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WHERE TO BUY ORGANIC FOOD IN PERTH
I believe that buying organic and bio dynamic food is the easiest way for
you to obtain more nutrient dense food, with less pesticide load. It also
enables you to support sustainable and environmentally compatible farming
systems. One of the most difficult things about sourcing good food in Perth
is the relatively large spread of small shops, each with their relative
strengths. It’s difficult to go to one shop and have all needs met.
No matter where you live, I recommend the first thing you do is go and visit
what’s around and see what they do and then stop by and pick things
up when you are in the area. I have a favourite for flours, one for fresh
meat, one for ease, one for price and so on.
Do remember also to look for the guarantee of certification. If unsure,
it is your right to ask to see that certification, and in the case of
fruit and vegetables a good shop will tell you where it has come from
and who has grown it.
Absolutely Organic
North Beach Road (virtually on the corner of Karrinyup Road) Gwelup.
They
have a good range of fruit and vegetables, excellent quality and at
a good price. They have grains, legumes, fridge, frozen meat and other
goods.
Dewsons (IGA) in Wembley
cnr Jersey and Cambridge St, and varying IGA
stores.
Eggs, Dairy and Fresh Meat - Lamb and Beef with a good range of dry
and wet products. Well priced.
Fremantle Markets
Small organic section, fruit and veg.
The Green Bean Store + Café
25D Gallipoli Street, Lathlain
Comprehensive range of fresh and frozen foods, dry and packaged goods, cleaning products, skin care and cosmetics. Great new store with a wholefood café that opens from 9am-4pm Mon- Sat.
Healthy Valley Organics/Alive Organics
Shop 7/507-515 Walter Rd East, Morley
Most comprehensive range of organic dry fruits and nuts in Perth, full
shop and fruit/veg. Specialises in raw and living foods. Now with a new juice and smoothie bar.
Loose Produce
2 Hobbs Ave, Como.
MannaWholefoods
South Terrace, South Fremantle.
Organic and conventional fruit and
vegies, with an excellent bulk section (both organic and conventional)
in dry and wet (oil, tamari, juice concentrates etc). Excellent grocery
and dairy section, with a small amount of frozen meat.
Mt Lawley Wholefoods
Inglewood.
Fruit, vegetables, dairy, groceries and bulk.
Organic n Green Cafe and Shop
1/617 Wanneroo Road, Wanneroo WA 6065
Tel/Fax (08) 9405 9670
www.organicngreen.com.au
Organic on Charles
Charles Street, North Perth.
Fruit, Great range of vegetables, meat,
fridge, dry goods and groceries.
Peaches
Hampton Road, Sth Fremantle.
Consistently good (quality and price)
with organic fruit and vegetables from here. Also dairy and meat products.
EXCELLENT range, quality and price.
Soul Tree
Railway Parade, Glen Forrest – café and store.
Various Coles have excellent “Natural Health” sections
Notably: Fremantle and Booragoon. Cheap packed dry (grains, legumes
etc) and wet (oil, juice concentrates etc) – well worth checking
out.
Mondo Butcher
Beaufort Street, Inglewood.
A wide range of meats, and
because they are the wholesaler for interstate organic poultry (duck,
chicken), those too! This is the cheapest place to source organic chicken,
as they are the importers. SOMETIMES, you can get Organic, Nitrate
free ham and bacon. You can certainly get the Free Range (no, it’s
not organic) Linley Park Pork bacon and ham, only rarely the organic.
I source my Free Range Chicken feet for stock here.
IGA – Wembley
Cnr Cambridge and Jersey St.
This IGA shop is certified
Organic which means they are able to butcher a carcass bought direct
from the grower. This also means a cheaper price to you AND the meat
is sold fresh, not frozen, but this seems to be changing, and you’ve
got to keep your eye on it. They also sell frozen organic chickens and
ducks. You can also order bones here – Tom is the head butcher and
it’s
good to introduce yourself and find out what he’s got.
Boatshed Markets
Jarrad St, Cottesloe.
Wide range of organic meats and
bones.
Baramba Grass Fed Biodynamic (Demeter) Beef and Hogget
Sid and Edith
De Burgh: 1st and 3rd Saturdays at City Farm Organic farmers market.
Meat is sold frozen, but you could order a whole or half carcass and
arrange to get it fresh. Also at the East Fremantle Sunday markets.
www.baramba.com.au
Williams River Produce
William and Kelly Wordsworth Smith – Grass
Fed Bio Dynamic (Demeter) beef and sheep. Contact direct.
www.williamsriverproduce.com.au
Spencers Brook – Pork, Sheep and Beef
Berskshire Pigs, Dexter Cattle and Long Horned Wiltshire Sheep. Nitrate
and Preservative free Bacon, Ham and Sausages. Gluten Free.
