CASTLEMAINE DIPS

IS COMMITTED TO SOURCING HIGH QUALITY LOCAL

 INGREDIENTS

We only use fresh, high quality

ingredients at Castlemaine Dips.

 

Our first choice is to source our ingredients from local growers and manufacturers.

For example, all our fresh Basil is grown in hothouses in Bendigo and all our neufchatel cheese is manufactured in Tatura, Victoria.

We use Australian grown chickpeas. Our first choice is to use Australian olive and sunflower oils in our dips.

Fresh vegetables are shipped up straight from the Melbourne Market and processed each week at our factory in Guildford.

Dairy fresh sour cream is delivered each week from Bulla in Melbourne. Aged parmesan from Melbourne and fetta cheese using non-animal rennet also come straight from the manufacturers.

We only use imported ingredients when no local substitute is available.

Castlemaine Dips is committed to using the best and the freshest ingredients we can find.

 

For more specific information about ingredients please contact us at info@castlemainedips.com

 

CASTLEMAINE DIPS AND

THE ENVIRONMENT

 

Castlemaine Dips is committed to reducing greenhouse gases and food waste.

Unlike many manufacturers we encourage our retail customers to order dips by the unit as they need them.

As a result we only manufacture product to order. This reduces waste in the production process and ensures our customers only receive fresh stock every time they order.

Retail customers are also encouraged to order weekly, guaranteeing  their customers fresh dips each week.

Stores rarely get stuck with product that runs out of date which results in less food being thrown out each week and ending up in landfill.

We also do not waste raw ingredients, plastic containers or electricity, manufacturing dips that cannot be sold.

We work with Sandhurst Recycling in Bendigo and are happy to say we are now able to recycle all of the plastic, steel and cardboard waste from our manufacturing processes.

All vegetable and kitchen scraps are composted for use on native plants. In good times the compost gets used on the garden. During the recent drought the compost pile was helping to keep the local wallaby and brush-tail possum populations alive. There was very little edible vegetation around in Central Victoria. Our wallabies and possums were frequent visitors to the compost heap and survived the drought feasting on pumpkin scraps and basil stalks.

We maintain a OzziClean waste water treatment plant which cleans all waste water which flows into a reed bed. Clean water from the reed bed is stored in our dam which at the moment is full of frogs, wood ducks, grey herons and yabbies.

Castlemaine Dips runs exclusively on filtered rainwater.