James Samuel

Trading through a Facebook group, is so simple and natural, and after all it’s where the crowd is. After only a few weeks, membership of the “Waiheke Trading” Facebook is up to 660 members, and the Waiheke community are embracing it with alacrity.

The crowd is building, down at the buyers club, which has only been open for three weeks now. A simple concept… get a group of people together, who know each other, and begin buying (in this case organic foods in the form of dry goods and produce), have some people run it like an enterprise [...]

I interviewed Meriel and Jo from Tidal Organics at the Farmer’s Market on Sunday, but for some reason there was no sound on the video, so I’ll do it again and post their comments next week. However, one thing I recall them saying quite strongly was that this market, though in its infancy, is having [...]