Cultivate Food & Beverage is a Bedford-backed social enterprise producing high quality retail food products under the Emmaline's and Emma & Myrtle's brands, as well as offering contract food manufacturing services. Cultivate Food and Beverage is Bedford Group's first social enterprise venture servicing the state’s growing food and beverage sector. Bedford-backed Cultivate employs over 140 workers
at the Cultivate Bakery at Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills. Cultivate offers a full supply-chain solution, including procurement, contract food manufacturing, cold storage, logistics and packaging services. With a distribution network of national and independent retailers, including Coles, Woolworths and Drakes, Cultivate’s much-loved products, Emmaline’s and Emma & Myrtle’s reach more than 1,500 retail outlets in SA, Vic, NSW, WA and Qld. Cultivate has an open employment setting, and a social charter that commits to a minimum of 20% of its workforce represented by people with disability, or those experiencing other barriers to work. By purchasing Cultivate products you will be providing job opportunities in open employment to otherwise marginalised job seekers.
