Box Divvy Bowral, NSW

Box Divvy's mission is to provide quality food, pay farmers fairly and make fresh food available at extraordinary prices. It is a Social Enterprise building a Community Food Hub to SAVE your wallet, health & the planet, one household at a time.

Box Divvy is an online ordering platform where we share weekly boxes of fruits, veges, groceries as well as meat & seafood (monthly). 

YOU ORDER WHAT YOU WANT - it's not the conventional co-op style. Pay farmers fairly by buying direct and purchasing as a group. Low food miles, less packaging, reduce food waste and you join a food community making a difference and good choices so helping reduce our carbon footprint.

A Food Hub is run by someone in your community known as a Hubster. Located at a house, local community centre/group, a fundraiser for scouts or school. The Bowral Hub has recently opened and is being run by two Bowral locals. You can join the Bowral Hub here.

We order directly from our local (mostly NSW) farmers and pay farming families fairly. The profits are channeled back into lowering prices for our members (30 - 60% lower than shops).

The produce is SUPER FRESH... you will be amazed at the difference.

The ETHOS of the Box Divvy way….

It is best to involve community & access farming families in Australia, offer seasonal & make sure everyone is paid fairly along the process of food delivery.

The Box Divvy Community are partners with Western Sydney Diabetes Building Fresh Food Communities

The goal is providing fresh food that is inexpensive, accessible & as a community learning what great meals we can make.

Box Divvy is a Social Enterprise Business so community own the food system in order to change the way it currently works.

It was created by farmers Anton van den Berg and Jayne Travers-Drapes to activate and involve community.

Box Divvy is all about people and not robots pick and packing groceries as supermarkets move more towards.

The Hubster is the Food Warrior for their community – educating their members plus offering good fresh food. Sharing recipes, and info about who grew their food and how to store fresh produce.

Box Divvy aims to have accessible, inexpensive fresh food available to all. The general population eat ENERGY high processed instead of nutritionally high.

Box Divvy pays their farmers well between $0.65-$0.70 cents for every $1 a member spends. Supermarkets pay $0.30 cents. Profits are returned to reduce prices so we are up to 40% cheaper than online supermarkets. Fruit, veg, bread, eggs, meat, seafood, chicken, groceries.

Fresh food should not cost the earth.

We purchase as a group from Sydney Food Bowl, local farmers plus nationally when required in season. About 50% seasonally are Sydney Food Bowl farmers, we know them , and they use no sprays as do Box Divy Backyard Growers (a new program being introduced to make fresh food Hyper-local) stay tuned…

As a community group, now over 5,500 families and more than 130 Box Divvy Food Hubs, we are working to make a resilient food system as climate is changing as so aim to de-scentralise the food supply.

Members always get extras, more than what they have paid for. With some of the extras we make up a Kindness Box which goes to maybe a women's refuse, street kitchen, family in need of support….the essence is community

Box Divvy is a registered business with Service NSW and our hub has approved NSW Health Covid Safe Plan in place. QR Code check in at pick-up, wear a mask and one person at a time.

Social Initiative

Cast your mind back to late February and early March: flood waters in Lismore rose to over 13 metres, inundating the town and destroying several thousand homes in its wake.

Then in late March: a second flood, taking whatever was still standing. More than 3000 dwellings were either destroyed, declared unliveable or severely damaged.

One Box Divvy Hubster took it upon herself to help the families of Lismore.

Sarah Jones, our Hubster in Bonny Hills near Port Macquarie: with the help of her Hub members, she managed to send a couple of big loads of fresh produce to Lismore In April.

Whilst they have no shortage of packaged groceries, Sarah’s supply has pretty much been the only fresh food they’ve received.

Box Divvy is all about supporting communities, so we talked to Slade Transport who takes our produce up to Hubs near Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour, and got them to agree to take a weekly pallet of fresh produce up to Lismore during the month of May – at no charge.

The first pallet was delivered on 3rd of May which Box Divvy funded.

To help with subsequent deliveries, Box Divvy has set-up a feature in the ordering system for members that would like to donate.

If you have already logged in this week, you will have noticed the very first item in Marketplace.

Every dollar donated, Box Divvy will supply two dollars worth of fresh produce – and will keep going as long as our members support the drive.

You can select it either as part of the Starting Order (1 item = 1 dollar), or add it to the Splits. Each week, we will report how much was donated – and how much was sent up to Lismore. 

The hubster fees associated with your donation get donated back. IE. If you are donating $1 then this is effectively $1.12.

We’ll aim to continue this until the end of May and then review it with Lifeline.

Thank you in advance for helping!