What’s NEW This Week?
New season Royal Gala apples arrive this week. Follow the aroma of these apples – there is nothing quite like the flavour of new season apples straight from the orchard in 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!
Andy will also have black muscat grapes. Regular shoppers know that this black muscat grape has a short but sweet season so enjoy it while we can. It is a popular medium sized dark grape with a very sweet flavour.
The Chai Harem has a new range of Iced Chais to cool and refresh you on these hot summer days. They include iced Chocolate Chai, iced Coffee chai and iced Chai teas – all oozing with flavour and coolness.
Mushrooms: Garry Miller from Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms only has a very few mushrooms this week – just a few pink oysters. He said that this hot weather is playing havoc – it is too high to trigger the fruiting.
Cooking Demo: at 9.30am this Wednesday with the innovative chef Louise Miller. Louise’s cuisine features fresh wholesome nourishing food. Louise says “Food is my tool to love and connect with others, that’s why I love it so”.
This week she is showing us how she makes:This week she is showing us how she makes:
- Market Celebration Salad showcasing some of our beautiful fresh produce
- Served with Spelt Seeded Zwieback (using market bread adapted)
Community Support: The Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed is back this week
Fortnightly, monthly stall changes:
- Costanzo Apples – be back with new season apples AND grapes
- Gunter’s Flammkuchen – German style pizzas
- The Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed
Absent:
- Go Earth Organic Compost back this week and the first week in every month.
Seasonal changes
- Nudgel Nuts – returns in March
- Narbey’s Best Avocados returns late March or early April
- 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: Guy Kachel
Weather: Sunny with daytime temperatures reaching about 30 degrees. There is a 50% chance of a thunderstorm.
Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):
- Apples
- Bananas
- Beans
- Capsicum
- Corn
- Cos lettuce
- Cucumbers (Lebanese)
- Dragon Fruit
- Grapes
- Limes
- MANGOES
- Passionfruit
- Potatoes (various)
- Rockmelons
- Sweet potatoes
- Strawberries
- Tomatoes
- Watermelons
- 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).
Frui
Apples, Avocados, Bananas (Cavendish, Lady Fingers (organic also), 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, 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!
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, 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).
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.