Our Farmers

Meet your local farmer, Les.

His farm is right on your doorstep. If you live in Westbrook then you’re sure to have driven passed his colourful patch of red and green cabbages right in the center of town.

Les has been growing and supplying his cabbages locally for over 10 years.

He’s been supplying The Farm Shop Toowoomba with his freshly harvested red and sugarloaf cabbages.

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Meet your local egg farmers, Jo, Tom and little Davey.

This lovely family is responsible for bringing your delicious sunny-side up eggs to your breakfast table. However you like them, you can rest assured that the NewEngland Free Range Eggs come from very happy hens who live a wonderful life sun-baking and foraging in the rolling green pastures of Tenterfield from dawn until dusk.

The hens have a maximum of 1200 ladies per hectare and are regularly rotated to maintain good soil health and regeneration.

The eggs are collected daily so they are fresh as fresh when they reach your hands. We collect the eggs each week from a midpoint, Stanthorpe, so we can guarantee minimal handling.

We love being able to directly support this wonderful business and family!

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Meet your local farmer, Vanessa.

Vanessa has been living on Tamborine Mountain for the past 56 years. Together with her husband Robert, they have been growing and selling Avocados since they first moved onto their 5 acre farm, 19 years ago.

Some of their Avocados have bumps and marks on them, this is due to the fact that they don’t use pesticides on either the Avocados or the Trees they grow on.

Vanessa says it’s the fresh mountain air and rich soil that gives the Avocados their great taste.

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Meet your local farmer, Mario.

Mario has been supplying his organically grown (not certified) apples, pears, stone fruit and apple juice to The Farm Shop Toowoomba since we opened our doors in 2018.

Mario is a 3rd generation farmer and still works the farm his grandparents began in Stanthorpe.

Like most Stanthorpe and surrounding farmers, Mario was affected severely by the drought and then was evacuated during the January 2020 fires. Luckily no damage was done but it impacted whatever water supplies he still had. That is the reason some of the apples this season have been quite small - but still super tasty!

We love being able to continue to directly support Mario.

Support your local farmer. Know your local farmer…. And keep your farmer close!