Grower / producer

A salad a day is part of our family tradition. There is something wonderful about sharing food together over the family table. Salad is a healthy and nutritious part of every meal in our house. We love finding new and exciting ways to enjoy the food we’ve grown for our family and our customers.

The Tripod Farmers Story 

We are a proud family business of third generation farmers producing high quality, fresh lettuce varieties for major and independent supermarkets and wholesale grocers.

With farms across both Western Melbourne and Gippsland regions of Victoria, we are one of the largest growers of loose-leaf lettuce varieties in Australia.  Initially starting in 1989 with just 15 acres, we now harvest and process 800 acres of lettuce.

We love lettuce

We and have searched the world for unique varieties to keep our customers interested and LOVING salad as much as we do. Our 'leafy salad' varieties now include fancy lettuce, wild rocket, baby spinach, baby cos, mache, watercress, mixed salad leaves and our gourmet variety wasabi salad.  We also produce full head varieties for cos lettuce, cos hearts and radicchio.

With state of the art processing and packaging technology, we can guarantee fresh salad leaves on the shelves within 24 hours of harvest, all year round. Our customers love the convenience of our pre-packed and pre-washed lettuce, making mealtime easy for them and their families.

Tripod Farmers is known in the salad industry with our brands Bacchus Marsh Fresh Produce, Wash n’ Toss, Cos it’s Yummy and Supa Salads.

We love salad and we love what we do.

From the growers and staff of Tripod Farmers.