Why eat local?
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We all need to eat. We need our farmers and they need us! Local farms and farmers make an important contribution to our local economy, our community and our landscapes. Concern around long-term food security (access by all to affordable, nutritious food) is growing, due to issues such as loss of agricultural land due to changes in land use, climate variability, soil health decline, rising fuel and fertiliser prices, and an ageing farm workforce. By purchasing fresh food produced by our local farmers, you are:
From the Mountains to the Murray, the farmers of North East Victoria and the Albury region produce an amazing diversity of fresh produce. Let's keep it that way! |
The original printed edition of this guide, the North East Local Produce Guide, was launched by Costa Georgiadis, host of ABC's Gardening Australia, in September 2014. Costa spoke passionately about the importance of locally-grown food and the value of the guide. "It really represents everything I believe a food system should be. Something that's local, something that's family-based, something that drives community, something that builds employment." said Costa. "Such a publication is way more powerful than it looks." See what else Costa has to say about local food and farmers in this short video. |
Local farmers & producers included in this guide
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Gooramadda Olives Allans Flat Berries Alpine Dorpers Alpine Provender Australian Pumpkin Seed Company Batlow Blooms Beechworth Berries Beechworth Honey Blue Ox Berries Boosey Creek Cheese Boosey Creek Olive Oil Bright Berry Farms Buffalo Blueberries Bunyip Hollow Cherrytime Orchard Chiltern Honey Farm Coop's Cackleberries Cornwall Farm CossiBlues Cottonwood Organics Craig Pace Apiaries Dawn View Olive Oil Delta Dorpers Earthcare Farm El Dorado Garlic and Chilli Co Eldorado Orchards Europa Gully Orchard EV Olives Gapsted Olive and Walnut Grove Glenrowan Desert Limes Gnangara Premium Fresh Gooramadda Olives |
Grass Roots Beef Green Gate Organic Farm Greta Valley Free Range Eggs Greta Valley Free Range Pork Hachibee Honey Happy Beef Herry's Harvest Hicks Country Beef High Grove Berry Farm Hillsborough Quality Nuts Holbrook Paddock Eggs Homestead Estate Hotson's Cherries Huon Farms Jade Quality Kiwi Fruit Katamatite Garlic Kergunyah Mushrooms Kiewa Estate Olives King Valley Dairy King Valley Walnuts KNM Berries and Fruit Lesuti Kiwi Fruit Locheilan Farmhouse Cheese Long Lane Capers Milawa Organic Beef Mountain Fresh Trout & Salmon Farm Mr Mushroom True Blue Honey Mt Buffalo Olives Mt Pilot Estate Myrrhee Premium Boer Goats |
Newtons Organic Prickleberry Farm Nightingale Bros Nuts About Wood Peechelba Produce RAD Growers Rising Sun Olive Grove Ross Tomatoes Rush Not Garlic Rutherglen Premium Lamb S, M, J & R LaSpina Sinclair Orchards Snow View Berries Snowline Fruits Snowy Creek Produce Storey Grove Tarrawalla Farm The Wicked Virgin Tolmie Gold Saffron Tolpuddle Torcaso Produce Valley Nut Groves Verduci Fresh Produce Walkabout Apiaries Wandiful Produce Wangrove Warby Free Range Pork Warrawee Apple Orchard Weeping Grass Creek Prime Lamb Whitlands Produce Willowbank Yalandra |
Acknowledgments
The development of the Mountains to Murray Local Produce Guide was supported by the North East Catchment Management Authority with funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program. On-going site maintenance is supported by the Beechworth Health Service.
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