • Weekly we produce a newsletter educating people about topical issues such as organics, Genetic Modification, local environmental issues, living green as well as information about up and coming environmental related events along with seasonal recipes to help people re adjust to seasonal fruit and vegetable eating.
  • At the Organic Collective we always print on 100% recycled paper
  • Our business cards use vegetable based inks. From the Environmental Printing Company
  • Ph: 9271 1569, greenprinting@iinet.net.au, web www.environmentalprintingco.com
  • We use environmentally friendly cleaning products in our shop & warehouse.

As you can see our commitment to the environment and the community is real 'we walk our talk'. We hope as The Organic Collective grows so does our partnerships with these organisations that are very important within our community, as we look for more sustainable ways of living.

We have created a happy and positive work environment valued by us and our staff where we work together with honesty, integrity, respect and in ethical manner. We have a deep appreciation of the critical role the farmers and others have had including employees and community in helping to build The Organic Collective into what it is today and will be into the future.

Feel free to contact us, as the lines of communication are always open and we would love to hear your feedback and ideas in regards to The Organic Collective. We wish to ensure a quality and valued service within the community.

The Organic Collective has been an evolving project that we have committed ourselves whole heartedly to since 2001. Our objective is to supply quality clean fresh organic foods conveniently and affordably for a broad cross section of the community. We look forward to your ongoing support as we continue striving to provide a valued, healthy, ethical and economical service into the future. Please do not hesitate to give us a call if you have any questions, queries or comments as your feedback is greatly appreciated and ultimately helps us improve what we do.

The Organic Collective is a small local business, we prefer to save our limited resources and don't believe in spending large amounts of money and wasting resources on advertising, so please pass on this information or forward this website to your families and friends who you think would be interested in box scheme, as we rely on your word of mouth recommendations.

Enjoy!

We wish you Health, Happiness and Vitality into the Future.

We are always updating the website so please visit again soon.

Clean Great Tasting Food, Protecting Our Environment,
Community Co-operation & Empowerment, Sustainable Living,
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