Your guide on where to access fresh, healthy produce

MYRTLEFORD • BRIGHT • MOUNT BEAUTY To discover more fresh food producers in North East , visit the Mountains to Murray Local Produce Guide website: localproduceguide.com.au

2 Alpine Health Alpine Shire Fresh Food Guide

Each time we purchase food locally, we interact as a community - strengthening our social connections, improving our health and supporting a sustainable local food system.

Food consumption and food access practices are embedded in everyday life and social relationships.

This Food Access Guide is developed in partnership with Health Service as part of the 2020 Local Food for Local People project. It aims to support a vibrant regional food system, where local people have access to fresh and healthy local food, profits stay in our local communities and community connections are nurtured.

Food consumption and food access practices are embedded in everyday life and social relationships.

Alpine communities offer many different stores selling fresh groceries, and the wider area abounds with local farms and producers of fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, honey, olives and olive oil.

This guide also shares information about where to find local food relief as Covid-19 has both made it difficult for many people in our communities to make ends meet and disrupted social relationships. Food relief options include basic supplies, fresh produce, healthy ready-made meals & vouchers.

We have aimed to include food retail outlets, markets, producers, community gardens & food shares as well as emergency food relief offerings in this guide. If we have missed you or a food or community offering that should be included, please let us know so we can update this booklet!

Alpine Health 0439 380 490 [email protected] www.alpinehealth.org.au

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 3 Retail Stores The following local retail stores sell fresh produce such as fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, cheese, nuts and honey.

*There may be variations in trading hours due to COVID-19 and some outlets have introduced online and home delivery services - call or check websites to confirm current details.

Arnolds Online Fresh fruit & vegetables

02 6024 5211 www.arnoldsonline.com.au Online Orders & Delivery • Online orders • Delivery Tuesday and Thursday - , and Bright

Bright Food Co-op Selection of seasonal fruit and vegetables, honey, eggs and nuts from local producers; plus a selection of bulk dry goods

4 Ireland Street, Bright 03 5755 1489 [email protected] facebook.com/BrightFoodCo

4 Alpine Health Bright Organics Online and phone orders Contact via website or phone for home delivery

6879 , Porepunkah 03 5750 1199 [email protected] www.brightorganics.com.au

Coles, Myrtleford Dederang General Store Online orders. Click and Collect only Small selection of basic grocery items, plus homemade slices, cakes etc 37 Clyde Street, Myrtleford 03 5752 1111 4561 Valley Highway, www.shop.coles.com.au Dederang 02 6028 9555

Dales Butchery, Myrtleford Phone orders and home delivery available FoodWorks, Myrtleford A range of local produce including honey, 89 Standish Street, Myrtleford eggs, nuts, fruit and vegetables 03 5752 1526 91 Myrtle Street, Myrtleford 03 5752 1575 www.myrtleford.myfoodworks.com.au Online Orders & Delivery • Online order by 10.00am for same day delivery • Phone order by 1.00pm for same day delivery • Deliver Mon - Fri - $10 Pick & Pack fee • Free delivery Myrtleford area • Click and Collect from drive through bottle shop

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 5 Foodworks, Mount Beauty IGA, Bright A range of local produce including honey, A range of local produce including honey, eggs, nuts, fruit and vegetables eggs, nuts, fruit and vegetables

4/16A-18A Kiewa Crescent, 16 Ireland Street, Bright Mount Beauty 03 5755 1666 03 5754 1400 [email protected] mountbeauty.myfoodworks.com.au Monday - Sunday 8.00am-8.00pm Locally Available: Email Orders & Home Delivery • Monday to Friday, online orders • Bright - $5.00 ($4.00 Seniors) preferable, or phone by 1.00pm. • Buckland Valley - $8.00 • Same day free delivery Mount Beauty, Tawonga and . • - $8.00 • Harrietville - $10.00 • $10.00 Pick & Pack fee. • Smoko & Freeburgh - $8.00

Harrietville Bakery Nourish Wholefoods, Tawonga Bakery goods plus milk, eggs, jam & honey South Organic wholefoods groceries 219 Great Alpine Road, Harrietville 0421 063 066 167 , Tawonga South Monday 8.00am - 3.00pm Tues - Wed Closed 0427 726 228 Thurs - Fri 8.00am - 3.00pm Tuesday 2.00pm - 6.00pm Sat - Sun 8.00am - 2.00pm Friday 2.00pm - 6.00pm facebook.com/harrietvillebakery Saturday 10.00am - 1.00pm www.nourishwholefoods.org Locally available: • Order online, home delivery or collect from store (during business hours) 6 Alpine Health Punkah Pantry, Porepunkah Local berries, honey, olives, juice, preserves etc

