Greengrocers in Springdale Heights, NSW

Finding a greengrocer in Springdale Heights

Seasonal fruit and vegetables, bulk orders and the cut lines that cafes and caterers run through. Stock follows the season, not the shopfront: stone fruit, berries and chestnuts come out of the Ovens and Goulburn valleys in summer and autumn, and by late winter most of it is trucked up from the Melbourne Market at Epping. Victorian shops register with their council under the Food Act 1984, and New South Wales shops notify their details under the Food Act 2003. Worth asking which growers a shop buys direct from, because that is where the price gap shows.

Springdale Heights is a compact residential pocket on the northern edge of Lavington, built out largely in the seventies and eighties around its primary school. There is no retail centre of its own, so the Lavington shops and the Hume Highway service strip do that job a few minutes south. Housing of that vintage keeps local trades busy with tiling, kitchen and bathroom updates, fencing and hot water replacement.

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