Your people powered guide to accessing great fresh food and pantry staples

One of the things about wanting to make a change when it comes to the food we buy is finding quality sources without having to scour the internet for hours or get duped by greenwashing terms like ‘farm raised’ or ‘grown naturally’ which can often land the most well-intentioned among us, well and truly tricked!

My book, Low Tox Life: FOOD helps us focus on the three things that unite all eaters in striving for better health, a strong future for our planet and better treatment of animals and those are:

Addressing and dramatically reducing the reliance on ultra-processed foods, which make up 60% of the average shopping trolley here, in the UK and the US.
Eliminating waste – getting savvier in the kitchen, making the most of everything we buy instead of wasting 1 in 5 shopping bags worth, and starting that compost or worm farm you’ve been meaning to start for years now!
Upgrading our sources of food to be from regenerative farming methods, rather than extractive ones.

This post has you covered on your quest to connect with regenerative producers and suppliers. Thank you to everyone for letting us know where you shop to get great quality fruit, veg, meat, fish and pantry staples. I hope you find it useful, and if there’s someone you don’t see on the list here that you know for a fact is farming for biodiversity, soil health and carbon sequestration, then give them a shout-out in the comments, and we’ll update the post over time to include them all.

We need to create a bigger and bigger market for farmers to transition to these methods and if all you can do is switch up a couple of things for now, then let that be enough and make that important change.

Alexx x

Fruits, vegetables, and other fresh produce – Spray free and/or organic/biodynamic

NSW

Zestiny Farms, Central Coast (50% off first subscription box with LOWTOXLIFE code)

Lettuce Deliver Organics

Rita’s Farm

The Organic Scarecrow

Ooooby – Sydney and surrounds

Nom Bulk Foods

Out of the Box

Turra Murra Fresh Produce

Pete’s Organic Market

Warrah Biodynamic Farm

Farmers Pick – NSW, VIC, ACT + south-east QLD (non-organic and organic options) check your area!

Local CSA networks across the USA

Ethical, grass-fed, pasture-raised meat

Remember sometimes butchers/meat purveyors will stock a few things that aren’t ideal. For beef/lamb you want grass fed/pasture raised – organic can sometimes mean the animals are not fed their natural grass diet and fed organic grains, so “organic” isn’t always ideal for beef/lamb.

For chicken/pork organic or biodynamic or really knowing your farmer is important, as these animals can be supplemented grain mixes containing genetically modified corn and soy.

Always best to gently ask until you decide on your firm-favourite suppliers.

NSW

Cleaver and Co Quality Meats

The Free Range Butcher

The Conscious Farmer

Vincentia Craft Butchery

Taravale Flour & Lamb

The Butcher and The Chef

The Food Farm

Bathurst Wholefood Cooperative

Bourke Street Butchery

Brooklet Springs Farm

Kingsmore Meats

Value Life Farm

Wagga Free Range Pork

Country Meats Direct

Our Cow

QLD

Belvedere Farm (Brisbane to Sunshine Coast deliveries of pasture raised pork/eggs + grass fed beef)

Kialla Organic Beef

The Good Farm Shop

Sherwood Rd Organic Meats

Quality Pasturefed Beef

The Woolly Sheep

Sunshine Coast Organic Meat

Bauers Butchery

TMP Organics Butcher Supermarket

Echo Valley Farm

Gleneden Family Farm

Our Cow

Maleny Black Angus Beef

High Brit Beef

Aus Organic Meat Co – Capalaba

St Margaret’s Creek

Boutique Meats Kitchen

The Paddock Butchery – Darling Downs

Andrews Indooroopilly

VIC

Cherry Tree Organics

Jonai Farms – CSA Pig/Cow share Regen/Organic

WA

Paddock and Farm Butchery

Reids Meats & Delicatessen

Dirty Clean Food

The Organic Fine Food Company

New Zealand

Commonsense Organics

The Organic Food Shop

UK

Pipers Farm

Kimbers’ Farms and Farm Shop

Nolan’s of Clontarf

Darts Farm

USA

Markegard Family Farm, CA

Sustainable wild-caught fish sources

Remember – often you still have to ask if it’s wild caught, local, and be wary of marinara mixes which often contain a blend of overseas and local fish/seafood – better to make your own!