Finding a local food maker is only half the discovery. The next question is how to buy from them. Some welcome an online order. Others work through stockists, delivery rounds or a conversation about an event. You could pass their address without seeing a shop.
Once you recognise those different ways of working, a less visible part of Maroondah’s food economy becomes available to you.
A product can lead you to the maker
Spice Fusion in Ringwood sells spice blends and dukkah online, alongside recipes that help explain how to use them. Here the starting point is the ingredient and what you might cook with it. You can explore the range without first finding a retail counter.
Uncle Mungo’s in Bayswater offers another route. Its chilli products and sauces have online, stockist and wholesale pathways. For a household purchase, the useful question is whether to order directly or find a stockist. For a business enquiry, the wholesale route serves a different purpose.
Sometimes the journey comes to you
Micky Booth’s Ringwood-based fruit-and-vegetable service turns the search around: you check whether it delivers to your home or workplace. That check comes before the produce order.
Coffee has its own supply network. Direct Coffee in Vermont sells online for homes and offices; V5COFFEE and Black Opal Coffee in Bayswater promote roasted beans and online ordering. Buying beans and finding somewhere to sit with a coffee are separate tasks, even when both begin with a local roaster’s name.
A gathering starts with a brief
Catering introduces another kind of first contact. Essential Catering + Events in Bayswater North and Guepa’s Kitchen Private Catering in Croydon appear in the approved food records. An enquiry needs the occasion, date and number of people so the business can say whether it can help.
Choose the buying route before making the trip: product order, stockist, delivery check or event enquiry. That small change lets you use businesses a walk along the shopping strip would miss. The examples below give you places to begin.
Three different ways to buy local
Spice Fusion Exotic Spice Blends & Dukkah
A home-based Ringwood maker selling spice blends and dukkah online. Its website also provides recipes: useful if the aim is to cook at home rather than choose a restaurant.
Uncle Mungo's
A Bayswater business with an online range of hot sauces and chilli products, plus stockist and wholesale routes. The practical first step is the product or stockist page, not an assumed shopfront visit.
Micky Booth Home Delivery
A Ringwood-based fruit-and-vegetable delivery business. Its website lets customers check delivery areas and order produce for home or work.
Run a local food business that is easy to miss from the street? Tell MX how customers find you and what you make: hello@themx.com.au.
Updated September 2026. Please check current details with the business.