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The Digger's Club is a climate positive company

• We drive fuel efficient cars and neutralise their emissions by joining Green Fleet.

• We only buy green, renewable energy

• We garden organically, burying CO², and supply our café with food, grown from our heirloom seeds.

• We grow and sell hundreds of thousands of plants that sequester CO²

• We have cut our water bills by 60%

• We use F.S.C. paper

FSC Certified Paper

The FSC is an international, non-profit organisation which was set up to ensure sustainable forest management. It prevents clear felling of old growth forests, protects watersheds and ensures replanting of harvested of trees.Its guarantee is its chain of custody to ensure all wood products are harvested sustainably. Ask for FSC products

Plastic wrap-Biowrap

Many members call us to ask why we continue mailing our catalogues to you wrapped in plastic. Don’t worry! after years of searching, we have found Biowrap, a totally degradable plastic that gradually disintegrates. There is no known eco-toxicity to the soil, or to ultra-sensitive organisms as it breaks down. We are delighted to have found this, and hope you are too.

The Club for subversive gardeners

What's in a name? Digger's was born on July 1978 in an old tin shed! Our purpose was to rescue the wonderful old varieties of vegetables, such as Scarlet Runner Beans, that mainstream companies were dropping from their lists.

Due to the buying power of Coles and Woolworths, the only way to reach the keenest gardeners was to set up mail order distribution, bypassing retail shops. Over the past 29 years, a hardware collossus, such as Bunnings, have gained dominance and now control the garden market, just as Coles and Woolworths control the fruit and vegetable market. Food now comes from supermarkets rather than our backyards. Multinational chemical companies, like Monsanto, can now introduce chemicals into our food supply (ie: G.M. seeds), which threatens our health and the existence of our best plant varieties.

So to preserve our best plants and garden traditions, Digger's has to become a club for subversive gardeners. We are anti-G.M. and anti-machine agriculture, as we campaign to retain the growing of food in our backyards.

When The Digger's Club commenced, one of our first club members was a 92-year-old "RSL Digger", more attached to a rifle than a shovel.

The first Australian reference to Diggers came in 1853 during the goldrush. United in rebellion the Diggers rose up when forced to pay unfair taxes. This sparked the Eureka Stockade, so to be called a Digger was to describe a subversive mate who shared the common cause.
Most Diggers at the mines wore blue shirts; creating the origin of the words 'blue collar worker', but it was the word Digger, with its powerful connection to resistance and loyalty, that carried through to our World War One soldiers.

'Diggers movement' is returning to its original meaning protesting against a world dominated by multi-national food corporations such as Monsanto or the all powerful supermarket chains like Coles and Woolworths, as we fight to secure pure uncontaminated healthy food.

Growing our own uncontaminated food is not a new concern, but one that goes back to the 17th century Diggers in England. The original Diggers inspired by their founder Gerrard Winstanley, seized public land with the aim of growing food to give away to the poor. Their crime was simply planting vegetables on common land but it was met with a force of troops at the request of land owners. Their anarchic protest movement spawned a memorable ballad:

You noble Diggers all, stand up now
You noble Diggers all, stand up now
We come in peace they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common
And to make the waste land grow
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feeds the rich
While poor men starve
The earth was made a common treasury
For everyone to share
You noble Diggers, all stand up now. (abbreviated)

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