About us

What are we about?

Nourishing Mountains is a community oriented, not for profit initiative.

Our goal is to make organic food as affordable as possible to the people of the Blue Mountains while still rewarding all the participants in the supply chain fairly.

We aspire to source our produce directly from local farmers. When organically grown produce is not available locally, it is sourced from certified organic wholesalers. 

How did we start out?

It all started over 7 years ago when Orit together with Kaya founded the group, from a thread on the Blue Mountains Natural Parenting Facebook page, where people commented on how they would love to be able to receive fresh organic fruit and vegetable boxes that would take off their shoulders the chore of going to the shop to do the shopping themselves. For parents of little children or for people who don't have easy access, getting to the shop can be challenging. 

We started out by sorting in our car port in Katoomba in summer and in Kaya's living room in winter. Volunteers would come every week to help us sort and we had beautiful, organic fruit and veg boxes at wholesale prices. We are still going strong. A number of things have changed but the ethos is essentially the same.