Red Gem Growers & Packers
Food in Cardinia

Our program aims to teach children the importance of eating fresh potatoes and encouraging families to cook them at home with their take home pack. Red Gem Growers Packers have been growing and supplying quality potatoes and onions to the retail and wholesale trade for more than 50 years. As an SF 200 and WA certified supplier, our business maintains the uppermost standards. We actively audit each of our growers, suppliers and procedures to ensure ongoing adherence to our certifications. This total process ensures quality and security in the supply chain from paddock to plate for the new provide we supply our valued customers around Australia. Red Gem Packs for many outlets as their own brand or below our own premium line, Farmer’s Choice. Washed or brushed, sized, graded, and stuffed in cartons, crates or Ore packs to each customer’s unique requirements. Our organization has a passion for the products that it sells a reputation for innovation. You can be assured that our products stand up to our reputation quality standard, with the thanks to the commitment of our dedicated farms, growers, staff. Red Gem Growers Packers has supported many charities and organizations over the years. Environmentally aware consumers can now find comfort in the fact that the potato is one of horticulture’s most sustainable crops, succeeding fresh research findings from the United Kingdom’s Cranfield University. It looks like rice is out and spuds are in. We use them for pickup from the farms, delivering into distribution centers and markets. We hope that by busy together we are promoting health and healthy being, healthy eating, also helping them to hoist much required funds that will earnings their club, organization or charity through their fundraisers. It looks like rice is out and spuds are in, with findings indicating that basmati rice production uses around 100 times more water to produce than British grown potatoes, said Ausveg spokesperson, Felicity Powell. Producing basmati rice consumes more blue water’ than potatoes, which refers to water withdrawn from surface and ground resources and not returned in the brief term, said Ms Powell. Italian pasta has around three times the potential impact on water use, compared with British grown potatoes on a new weight basis. The potato has also been found to be more nutritious than its carbohydrate competitors, proving a huge source of potassium. The UK potato industry is busy to communicate the benefits of potatoes to its government and consumers, to ensure that the modest spud is kept on families’ dinner plates correct across the British Isles, said Ms Powell.