What’s GREAT This Week?
Is your vegie patch about to SPRING into life after the rain last week? Now is the perfect time to plant your warm weather seedlings from One Organics. They have a range of organic and heirloom seedlings that are grown from open pollinated non hybrid non treated seeds. They also supply the products to boost the micoorganisms in your soil resulting in strong healthy productive plants. Some great warmer weather seedling varieties are basil, bush beans, beetroot, capsicum, chillies, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, okra, silverbeet, tomatoes and zucchini. And don’t forget to include some flowers to attract beneficial insects and bees.
A tip from Kieran: It is important to rotate mulch as it breaks down in your soil. Varying your mulch to include variety such as lucerne and Rhodes grass to sugar cane delivers different nutrients to your soil.
Lisianthus are in full bloom now so pick up a bunch of these treasured flowers this week at Jumping Red Ant.
Market t-shirts – this week we have market t-shirts available. These are either organic cotton for menor organic bamboo for women. They are in a range of sizes and on a grey or black background. In the future we will have more on white but this time only a very few are on the white background. We hope you enjoy these.
Seasonal, Fortnightly or Absent Stallholder Changes this Week:
- Belles Kitchen back THIS week.
- Grassroots Sugar Cane juice is back. David has recovered from his injury.
- Mountain View Eggs are back this week.
- Murwillumbah Community Men’s Shed back THIS week.
- Costanzo Apples absent this week as Rob is in San Francisco cooking up a storm. He will be back next week.
- Spice Palace absent this week as Rob and Duska and the family are having a well earned camping hol. Back next week.
- Tallogum Raspberries – November is their expected return date.
*REMEMBER* ATM at the market! We now have an ATM onsite for your shopping convenience.
Entertainment: Guy Kachel
Weather: Cloudy with a chance of showers, most likely in the morning and afternoon. Overnight temperatures will be around 16 with daytime temperatures reaching the low to mid 20s.
Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):
- Avocados
- