18/12/2024
Just like that we are at the end of the year already.
Thank you for supporting us and our growers for another big year. We are lucky to spend our days working with a community of people who care about the same things we do - good food, care for the environment and support of Australian growers.
Heading into 2025 we have made the tough decision not to reopen the Wednesday Moorooka Midweek Market. We have also decided not to open the pop up retail shop in the warehouse on a Wednesday.
For those of you who order from us online, or visit us at Northey Street Markets, nothing will change.
We started Sovereign Foods with the goal of sourcing Australian grown pantry produce to make it accessible in a market that has been flooded by cheap imports. As food eaters, we wanted access to affordable perishables (fruit, vege, dairy, bread) hence our desire to open our warehouse to everyone for the Moorooka Midweek Market. To do this well and ensure that everything arrives at its freshest requires a lot of attention and a lot of labour.
This year, as our online business has continued to grow, we have struggled to do both the bulk foods and the perishables as well as we would like with the resources we have. When we asked ourselves the important questions about priorities, the answer started to become clear: we need to get back to the reason we started, which is to ensure that people have access to Australian grown organic and chemical free pantry produce in a market that is greatly under serviced.
We will continue to peddle our pantry produce online and at northeystorganicmarket on Sunday, but after this week we will not offer perishables (including fruit, veg, dairy, bread). We have also decided we won’t be opening the warehouse to the public every Wednesday, as without the Moorooka Members Market, it is not viable to set up the pop-up shop each week. In the future, we will look to have an ongoing retail set up, but we aren’t ready for that yet.
If you wish to continue to support us, you can still order online. You can choose to get your order couriered or you can select a number of pick up options through the week from our warehouse, or from Northey Street Markets on Sunday.
Thank you all for your understanding and support. We are about to have our yearly break and the warehouse will be closed Monday 23 December and we will re-open Monday 6 January. Our last Sunday market at Northey Street will be on Sunday 22 December and our first market back will be Sunday 5 January.
With gratitude
Thor, Tara and the Sovereign Foods Team
