Fresh Produce

What is a Carbon Footprint?

A carbon footprint is the measure of the impact our activities have on the environment. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in out day to day activities through burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation and fuels.

The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has a base of units measured by kilograms of carbon dioxide.

How is Star Gardentown Café helping cut greenhouse gases by reducing its carbon footprint?

Easy, we are dedicated to sourcing our fresh produce locally, reducing the transport, sourcing our Wood fired sourdough from Pittsworth, and our lettuce is picked on South Street the morning it is delivered.

Would you eat at a café that buys its lettuce from the local green grocer, who buys it from Brisbane markets, who buys it off a wholesaler, who bought it two days ago off the same guy that picked it fresh for us??? No way! We get all our salad mixes and herbs fresh off the farm.

What about Tomatoes? Why follow the same route as above and have insanely inflated prices due to all the transport? Toowoomba is just above an area called the ‘salad bowl’. Gatton is one of Queensland’s best producers of fresh produce and we get our tomatoes straight from the farm, ripe enough they still have the stem attached!

Chalala Micro Bakery out at Pittsworth is an amazing little wood fired bakery which we chose to source our sourdough and muesli from. The sourdough is real, not one of those white breads shaped into a loaf. It is thick, bubbly and crusty on the outside, only characteristics that would come from a lovingly made starter dough and a hot stone oven. Chalala’s muesli is like no other! Picture the greatest granola you have ever had, add more ingredients and toast it in the wood fired baking oven. The taste, smell and look are enough to want to buy some to take home!

So why would you eat at any other Toowoomba Café?

Star Gardentown café is open for Breakfast and lunch 7 days a week. Drop in for great espresso based drinks and a menu that thrives on being as carbon neutral as possible…