3 Nicholson Street, Porepunkah 0411 705 992 [email protected] www.punkahpantry.com.au

Ricardi’s Alpine Gourmet Meat, Bright Meat, fish and smallgoods, as well as locally-produced eggs

2 Barnard Street, Bright 03 5755 1175 facebook.com/ ricardisalpinegourmetmeats

Tawonga Baker, Tawonga South Slow-leavened, organic sourdough bread, plus a small range of croissants & pastries

225 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South 0415 296 626 [email protected] www.tawongabaker.com.au

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 7 Tawonga South Butchery Phone orders and home delivery available

1/211 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South 03 5754 1888

Vegitation, Mount Beauty Wholesale and Retail supply and home delivery of fresh fruit & vegetables

4 Mill Road, Mount Beauty 03 5754 4226 [email protected] www.vegitation.com.au Locally available: • Mon & Thurs - Bright and Surrounds • Tues & Fri - Harrietville, Hotham and Dinner Plain

Woolworths, Bright Online orders, Click and collect from designated parking bays. Fee for home delivery (Bright area only)

87 - 91 Gavan Street, Bright 03 5732 3900 Mon - Sun 7.00am - 10.00pm www.woolworths.com.au

Waitey’s Butchery, Myrtleford Phone orders and home delivery available

59B Clyde Street, Myrtleford 03 5752 1329

8 Alpine Health Local Farms & Producers

The following list includes primary producers who have fresh produce available for sale in the Alpine Shire, either at the farm gate, from retail outlets or via home delivery.

Alpine Blueberries, Myrtleford Buffalo Berry Farm, Eurobin Four chestnut varieties, walnuts, pecans Berries, apples, figs, nuts

221 Myrtle Street, Myrtleford 6300 Great Alpine Road, Eurobin 0404 666 055 0404 655 315 facebook.com/alpineblueberries [email protected] www.facebook.com/Buffalo-berry- farm-2305121679814864 Australian Pumpkin Seed Company, Ovens Locally available: Pumpkin seeds, nut & seed meal & • Farm gate sales flours, oils.

5061 Great Alpine Road, Ovens Buffalo Blueberries, 03 5752 1199 Over 12 varieties of blueberries [email protected] 0421 756 215 facebook.com/PumpkinSeedsAustralia [email protected] www.pumpkinseed.net.au Locally available: • Farm gate sales Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 9 Boundary Creek Garlic, Upper Gapsted Walnut & Olive Grove, Gapsted Specialising in production of garlic & Seasonal nut varieties and olive oil, as beef cattle well as preserved farm gate produce and pure olive oil soap Larkin Lane, 0419 413977 36 Lower River Rd, Gapsted [email protected] 0407 685 554 facebook.com/boundarycreekgarlic [email protected] Locally available: Locally available: • Farm gate sales (Jan - Apr, Sat & Sun) • Far gate sales • Delivery available - order via phone or email CossiBlues, Gapsted • Myrtleford Farmers Market (Dec - May) ‘Pick your own’ blueberries 106 Lower River Rd, Gapsted VIC 0418 352 484 [email protected] Locally available: • Farm gate sales (during the season)

Craig Pace Apiaries, Wandiligong A family run, environmentally friendly business. All honey is cold extracted and products are seen from the bees to all the way to the customer. Bee-keeping supplies are also available via our website.

0412 935 605 [email protected] www.craigpaceapiaries.com.au

10 Alpine Health Green Barrow Farm, Bright Locally grown, chemical free, seasonal vegetables

0427 932 559 [email protected] Locally available: • Monday - Bright Brewery • Thursday - Bright Food Coop • Other days - Phone for purchase options

Happy Beef, Happy Valley Free range beef, truffles

0411 890 925 [email protected]

Jade Quality, Kiwi fruit

406 Whorouly-Bowmans Road, Whorouly 0427 271 207 [email protected] Locally available: • Farm gate sales (April - August)

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 11 Mountain Fresh Trout & Salmon Paddys Poultry Produce, Farm, Harrietville Mudgegonga Fresh and smoked trout and salmon Pasture raised farm fresh eggs

03 5759 2558 12 Myrtleford Stanley Road, [email protected] Mudgegonga mountainfreshtroutharrietville.com 0400 307 672 facebook.com/paddyspoultryproduce Locally available: Nightingale Bros, Stanley & Wandiligong • Phone orders Top quality fruit with minimal chemical • Home delivery inputs, including apples, persimmons, • CC’s Quality Meats () nuts, juices and cider • Dales Butchery (Myrtleford)

