How it all began
This all started because of a love of olive oil. Assuming that if she bought in large quantities she could negotiate lower prices, our friend Liesl began buying it in bulk for her and her friends. Soon she became known as the “olive oil lady”. As delicious as the olive oil was, it was unfortunately manufactured in Italy. This became a real problem as she started to learn more about the benefits and responsibilities of supporting local producers. And so her journey to source and provide good, locally produced and sustainable food for her family began.
As her enthusiasm and discoveries spread her friends wanted in, and her olive oil group soon grew to include pesto and cheese. Once again, they discovered that price and delivery is directly related to volume, and so Liesl’s home became the hub for monthly orders of these goods. Her friends would pop in once a month to fetch their orders and Liesl really enjoyed this time to chat to those she wouldn’t necessarily see that often. It became a connecting point based on a growing common desire to put good, well-produced food onto their families’ tables.