About Lowe Farms
Lowe Farms is a long-standing vegetable producer established more than 40 years ago by the Lowe family. Operating out of Lyndhurst, and led by founders Peter and Rhonda Lowe, and their son Andrew, the farm produces high-quality leafy greens including baby spinach, mixed leaves and rocket — crops that are cut multiple times to maximise yield and efficiency.
With around 600 acres in Victoria, and an additional Bundaberg (QLD) operation, Lowe Farms supplies wholesale markets, servicing restaurants across Melbourne and Sydney, as well as fresh produce channels such as UMade Group for juice production.
The business is built on consistency, quality and strong growing practices — producing at full capacity with demand often exceeding supply.
The challenge
Producing delicate leafy greens at scale requires highly controlled soil performance and resilience across changing conditions.
Lowe Farms faces several ongoing challenges:
For multi-cut crops like spinach and rocket, maintaining soil quality is critical to sustaining yield across each harvest cycle.
The Valoriza solution
Lowe Farms incorporates Valoriza’s AS 4454-certified soil conditioner into its soil management program, stockpiling annual volumes to ensure consistent availability throughout the year.
As one of the early adopters of Valoriza’s product, Peter Lowe values its ongoing reliability, consistency and performance.
The soil conditioner is applied as part of crop preparation, where Lowe Farms grows a green crop and integrates the soil conditioner to improve the overall health and structure of the multiple acres of Lowe Farms.
Results for Lowe Farms
Valoriza’s soil conditioner delivers Lowe Farms with key operational benefits:
By maintaining soil in optimal condition, Lowe Farms can improve future yields while sustaining current production levels.
Benefits for soil health
Healthy soils are the foundation of productive, resilient farming system with intensive cropping schedules.
Valoriza soil conditioner supports Lowe Farms by:
Closing the loop
Food and garden organics collected from southeast Melbourne communities are processed by Valoriza and transformed into nutrient-rich soil conditioner.
That product is then used by vegetable producers like Lowe Farms to produce fresh, high-quality vegetables for Australian markets.
From community organics to leafy greens — closing the loop in a truly circular system.
Valoriza’s soil conditioner holds nutrients in the soil and improves our ground condition’s longevity to help us grow better crops year after year. We rely on the product’s quality, availability and consistency to support Lowe Farms operate efficiently and effectively at scale.
Benefits for Lowe Farms
By using a high-quality, recycled organic soil product, Lowe Farms is helping deliver:
Consumers benefit from fresh produce grown in healthier, biologically active soils.
Helping close the loop on organics
At a large food organics and garden organics (FOGO) recycling operation in Melbourne’s south-east, Valoriza is ‘closing the loop’ on the local area’s food and garden waste by creating a valued soil conditioner that’s locally in demand as a regenerative soil product.
Turning food waste into food nutrients
Commercial food waste generators and collectors across Melbourne face increasing pressure to divert organic waste from landfill, reduce contamination, and demonstrate genuine sustainability outcomes. Valoriza is proud to support our food waste customers alleviate these pressures by offering food waste recycling capabilities at our FOGO processing facility in Dandenong.
Contact Valoriza today to start your sustainability journey.
