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Fuerte avocados, seafood and pears

What’s NEW This Week?

AVOCADOS are back! John Aitkin’s said that his Fuertes are ready now so they are at the market this week. I love the Fuertes and wait all year for this avocado that has a rich nutty flavour. Fuertes are a thin skinned avo so all the more flesh to eat but it means they don’t travel well making them more suited to a farmers’ market than travelling long road miles. Visit Jumping Red Ant for your local avocados this week.

What’s GREAT This Week?

Also great this week are the new season pears and apples so visit Andy at the Costanzo Apple Stall. And grab a packet of Ian’s macadamia nuts at his Nudgel Nut Stall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Support: Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed with their very popular camphor laurel bread boards (if weather permits).

Fortnightly, monthly stall changes: 

  • Go Earth Organic Compost back NEXT week. Hamish and Mark bring this popular compost to the market fortnightly now. It is a great addition to your garden as you prepare your soil for autumn and winter planting.

Seasonal updates:

  • Narbey’s Best Avocados returns on 5th April with Shepards avocados.
  • Blueberry Fields returns in July or August weather depending.


*REMEMBER* ATM at the market!

 We now have an ATM onsite for your shopping convenience.

Entertainment: Broadfoot

Weather: We may be very lucky and have a fine day this week. The forecast is for a cloudy day with patchy morning fog inland. There is an 80% chance of showers, most likely in the afternoon and evening. Overnight temperatures will fall to around 20 with daytime temperatures nearing 30 degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):

  • Bananas
  • Beans
  • Capsicum
  • Carrots
  • Corn
  • Cos lettuce
  • Cucumbers (Lebanese)
  • Dragon Fruit
  • Grapes
  • Mangoes
  • Passionfruit
  • Potatoes (various)
  • Rockmelons
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Sapotes (Mamey)
  • Strawberries
  • Tomatoes
  • Watermelons
  • Zucchini

Seasonal Produce List Updated:

Vegetables

Beans (+organic), Beetroot (+organic), Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Capsicum, Cauliflower, Chard (organic), Chilli, Cucumber (+organic), Corn (+organic), Eggplant (+organic), Garlic (+organic), Herbs (basil + organic basil, coriander, fennel, ginger, rocket, turmeric and more), Kale (+organic), Lettuce (cos organic), Fancy Lettuce and mixed salad greens, Micro greens (+ wide variety of organic such as alfalfa, barley greens, sunflower, broccoli, chick pea), Peas incl snow peas (+organic), Mizuna, Onion (+organic), Mushrooms, Pak Choi (organic), Potato (Sebago) , Potatoes (kipfler ++), Pumpkin (+organic), Salad Mix, Silver Beet, Sprouts (+organic), Spinach (+organic), Sweet Potato (+organic), Tatsoi (organic), Swedes, Tomatoes (+organic), Taro, Turnip, Watercress, Zucchini (+organic).

Fruit

Apples, Apricots, Avocados, Bananas (Cavendish, Lady Fingers (organic also), Black muscat grapes, Blueberries, Carambola (star fruit), Custard apples, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit (organic), Lemons + Limes (incl organic), Lychees, Mangoes, Mandarin (organic), Oranges (organic), Passionfruit, Paw Paw, Pears, Plums, Rock melons, Sapotes, Strawberries, Watermelons.

Flowers

Gerberas, Lisianthus, Roses, Tropical flowers – currently sassy heliconias.

Eggs – including organic

Nuts – Pecan nuts and macadamia nuts, nut oils, butters and choc coated nuts

Dairy – Cows milk, cheeses and yoghurt, kefir, cultured butter ++ Goats milk and soft cheeses, kefir

Honey – Raw unprocessed Caldera honey, creamed honey and creamed honey with cinnamon! And bees wax candles.

Rice and Breads – A variety of artisan sour dough breads baked with a diversity of organic flours (including spelt and rye) and many flavours that use local market products including macadamia nut bread!

Mushrooms – Gourmet mushrooms – king oysters, white oysters, pink oysters, blue oysters, shiitake and Shimeji available at Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms and button mushrooms at Mountain View Eggs.

Meat – Beef, pork and goat (All Natural Meat Company produced), Salami (Nimbin Valley Diary) periodically + lamb and chicken sourced within the broader market radius and locally caught fish – very seasonal.

Seafood – Locally harvested oysters by Noel Baggalay from his Brunswick and Tweed Rivers oyster farm. Seasonally caught local fish, prawns and other seafood as it becomes locally available.