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What’s NEW this week?

Announcing warm sunny days and the taste of summer is the rich golden mango. Being so quick and easy to prepare and bursting with nutrition let’s enjoy the sweet sticky juice of our local mango while the season lasts.

Arriving later in the subtropics (the early fruit has travelled from the tropics beginning with Darwin and then far north Queensland) Everest Farm has Bowens and R2E2. All though it hasn’t been a good year for mangoes in the Tweed we are fortunate that Will has a good crop to share.

Stallholder update:

• 11^th Hour Coffee – absent this weeks and the following two weeks returning on 1^st week in March.
• Richard of Zetas coffee is located at the back of the pavilion for your coffee hit.

• TANZO Apples (back with new season apples and grapes on 17th)
• Local Fusion Food is taking a 6 month break for study reasons.
• Mayfields has ceased trading. It seems that our shoppers are not keen on full breakfasts.

Stallholders season ended:

Blueberries – the spring and summer season has come to an end

Stallholders season starting up gain

Nudgel Nuts should return early March

Narbey’s Best Avocados returns to the market sometime in March 2016 if the weather is favourable

Entertainment: Rob Csokas

Weather Forecast is for: Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of a shower. Overnight temperatures falling to around 18 with daytime temperatures reaching around 30.

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

• Bananas
• Beans
• Blueberries
• Capsicum
• Carrots
• Corn
• Cucumbers (Lebanese)
• Dragon Fruit
• Finger limes
• Garlic
• Passionfruit
• Potatoes (various)
• Papaya
• Sweet potatoes
• Sprouts
• Tomatoes
• Watermelon
• Rockmelons
• Zucchini

Seasonal Produce List Updated:

Vegetables

Beans (+organic), Beetroot (+organic), Broccoli, Cabbage, 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 Corn, Sweet Potato (+organic), Tatsoi (organic) Swedes, Tomatoes (+organic), Taro, Watercress, Wheat grass, Zucchini (+organic).

Fruit

Apples, Avocados, Bananas (Cavendish, Lady Fingers (organic also) and Little Gem), Blueberries, Carambola (star fruit), Custard apples, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit (organic), Lemons + Limes (incl organic), Mangoes, Mandarin (organic), Oranges (organic), Passionfruit, Paw Paw, Pears, Rock melons, Strawberries, Watermelons.

Flowers

Gerberas, Lisianthus, Roses, Tropical flowers – currently red and yellow 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 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 range of organic flours (including spelt and rye) and flavours that use local market products including macadamia nut bread!

Meat

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