708 Morses Creek Road, Wandiligong • Bright Co-op 03 5755 1318 [email protected] Rogers Lane, Dederang www.nightingalebros.com.au Free-range grass fed beef, plus lamb Locally available: coming soon • Farm gate sales 0416 156 755 [email protected] Nuts About Wood, Eurobin www.rogerslane.net Four chestnut varieties, walnuts, pecans Locally available: • Online orders 6164 Great Alpine Road, Eurobin • Home delivery 0401 446 054 Locally available: • Visit by appointment - please phone

12 Alpine Health Snow View Berries, Myrtleford Torcaso Produce, Myrtleford Snow View Berries deliver top quality Seasonal vegetables fresh and frozen fruit at an affordable 0409 350 398 price with friendly service [email protected] 71 Toniazzo Lane, Myrtleford 0422 090 093 [email protected] Valley Nut Groves, Gapsted Walnuts, walnut oil facebook.com/SnowViewBerries Locally available: 228 Schlapp Road, Gapsted • Farm gate sales 0428 537 700 [email protected] www.valleynutgroves.com.au Snowy Creek Produce, Freeburgh Locally available: Season fruits and vegetables • Farm gate sales 4 Caloutas Lane, Freeburgh 0419 569 132 [email protected] Locally available: • Farm gate sales (December - June)

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 13 Ready-Made Meals Some food businesses in the Alpine Shire offer healthy, heat-at-home meals made with fresh ingredients.

Availability is subject to change so please check with individual outlets or check the following website/s for current options.

Local Traders of Bright A place for restaurants, cafes and other Bright & Surrounds hospitality & retail traders to connect with the community and visitors to our region

facebook.com/localtradersofbright

About Myrtleford A place to post news about Myrtleford, people, events and notices

facebook.com/AboutMyrtleford

What’s Happening in the Upper Kiewa Valley Join the Facebook group

facebook.com/groups/278742485495684

14 Alpine Health Produce & Farmers Markets

Mount Beauty Community Market First Saturday of each month

Corner of Hollonds Street and Kiewa Crescent, Mount Beauty 0419 289 672 9.00am - 1.00pm

Make It, Bake It, Grow It Market, Bright Third Saturday of each month

Howitt Park, Bright 0402 890 940 9.00am - 1.00pm

Myrtleford Farmers Market Fourth Saturday of each month

The Piazza, in the heart of Myrtleford 0497 944 626 8.00am - 12.30pm

Myrtleford Undercover Market Saturdays - weekly or monthly, dependant on seasons

150 Myrtle Street, Myrtleford 0427 272 777 [email protected] 9.00am - 1.30pm

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 15 Community Garden & Food Swaps

Myrtleford Community Garden Community Garden

facebook.com/ MyrtlefordCommunityGarden

Bright Community Garden Community Garden

facebook.com/groups/ Brightcommunitygarden/

Bright Wandi Food Swap Food Swap

facebook.com/ groups/546041218915857

Mount Beauty Neighbourhood Centre Food Swap 03 5754 1166 [email protected] facebook.com/MTBNCI

16 Alpine Health Emergency Food Relief

Food relief, including food (basics & fresh food), food vouchers and pre-prepared meals, are available to anyone in our Alpine communities in times of need - this may be those in financial difficulty, families or individuals experiencing grief, loss, trauma or illness and those experiencing crisis.

Services are coordinated from multiple agencies and locations across the Alpine Shire.

St Vincent De Paul Dumu Cafe’s ‘Love Bites’ Myrtleford Bright

0400 058 304 4 Ireland St, Bright VIC 3741 Call to make arrangements to receive 03 5755 1489 non-perishable food items, available to all Offering pre-prepared frozen meals and a community members. free food/share table (downstairs).

Neighbourhood Centre Emergency Relief/Anglicare Myrtleford Victoria Mount Beauty 156 Myrtle St, Myrtleford VIC 3737 03 5752 2775 0458 550 450 Call for enquiries or pop into the centre Call the volunteer number. for fresh produce, non-perishables and pre-prepared frozen meals.

Anglicare Victoria & St Vincent De Paul Bright

03 5755 0123 Call Jenny Svarc, Alpine Health to arrange a phone interview & collection.

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 17 Free Food & Food Share Tables

Dumu Balcony Cafe (Downstairs) Food is Free Bright Tawonga South

4 Ireland Street, Bright VIC 3741 167 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South Punkah Pub Porepunkah Dederang General Store Dederang 13 Nicholson Street, Porepunkah 4561 Kiewa Valley Highway (This is a ‘free plant table’ only, no food) Myrtleford Neighbourhood Centre Myrtleford

156 Myrtle Street, Myrtleford

18 Alpine Health To discover more fresh food producers in North East Victoria, visit the Mountains to Murray Local Produce Guide website: localproduceguide.com.au

Fresh Food Guide: Alpine Shire 19 0439 380 490 30 O’Donnell Avenue, Myrtleford VIC 3737 [email protected] www.alpinehealth.org.au