About Us

Eden Farms History

Eden Farms was estab­lished in 1983 at High­fields, Queens­land. Ini­tially a cut flower oper­a­tion using the emerg­ing tech­nol­ogy we now know as ‘hydroponics’.

This excit­ing new tech­nol­ogy offered ben­e­fits in veg­etable pro­duc­tion. Eden Farms imported the first Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­ber seeds from Hol­land in 1984. After Green­house tri­als the pro­duce was mar­keted in Queens­land through the Bris­bane Rock­lea Markets.

Eden Farms were the first sup­pli­ers of Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­ber on the East­ern coast of Australia.

The Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­ber was an enor­mous suc­cess with Queens­land house holds so we con­tin­ued to intro­duce more plants to our oper­a­tion until we out­grew the High­fields loca­tion and moved to our Hamp­ton location.

Want­ing to fur­ther expand our grow­ing area to sup­ply good qual­ity Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­bers year round Eden Farms estab­lished an addi­tional hor­ti­cul­ture oper­a­tion at Moore Park Bund­aberg in 1990.

To meet the steady demand for our Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­bers, we fur­ther expanded our oper­a­tion to two more loca­tions in Bund­aberg. In 2007 we launched our Dahls Road oper­a­tions and again in 2009 our Fal­lons Rocks Road operation.

Our pro­duc­ing farm area spans approx­i­mately 12 hectare of green­houses at the three loca­tions in Bundaberg.

Eden Farms have been mar­ket lead­ers in excess of two decades and dom­i­nates the mar­ket place in the sup­ply of Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­bers through pro­duc­tion inno­va­tion and efficiency.

Eden Farms were pio­neers in:

  • Indi­vid­ual fruit labeling
  • Indi­vid­ual piece shrink wrap­ping of fruit
  • Bench­mark­ing floor area production
  • Import­ing con­sul­tant advice and tech­nolo­gies to increase pro­duc­tion per m2 floor area.

Eden Farms is proud to be a pio­neer Fresh Food direct sup­plier to major food retail­ers since 1985 mak­ing the com­pany one of the longest stand­ing direct sup­pli­ers of any fruit and veg­etable prod­uct in Aus­tralia. The farm also proudly serves directly into major food out­lets such as Mrs Crock­ets Kitchen, McDon­alds and the like.

Eden Farms have searched the world for indus­try best prac­tises in Con­ti­nen­tal Cucum­ber pro­duc­tion. We have a desire to pro­duce tastier cucum­bers for the salad lovers of Aus­tralia. At every stage Eden Farms adheres to strict qual­ity stan­dards and have an atti­tude of excellence.

Eden Farms are HACCP & Wool­worths Ven­dor Qual­ity Man­age­ment certified.

Business Activity

Cur­rently the busi­ness is focused on grow­ing and mar­ket­ing of hydro­ponic fruit and veg­etable crops in par­tic­u­larly con­ti­nen­tal cucum­bers. Eden Farms is not a mono­cul­ture facil­ity lim­ited to one crop and has had suc­cess­ful expe­ri­ence in effi­ciently pro­duc­ing cut flow­ers, hydro­ponic toma­toes, hydro­ponic cap­sicums, cukes and Lebanese cucumbers.

Eden Farms is sen­si­tive to the needs of the mar­ket and the crop grown is mar­ket dri­ven hence the spe­cial­iza­tion of the pro­duc­tion of con­ti­nen­tal cucum­bers for an extended period of time. The Eden Farms pro­duc­tion model is designed to pro­vide con­sis­tent sup­ply of high qual­ity prod­uct all year round into the mar­ket place.

Eden Farms also has a sub­sidiary activ­ity of grow­ing and bal­ing of rhodes grass hay. This activ­ity uti­lizes sur­plus tail­ing water from the green­houses and pro­vides fur­ther land uti­liza­tion and addi­tional income for the pro­duc­tion units.