uForage

22/08/2026

Ten containers came back
Australian mung beans, rejected this month, tested five times over the residue limit. It made the rural press and then it disappeared.
The part that got me
Nothing changed about the growing. The rules had been sitting there the whole time. What changed is that someone started enforcing them.
Some numbers
Around 95% of the Australian mung bean crop gets sprayed with herbicide before harvest, to dry the plant down so it can be picked. That's the Grains Research and Development Corporation's own estimate. The 2026 crop is 100,000 to 120,000 tonnes and almost all of it gets exported.
The reality check
I'm not here to tell you your food is dangerous. Residue limits are trade thresholds, they sit well below what's considered safe to eat, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. Growers get caught out by this even when they follow the label. One green corner of a paddock and the whole consignment fails.
What I actually think about
The standard that food had to clear was set by a buyer overseas. Not by us. Not by anyone eating it here.
The other option
Someone within 10km of you has more citrus than they can use right now. That's not a supply chain. That's a neighbour.
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20/08/2026

20/08/2026

I put a $12 lettuce back on the shelf and it ended up building an app. Stay with me.
Covid. Everything was strange and everything was expensive, and there I was in the shop doing maths on a lettuce like it was a car payment. Four kids at home. That number was not happening.
🥬 WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
I mentioned it to my neighbour. She walked me out the back, cut one out of her garden and handed it over. No money. No fuss. She had too many and I had none, and that was the entire transaction.
🗺️ WHY THAT MOMENT STUCK
She wasn't a business. She wasn't a market. She was a few hundred metres away and I had no way of knowing what was growing back there. That gap is the reason uForage exists.
📍 THE PART PEOPLE MISS
Everyone hears this and pictures themselves as the one who got the free lettuce. Be the other one. If you've got a tree dropping fruit on the lawn or a bed of something that bolted, that isn't surplus. That's somebody's week.
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19/08/2026

I don't post politics. I post food. This time they're the same post.
Every number on those slides is sourced. Here they are, so you can check me and so you can quote them.
🍋 Foodbank Hunger Report 2025 - 1 in 3 households, 3.5 million, food insecure in the past 12 months. 20% severely. 68% of single parent households. 67% of households with a disability or health issue. 1 in 5 households earning over $91,000.
🍋 Same report - 45% won't ask for help because they're embarrassed or ashamed.
🍋 Federal Budget 2025-26 - $3.5 million committed to develop Feeding Australia, the national food security strategy.
🍋 National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study, End Food Waste Australia - 7.6 million tonnes wasted a year. $36.6 billion. About 1.4% of GDP. That study came out in 2021 using 2019 numbers and it's still the most recent we have.
🍋 Federal Court, 14 May 2026 - Coles found to have engaged in misleading conduct over Down Down pricing. Woolworths judgment reserved.
🍋 Dairy farms - 6,308 in 2014. 4,420 by 2022. Victoria has gone from over 7,400 dairy businesses at the turn of the century to under 2,800.
🍋 NSW Food Act - penalties up to $275,000 for selling unpasteurised milk.
What I'm not saying
I'm not telling you to drink raw milk. I'm not saying food safety rules are pointless.
I'm saying look at the proportions. We regulate the smallest end of the food system down to the individual egg, and the biggest end wastes $36.6 billion a year while a third of us go without.
Small gets rules. Big gets time to review the judgement.
And one thing I'm asking
If you've read this far, tell me what you've been fined, refused, or made to register for. Council rules about your hens. A stall you were told to shut down. A tree you weren't allowed to pick. I want to know how widespread this actually is, and honestly the comments on posts like this are where our best content comes from.

15/08/2026

Nobody talks about this one.
One in three Australian households ran out of food, or worried they would, in the last twelve months. That's 3.5 million homes.
Here's the part that gets me though.
Almost half of the people going through it say embarrassment or shame stops them asking for help.
So it stays invisible. It's not happening in the news. It's happening in the house next to yours, quietly, while everyone smiles at the school gate.
Who it's actually hitting 🍋
🥬 68% of single parent households
🥬 Nearly 1 in 2 renting households
🥬 61% of food insecure homes are at the severe end, skipping meals or going full days without eating
Meanwhile 🌿
There's fruit rotting under trees all over this country. Lemons nobody can keep up with. Zucchini that got out of hand in about four days. Eggs stacking up on the bench.
I'm not going to pretend a bag of surplus mandarins fixes any of this. It doesn't. But it's a real thing that a real person nearby can actually use, and you already have it.
If you've got too much of something
Pin it on uForage. Free, sell it, swap it, whatever suits you. Takes about two minutes.
Somebody within a few streets of you is already looking.
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12/08/2026

Kinda chic to be the house with the tree.
Not the house with the pool. The house with the tree.
🍋 Your citrus is going off right now and you cannot eat it fast enough
🍋 You have run out of people to give it to
🍋 Someone four streets away is paying supermarket prices for the same fruit
🍋 They have no idea you exist
That's the only problem here. Not supply. Not generosity. Just nobody knowing.