A lot of markets are currently cropping up in Perth, and not all deliver
quite what they set out to. ‘Organic and local’ are very trendy
words often used to describe them, but when one turns up, there is
very little that is organic or local. My advice is to check them
out, and always ask where something is from, and if quoted as organic
or bio-dynamic, ask to see the certification.
City Farm: Organic Farmers Market
Lime St, off Royal St East Perth.
8 – 12am Saturdays.
Certified organic produce, mostly, but not all, farmer direct – fruit,
vegetables, eggs, some dairy and meat. Not all farmers are there every
week, so check when your favourite will be! Mine is Bee Winfield from
Merri Bee Farm in Nannup, with her eggs and bacon. Bee is only there
every fortnight, and moving this to once a month.
Merri
Bee Organic Farm (61) 08 9756 1408
Corner of Henderson St & Sth Terrace, Fremantle.
Friday 9am – 9pm
Saturday 9am – 5pm.
Monday and Public Holidays
10am – 5pm.
Mt Claremont Farmers' Market
Mt Claremont Primary School, 103 Alfred
Rd
(cnr Montgomery Ave), Mt Claremont.
Every Saturday 8.30am – 12.30pm.
Including both farmer direct (organic and conventional) with some brought
in from the markets at Canning Vale. Spencers Brook (Pork,
Beef, Sheep) sell at this market.
East Fremantle Markets
At the FERN site, Corner High Road
and Montreal Street, Fremantle.
Each Sunday 7.30am – 12.30pm.
I consistently hear good reports about this market. This is an excellent
market, including both farmer direct (organic and conventional) with
some brought in from the markets at Canning Vale. Spencers
Brook (Pork,
Beef, Sheep) and Baramba (Beef and Hogget) sell at this market.
Kalamunda Farmers Market
Central Mall, Kalamunda
Every Sunday 8am – 1pm
Field of Greens
On the Green, Aranmore Catholic College
41 Franklin Street, Leederville
Sundays 8am – 12pm Rain or Shine
Advertised as Organic and Local, Fresh Fare market, there was very little
fresh when I visited, and very little organic. Red Tail Ridge (organic
beef) were there and Freshline Organics. It is very new, and thus
I would expect, developing.
Collie St, Albany
Every Saturday
8am – 12pm
Boyanup Memorial Park Grounds,
South Western Hwy, Boyanup
Fourth Sunday 8am – 12pm
Courthouse Markets
Cnr Hamersley and Frederick streets, Broome
Saturday
8am – 12pm
Gascoyne Growers Markets
Carnarvon Civic Centre, Camel Ln, Carnarvon
Every Saturday: May to October
8am – 12pm
Katanning Farmers Market
Katanning Show Grounds
Third Saturday 9am – 12.30pm
Manjimup Farmers' Market
The Shed, Rose St, Manjimup
Third Saturday 8am – 12pm
Margaret River Farmers' Market
Community Centre (Old Hospital Site),
Tunbridge St, Margaret River
Second Sunday
9am – 1pm
A CSA runs with the customer providing money up front, so the farmer has
financial security to plant and maintain his/her crop. Mimsbrook runs
by asking for a $300.00 up front, which you then use to “buy” your
vegies... the cost is deducted, when you run out, you top it up. It’s
an excellent scheme, for both the customer and farmer. Carmel Bainbridge
(Mimsbrook Farm) also has a shop – 65c Etwell Street, East Victoria
Park.
Mimsbrook Farm is one of our (very) few CSA’s.
+61 8 9497 1412.
www.biodynamic-food.com
Abhi's Bread
270 South Terrace, South Fremantle.
Large range of sourdoughs and grains.
New Norcia Bakeries
Scarborough Beach Road, Mt Hawthorn and Subiaco.
Organic and Conventional Sour Dough Breads.
Organic Sourdough Breadmaking Classes
Yoke Caddy: 0412 272 327.
Yallingup Wood Fired Bread
Absolutely Organic and Organic On Charles
get this one day a week – you will need to ring and check the day.
Just beware – the yummy Wave (white) is not sourdough, but is so very
good. I choose both the Wave and the Field (wholemeal sourdough).
Merri Bee Farm
Bee makes sour dough and yeasted and sells when she is
at the Organic Farmers Market at City Farm. She is up every second
week. See more under City Farm Organic Farmers Markets.
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