What’s GREAT at the Market this Week?
Australia’s favourite apple is back! New season Royal Gala apples arrive this week. Simply follow the aroma of these very aromatic apples! Nothing compares to the crisp texture and sweet flavour of new season apples straight from their orchard near Stanthorpe – the place so well known for producing the best Royal Gala apples in Australia.
Characterised by a blush of pink on its skin this dense, sweet, juicy apple is the perfect lunch box fruit. Simply delicious anytime!
Storage tip: To keep your apples crunchy the advice from Aussie Apples is to keep your apples in the fridge. Fruit bowls full of shiny red apples look great in impressionist art, but they’re a sure way to make your apples floury.
Did you know that in a 2014 survey about Australia’s favourite apple conducted by Source:NewsComAu the Royal Gala was ranked NO. 1.
Nestled in under the camphors beside the Costanzo Apple Stall are Tallogum Raspberries.
A great special on organic garlic is available at Sylva Lining Organics so if you missed last weeks garlic check it out this week.
And in case you missed last weeks post – One Organic seedlings is back. It is perfect weather for planting your summer seedlings to check out the range available at the market.
So many beautiful gentle lisianthus too at Jumping Red Ant as well as their sassy heliconias and few fresh figs too.
This week:
- Bangalow Road’s Almond Milk – is now a regular at our market and this week w
ill be on theentry path near my “office”. - One Organic – with new summer seedlings
- Absent will be Nourished Live Foods but Jess and Jan will be back next week.
Coming this week: This week All Natural Meat Co will be carrying Oakleigh Farm’s free range eggs. Scott the farmer will be at the market too this week only. We are hoping Scott and Anta will soon have their own egg stall when their production increases sufficinetly.
Season has ended for: Avocados, macadamia nuts, pecan nuts. They will return in April. Apples have finished BUT new season Royal Galas will be in NEXT week – yeah!!
Weather: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers – how wonderful these light showers have been for the garden and the temperature! Wednesday we will see cooler weather continuing with temps ranging from high teens up to the mid to high 20’s.
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Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):
- APPLES – new season Royal Galas
- Bananas
- Beetroot
- Blueberries
- Capsicum
- CORN
- Cucumbers
- DRAGON FRUIT
- Lettuce and lots of leafy greens
- MANGOES
- Passionfruit
- Paw Paw
- Potatoes (various)
- Pumpkins
- Plums
- Raspberries
- Rockmelon
- Strawberries
- Sweet potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Watermelon
- Zucchinis
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, Raspberries, Rock melons, Sapotes, Strawberries, Watermelons.
Flowers – Gerberas, Lisianthus, Roses, Tropical flowers – sassy heliconias.
Eggs – including free range and 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.