Weekly Market Update & News

4th Feb 2026

ORDERS CLOSE AT 9PM tonight (Wed)

(Note Mt Martha collection will be in the room closer to the kinda - it has Air conditioning - if it's warm that's where we will be each time)

IN THIS UPDATE

Super local fruit highlights 🌱
Red Hill blueberries (unsprayed, no pesticides) $5.50, Blood plums 45c ea, kids-size Fuji apples (117g) perfect for lunchboxes.

Veggie updates & good value 🥦
Victorian broccoli $2.45 ea, red capsicum $2.01 ea, cauliflower $4.65 ea, plus super fresh spinach, mixed lettuce & rocket from Coolibah Herbs.

A quick note on the weather 🌦
Heat, wind and cooler days are affecting quality — growers do their best, but sometimes nature wins.

New test item 🍎
Red Hill kids-size Fuji apples, 117g, just 65c ea.

Meat update — progress (and a question) 🥩
We've found a local beef farmer — now we're looking for a butcher willing to process a whole animal. Know anyone?

Local favourites reminder 🥜
Darryl's Peanut Butter & Gerry's Pittes — perfect for pizza, souvlaki or warming with butter.

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This Week's Market Update — Local Highlights & Seasonal Reality

We've got some great local produce to highlight this week, along with a quick note on how the recent weather is affecting quality across the market.

🫐 Local Blueberries — Red Hill
We now have local Red Hill blueberries, unsprayed and grown with no pesticides, available at $5.50 per punnet.
Beautiful quality and something we're really excited to offer.

🍑 Plum of the Week — Red Hill Blood Plums
Our plum of the week is the Red Hill Blood Plum — great value at just 45¢ each and eating really well right now.

🌦 A Note on the Weather
The recent mix of extreme heat, strong winds, and then cold days is impacting some produce quality.
If you take a look at your own garden, you'll get a sense of what growers are dealing with. They always do their best to bring us the best available, but sometimes nature has the final say.

🥦 Veggie Updates
• We trialled local broccoli, but for now we're heading back to our regular Victorian broccoli, which is good value this week at $2.45 each
• Red Capsicums — $2.01 each
• Cauliflower — $4.65 each

As always, we've also got our super-fresh Spinach, Mixed Lettuce and Rocket from our local friends at Coolibah Herbs.

🍎 New Test Item — Red Hill Kids-Size Fuji Apples
We're trialling local Red Hill kids-size Fuji apples, 117g each, priced at 65¢.
Perfect for lunchboxes, fresh, crisp, and just the right size.

🥜 Don't Forget the Extras
Remember to grab Darryl's Peanut Butter and Gerry's Pittes — great for pizza nights, souvlaki, or simply warmed with butter to have alongside a meal.

Thanks, as always, for supporting local growers and producers 💚
We'll keep sharing what's new, what's local, and what's worth grabbing each week.

🥩 Meat Update — A Step Forward (and a Question for You)

We've got a positive update on the meat front.

We now have a local farmer willing to supply us with live, local beef — which is a big step in the right direction. The next piece of the puzzle is finding the right butcher.

We're currently making enquiries, but we'd also love to hear from you:
Do you know a butcher who might be interested in processing a whole animal? Email hello@jointly.shop or sms/call Pete on 0447 253 420.

Going this route means the entire animal needs to be sold for it to be viable. There are a couple of ways this could work:

• Selling the beef in halves, quarters, or eighths, or

• Selling individual cuts until the whole animal is accounted for

There may also be an option to share the meat with the butcher as part of the arrangement.

It's early days, but it's exciting progress.

Watch this space — we'll keep you all in the loop as things develop.

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💚 Jointly Nourish Update

It's exciting to see more families choosing fresh fruit and veggies — healthy really is catching on, and that's great news for everyone involved.

If you know of anyone in your Hub community who's doing it tough or could use a hand, please let us know. We're always happy to have part of our 5 % giving allocation directed locally through you.

Thanks to your continued support, we were able to share $357 worth of fresh produce (at cost) with local organisations doing amazing work — including $105 donated directly by our Jointly community. 🙌

Here's where the produce went this week:

• Communit Caring got 100% of giving this week.

  
  

Each box is more than just food — it's a reminder that our community is stronger when we look after one another.

Thank you for making Nourish possible 💛

Our Vision (Why Jointly Exists)

At Jointly, our vision is simple:
to make fresh, healthy, affordable, and sustainable food the easy choice for families — while supporting local growers, strengthening community connection, and caring for those doing it tough.

Week after week, many of you tell us:
"The produce tastes better."
"It lasts longer."
"My kids are choosing fruit again."

That's not by chance. Fresher food can contain up to 70% more essential vitamins and minerals than produce that's travelled long distances and sat for days or weeks. Freshness isn't a nice extra — it's central to health.

🚜 How We're Fulfilling This Vision (Together)

• Freshness first – produce is picked and delivered within ~48 hours where possible, straight from local farms and the Melbourne Market to your Hub.

  
  

• Community Hubs – one delivery per Hub means fewer food kilometres, less waste, and the ability to deliver produce the same day we collect it. Individual home deliveries simply can't achieve this.

  
  

• Fair pricing – we actively compare against major supermarkets to stay competitive without squeezing farmers.

  
  

• Local-first sourcing – Mornington Peninsula farms and small producers are prioritised whenever available.

  
  

• Low waste, low packaging – reused boxes and minimal packaging, using plastics only when they genuinely extend shelf life.

  
  

• Nourish – through Jointly Nourish, that same fresh, healthy food is shared with local families doing it tough, because access to good food shouldn't depend on circumstance.

This system only works because of you.
By choosing to shop through your Hub, you're helping build something that's fresher, fairer, and deeply connected — week after week.