Shopping at a farmers market
With an abundance of produce from organic vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy, honey, preserves and baked goods – a farmers market has all the local food you need to fill your shopping basket each week. To distinguish a farmers markets from other community markets, is that you will meet here your local farmer or maker who grows, produces or makes the food instead of reselling products. This enables a genuine connection between those who make or grow local food and those who eat it. Providing the opportunty to share knowledge about their products and practices, as well as offer advice on how to best use their products.
Events coming up
Kiama Farmers Market
Weekly market with fresh produce, local suppliers and live entertainment. Organised by Kiama Farmers Market (https://kiamafarmersmarket.com.au) “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of publication, we recommend that the individual confirm details with the event organiser, as events can be subject to last minute changes.”
Berry Farmers’ Market
Berry Farmers’ Market is a genuine produce-only weekly Farmers’ Market at the Berry Showground every Thursday from 3pm-5pm. Organised by Berry Farmers Market (https://www.facebook.com/berryfarmersmarket/) “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of publication, we recommend that the individual confirm details with the event organiser, as events can be subject to last minute changes.”
Kiama Farmers Market
Weekly market with fresh produce, local suppliers and live entertainment. Organised by Kiama Farmers Market (https://kiamafarmersmarket.com.au) “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of publication, we recommend that the individual confirm details with the event organiser, as events can be subject to last minute changes.”
Watch
The average farmer in America makes less than 15 cents of every dollar on a product that you purchase at a store. They feed our communities, but farmers often cannot afford the very foods they grow. In this actionable talk, social entrepreneur Mohammad Modarres shows how to put your purchasing power into action to save local agriculture from collapse and transform the food industry from the bottom up.
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The Capital Cookbook 3: Capital Region Farmers Markets
Stefan Posthuma speaks with the team from The Capital Region Farmers Market in Canberra about the importance and benefits of shopping directly with local producers.