⏰ EARLY CLOSE — ORDERS CLOSE AT 9PM TONIGHT (TUE)

Boxes delivered to your hub on Thursday this week

🏷️ Your beef & lamb used-by dates — please read

The used-by dates our butcher printed on the labels are wrong — they're too short on the bigger cuts — and he apologises. A few of you have asked, so here is the guide to go by instead. It's for vacuum-sealed, unopened packs in a fridge at 4°C or colder:

🥩 Roasts, racks and whole cuts (beef & lamb) — 3 weeks in the fridge. Add 2 weeks to the label.
🔪 Steaks and chops — 2 weeks in the fridge. Add 1 week to the label.
🧊 Sausages and mince — these should be in your freezer by now. The label is right for these ones. If they're still in the fridge and it's been more than a week, please don't risk them.
🍽️ Once a pack is opened, cook it within 2–3 days. In the freezer, vacuum-sealed cuts keep 6–12 months.

Why we're comfortable with this: Australian meat research (CSIRO and Meat & Livestock Australia) gives vacuum-packed beef 10–12 weeks and lamb 8–10 weeks in a commercial chiller. A home fridge runs warmer, which roughly halves that — so the guide above sits well inside the safe range.

This week's picks 🧺

Good buying across the veg this week — the brassicas especially.

🥦 Cauliflower — $5.32 each

🥦 Broccoli — $2.38 each

🌿 Fennel — $3.80 each

🥒 Continental cucumbers — $3.17 each

🥒 Zucchini — $1.33 each

🥬 Brussels sprouts — $3.17 a punnet

🍅 Truss tomatoes — $1.40 each (on the small side — see below)

🍅 Petite mini romas — $4.75 a punnet (Blueys $3.90)

🫑 Green capsicums — $2.85 each

🍠 Sweet potato (kumera) — $5.70 a kilo

🫛 Green beans — $2.28 per 100g

🍄 Mushrooms — cups $1.81 per 100g · flats $2.85 per 200g

🥑 Avocados — $2.89 each

🥔 Hawkes potatoes — now the Gatsby variety: 5kg $20.90 · 10kg $38.00

Nudging up 👆

Just the one this week — everything else holds.

🫙 Mumma Made — relishes, jams, mustards, hommus and kimchi all up about a dollar: Classic Tomato Relish, Breakfast Marmalade & Strawberry Rhubarb Jam $13.95 · Korean Kimchi $15.50

From the market this week 🧺

🫑 Capsicums are coming from Queensland at the moment. The South Australian ones we usually buy haven't been about — they're back this week, but at almost double the price, so we're sticking with Queensland for now.

🥑 Avocados have been short as the season crosses over to WA. The seasons haven't lined up this year, so we're taking what we can get.

🍅 Truss tomatoes are still on the small side because of the weather. We could bring in big SA ones, but we're sticking with local — they'll size up as it warms.

🍊 Mandarins are getting towards the end of their season, so the quality may vary a little from here.

A sorry about the basil 🌿

We had the coolroom turned right down for the meat last week, and it looks like the basil got cold-burnt overnight. If your bunch arrived with blackened or wilted leaves, that's on us — apologies. Let us know and we'll sort it.

Beef & Lamb — the last of the batch 🥩

The Balnarring beef and Merricks lamb went quickly — the eye fillet, scotch, short ribs, diced and mince are all gone. What's still on the site is below. Prices are per pack (weights are approximate), and some of it is down to the last one or two.

🐑 Lamb — frenched rack (600–700g, 8–10 point) $39.90 · chump chops (600g) $23.99 · forequarter chops (500g) $15.00 · ribs (600–700g) $9.60 · leg roast, bone-in (2.5kg) $45.00 or (2.7kg) $48.50 · sausages (500g) $12.00 (2 left) · boneless shoulder (2kg) $59.90 (last one) · bone-in shoulder roast (2.6kg) $69.00 (last one)

🐄 Beef — rump steak (400g) $34.80 · T-bone 2-pack (about 1kg) $57.50 (last one) · topside roast (2kg) $49.00 · silverside roast (2kg) $46.00 (last one) · girello roast (1.65kg) $45.00 (last one) · brisket flat (1.3kg) $36.40 (last one) · whole rump (1.34kg) $116.00 (last one)

Find them under Beef and Lamb on the site. Grass fed & finished, all local — once these are gone, that's the batch. 💚

Hastings Hub is up and running 🎉

Our newest hub is open and taking boxes — just behind Woolworths in Hastings. Choose Hastings Hub when you join, or if you're already with us and would like to move across, pop "Hastings Hub" in your order notes and we'll switch you over. Know someone down that way? Send them our way. 💚

Your Order, Your Way

This week only: orders close 9pm tonight (Tuesday) and boxes are delivered Thursday, ahead of the Grand Final holiday. Normally you can update anytime from Thursday through to 5pm Wednesday — adjust, add or remove as often as you like — and you're not charged until after the close. Prices are updated each week with the seasonal changes and any new products. Fortnightly customers: wait until your pick-up week to edit.

Welcome Gift 🎁

New members get a free loaf of Lievito bread and a dozen free-range Somerville Egg Farm eggs — while stocks last.

Refer a Friend

Refer a friend and you both get the welcome gift (bread + eggs, each). Your friend just pops your name in their order notes — or vice versa. Plus $15 to Nourish for every referral. Sign up at jointly.shop.

Jointly Nourish 💚

Together we shared $515 of fresh produce with our community this past week — a large box to Somerville, medium boxes to Selby and Frankston South, and the balance to MPCSC (the Mornington Peninsula Community Support Centre).