Australian Ethical Food Group

23/01/2022

08/11/2021

In case you are curious 🧐 about what a wholesale sales floor looks like - welcome to our organic sales floor at Organic Growers Group (OGG) at the central Melbourne Markets in Epping! 🥕🥦 🫑 🍌 🍊

This is used for display and sales, with all packing and orders managed from our warehouse. We are very proud to have such a range of quality 100% certified fresh organic produce! 🙏💕🐝

08/11/2021

We always get excited when it’s Seville season!! 🍊🥳🎉

We have quite a few Seville orange trees on the farm, grown using organic in practice methods.

These oranges are then made into DELICIOUS marmalade at our Cooking School / Cafe Milly & Romeo's: Artisan Bakery and Cooking School and Ethical Food Store before being sold (both as Sevilles and as treaties) at Paddlewheel!!

Sevilles aren’t as common as they used to be - but they are incredibly important and so delicious in so many ways!! 🙏💕

Thank you Maria Stuart and Margery for rhe wonderful video! 🎥 and make sure you don’t miss out on a treaty as these are only available for a short time! 🍊

14/10/2021

We are SERIOUSLY honoured 🙏 and excited to be able to support the incredible work of the National Library 📚 in this way - so much of our cultural and agricultural heritage is revealed in these wonderful and precious books! 💕 We can’t wait to see them on Trove in coming years! 🎉

Thanks to the Australian Ethical Food Group (AEFG) it will soon be easier to delve into the history of Australian cooking.
The AEFG has pledged a generous gift to digitise the Library’s collection of Australian Cookery Books from the 1860s to 1960s. Filled with recipes, hints, advertisements, margin-notes and messages - these books connect us with the communities of the time, from the comfort of our own kitchens.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3FKFUD2

25/09/2021

Happy Sunday everyone! 😊💕🐝

We hope you are having a bee-autiful Sunday!

We are open 8 am - 4 pm today. Breakfast, lunch, take-away, coffee, cakes & local produce ❤️

23/09/2021

Looking forward to hosting two (safe!) Farmers Markets this weekend 😊🙏💕

Hi everyone

Our Bayside Farmers Market WILL run this Saturday from 8am-1pm at Trey Bit Reserve and our Heathmont Farmers Market will run this Sunday from 8am-1pm at Great Ryrie Primary School.
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⁣💥 Please note: we have very strong COVID-19 safety measures in place, and so your attendance at our Markets is conditional on compliance with these measures 💥

Specifically:

- Only ONE shopper per a household;

- Face masks must be worn at all times;

- Mandatory QR check in (or manual) on entry AND at every Stall;

- Clock-wise walk flow only;

- We are strictly monitoring density levels and will implement “one in/one out” when needed;

- Please maintain social distance (ie if a stall is busy please move on and come back another time when quieter);

- No sitting allowed (on chairs or on grass) - it is SHOP & GO!

- Please follow all directions from out Market Team!!

If you are unwell or if someone close to you is unwell - PLEASE STAY HOME!! 🙏

We understand that as much as some people will be pleased to be able to shop outside and get access to fresh produce and related food lines, others will be upset that we are trading or about the restrictions we are implementing.

Farmers Markets are a permitted essential service and are important for many people as well as for many small businesses. We are continually reviewing and improving all of our COVID-19 measures as we want our Markets to be as safe as possible for the community, for the stall holders and for our team.

Thank you for your ongoing support. Please take care and stay safe everyone🙏💕

21/09/2021

Introducing Ethical Food Store!!

The Ethical Food Store is our showcase of high quality ethical produce made and produced with love 💕!

Launched in December 2019, The Ethical Food Store is a cafe/restaurant/providore based in South Gippsland, Victoria and provides a relaxed and friendly environment to enjoy what our local region has to offer!

To learn more please follow us via the link above! 😊🙏

21/09/2021

Introducing Regional Farmers Markets!

Regional Farmers Markets launched in 1999 and we are now one of the oldest managers of farmers markets in Australia!

We currently run eight regular Markets a month - all based on our ethical food philosophy around supporting growers, artisan producers and community 🙏💕

To learn more and to find links to each Market page please follow the link above!

21/09/2021

Introducing Paddlewheel!!

Paddlewheel - Your Farmers Market Store launched in 2010 and embodies our desire to make high quality ethical fresh produce, dairy, cheese, eggs, artisan lines, treaties and much more available easily via our two retail stores - one located in the Prahran Market and the other at Koonwarra, South Gippsland Victoria.

We source our produce from growers and suppliers we know - so we are confident in our supply chain and that our values are shared by those we work with! 💕

To learn more please follow us via the link above! 😊🙏

21/09/2021

Introducing Australian Ethical Growers!!

AEG is Australia’s first Ethical Wholesaler 🎉🎉 and is a key part of our Group!

AEG sources and supplies high quality fresh fruit and vegetable produce from growers and producers across Australia who adhere to certified organic or regenerative agriculture or low spray or heritage and heirloom practices.

AEG wishes to encourage a broader approach to sustainable agriculture than the traditional division between certified organic versus industrial farming.

AEG launched in April 2020 (yep a great time to start a new business 😳😱😂) at the central Brisbane Markets at Rocklea.

To learn more please follow our page via the link above! 🙏

20/09/2021

We just had to share this video of some of our new born lambs being quietly guarded by our wonderful alpacas 🦙 Fred and Ginger!

These lambs are of a rare heritage breed - each one is just precious! 💕

We also deeply admire animals doing their work so diligently - Fred and Ginger have these babies well and truly covered! 💪🙏

Once lambing season is over and the lambs are old enough, some of our ewes and lambs will be going to families in our area who are keen to start their own flock of these beautiful sheep 🐑

20/09/2021

This report shows why rigorous transparency in our food supply chain is so critical - we all need to be able to trust our food. Whether it’s meat being meat (and the meat we are told it is!) or organic food being genuinely organic and much more - it is vital that we can all trust what we eat. Thank you Four Corners! 🙏🐝

Around the world a new type of crime is being carried out and it goes right to the heart of what we eat. Food fraud is a highly lucrative criminal enterprise that affects a huge range of products. Criminal syndicates are infiltrating the global food suply chain, undermining the ability of consumers....