Where To Buy Organic Food In Perth
Buying organic and bio dynamic food is the easiest way for you to get more high quality nutrient dense food, with less pesticides. You also support sustainable and environmentally friendly and compatible farming systems.
No matter where you live, make a point of visiting and supporting these suppliers and outlets. It is the best way to boost your health and mental well being. High quality nutrition is the foundation to life.
Remember to look for the guarantee of certification. It is your right to ask for certification, of fresh fruit and vegetables. Genuine sellers will tell you where it is from and who has grown it.
RETAILERS
Dewsons (IGA) in Wembley
cnr Jersey and Cambridge St, and varying IGA stores.
Eggs, Dairy and a good range of dry and wet products. Well priced.
Dunn & Walton Absolutely Organic WA
8/257 Scarborough Beach Rd, Doubleview
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.
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.
Manna Wholefoods
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
Unit 3,885 Beaufort St, Inglewood
Fruit, vegetables, dairy, groceries and bulk.
Organic n Green Home Delivery
0416028292
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.
Good (quality and price) with organic fruit and vegetables from here. Also dairy and meat products. EXCELLENT range, quality and price.
Precious Organics
Unit 1, 500 Marmion Street, Booragoon
Soul Tree – Vegetarian Organic Store and Cafe
Shop 6, 3 – 5 Railway Parade Glen Forrest – café and store
9298 9997
Organic Collective – Shop and Home Delivery
Shop 1 Greenslade street (CNR Winterfold Rd) Hamilton Hill, Perth, W.A.
Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm. www.organiccollective.com.au
Various Coles, Woolworths and IGA have excellent Natural Health and such sections. Often very good brands can be sourced cheaper here.
Perth Organics – Home Delivery
www.perthorganics.com
ORGANIC AND BIO DYNAMIC MEATS
Mondo Butcher
Beaufort Street, Inglewood.
A wide range of organic and bio dynamic meats. Because they are and the wholesaler for interstate organic poultry (duck, chicken), those too! They are also the wholesaler for West Australian organic chicken, and I like that you can buy it fresh (not frozen) and cheaper here.
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.
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: Meat is sold frozen, but you could order a whole or half carcass and
arrange to get it fresh.
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
0421 925 048
www.spencersbrookfarm.com.au
Subiaco Farmers Market (see below) and from the website
Berskshire Pigs, Organic Dexter Cattle and Long Horned Wiltshire Sheep. Nitrate and
Preservative free Bacon, Ham and Sausages. Gluten Free.
Red Tail Ridge:
www.redtail-ridge.com
Beef, Lamb and Hogget. From the Website and from various markets
Blackwood Valley Beef:
Warren Pensini has been certified organic since 2008 and is passionate about the meat he produces. www.blackwoodvalleybeef.com.au/
FISH
An Introduction to Eating Sustainable Healthy Wild Caught Fish in WA
JEREMY Prince, scientist at the Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research at Murdoch University.
SEE ALSO: AUSTRALIAN MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY www.amcs.org.au
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD GUIDE ONLINE VERSION HERE:
www.amcs.org.au/Sustainable-Seafood-Guide-Australia.asp?active_page_id=699
BUY THE SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD GUIDE HERE:
www.amcs.org.au/Product.asp?CategoryID=5
MARKETS
A lot of markets are currently popping up in Perth, “Organic and local’ are very trendy words often used to describe them, but when you turn up, there is very little that is organic or local. Check them out, and always ask where something is from, and if quoted as organic or bio-dynamic, ask to see the certification.
Subiaco Farmers Market: Organic and Farm Produce
Subiaco Primary School, Bagot Road, Subiaco
8am – 12,30 pm.
This is a great farmers market, with a very good representation of certified organic produce, meat, dairy and eggs. Cackleberries Eggs that Robyn from Red Tail Ridge brings up with her (her neighbours)! Favourites include (all certified organic): Hammel Home Grown Vegetables, Over the Moon (milk and cheese), Red
Tail Ridge, Spencers Brook and many others.
City Farm: Organic Farmers Market
1 City Farm Place, off Royal St East Perth.
8 – 12am Saturdays.
Certified organic produce, mostly, but not all, farmer direct – fruit, vegetables, eggs, somedairy and meat. Not all farmers are there every week.
Manning Markets
At Clontarf College
295 Manning Rd, Waterford
7:30—12:30 Every Saturday
A range of organic and conventional produce. Great for a morning organic coffee and a wander with your dog.
Fremantle Markets
Corner of Henderson St & Sth Terrace, Fremantle.
The Yard: Friday 9am – 8pm, Saturday, Sunday and Monday Public holiday, 8am – 6pm
The Hall: Friday 8am – 8pm, Saturday, Sunday and Monday Public Holiday 8am – 6pm
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.
Western Farmers Market
Palmyra Primary School, 60 McKimmie St, Palmyra
8am – 12 pm
South Fremantle Markets
South Fremantle SHS
Lefroy Rd Beaconsfield
Organic and conventional produce, food and coffee.
Sunday, 8.00am to 12 noon
Contact 0411 886 614 (international callers use +61 411 886 614) 5
BREAD
Bodhis Bakery
Contact Bodhis for outlets
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).
REAL MILK
SEE ALSO:
www.editor.nourishedmagazine.com.au/articles/raw-milk-vs-pasteurized-milk
Contacts within Western Australia:
Mike and Barbara Shipley (08) 9847 4362
Cleopatras Bath Milk from Organic on Charles (see Retailers)
Enjoy supporting your body with chemical free LIVE foods.
If you are aware of other organic markets or outlets that have popped up please let us know.
Helen