Berries Galore!
‘The buckets are in!’ Dean tells me. Sure enough, those white plastic buckets filled with 1.25kg of blueberries command one end of the ...read more
‘The buckets are in!’ Dean tells me. Sure enough, those white plastic buckets filled with 1.25kg of blueberries command one end of the ...read more
MAD MOUNTAIN My initial attraction was to the profusion of green, foliage in all different textures and tones. Then it was the name, ...read more
Eleanor, presiding over the table of apples and pears, weighing the contents of the metal bowls as the steady stream of customers, mostly ...read more
I’m doing a little taste-test. From each of the three jars of honey before me I have removed a modest sample. Jotted down ...read more
Their excitement is infectious. Young schoolboys in uniform cluster around Rebecca Barnes’ stall as she passes the finger limes around: they bite in, ...read more
Fermentation, the metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substances, has been used by humans since the Neolithic age, both to produce ...read more
At the Forrest’s stall while Dave serves and chats to customers, wife Sue is showing me the magazine she’s been editor of for ...read more
In a beautiful example of letting nothing go to waste, Dorper Lamb’s Warren and Marina Wiggins have created a skincare range out of ...read more
From the age of 17, owner of Seedlings Organic Luke Sansom has worked in horticulture. Down on the Mornington Peninsular he was a ...read more
The zucchini omelette returns! After a near 12-month absence, brother and sister team Rob and Michelle Costanzo are coming back to the markets, ...read more