Sep 6, 2018
Article by Andrea Paran Last month Langdale Orchards, a regular at our farmers markets, celebrated its 160th birthday. Congratulations team! For over six generations the Lang family have developed and tended to their orchard, growing high quality, fresh fruit for...
Jun 28, 2018
By Andrea Paran, Communications Volunteer at Melbourne Farmers Markets Shopping for your family’s weekly groceries doesn’t have to be a hurried duck into the supermarket or a late-night scan over the current online specials, and why should it be an unglamorous weekly...
Jun 5, 2018
By Nicholas Kennedy, Communications Volunteer at Melbourne Farmers Markets. Nuts are something of a fascination to me and right now we’re in the thick of the season. As far as their place within the grand food kingdom, there’s nothing quite like them. Savoury or...
May 1, 2018
Check out what will be hitting your local farmers’ markets with this handy guide to what’s in season throughout...
Apr 7, 2018
Oh how we love April! It’s April and that means we celebrate the incredible colours and variety of Autumn produce! This month you’ll see mandarins, pomegranates and quinces coming in alongside the last of the tomatoes, the sweetest corn and the ripest of new season...
Mar 17, 2018
Help! My tomatoes are ripening all at once but I don’t live on a diet consisting of 100% tomatoes! Tomatoes are an extremely adaptable resource in the world of food and cooking. As Samwise Gamgee once said, “boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew” – I know in...
