Welcome to the Twist and Sprout blog. I'd like to share with you a brief story on how T&S came about and what the plans are for the future.
I have always been interested in the environment, and that interest became more specifically aimed towards agriculture and our food system in my uni days. I have also had the good fortune to be raised in a family that abhorred littering and reused plastics bags until they were completely worn out. I moved back to the country after a decade in Melbourne, where there are bulk stores and farmers markets galore. I found the lack of plastic-free options in the regional area frustrating. Covid-19 restrictions and shutdowns certainly didn't help. Many of the supermarket options in country areas are the big 3 supermarkets (Woolworths, Coles and Aldi) and there are fewer independent grocers.
I knew of some zero-waste and plastic-free businesses in other countries, including mobile zero-waste pantry vans and brick-and-mortar zero-waste shops. I wished that we had this option in my area. I decided to create the business that I wished existed. And so began Twist and Sprout.
Twist and Sprout is one of the first business ventures under the umbrella of Sprout Village, which will one day be an intentional eco-community, with a goal of community self-sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, and living lightly on the earth. If you're interested in these concepts, please check out our website to read more.
Twist and Sprout is currently a market stall, with plans to become a mobile business based in a van, and one day a store with a shopfront and a much larger range of packaging-free products for the local community.
Thank you for the visiting the site, and I hope to see you at a market soon.
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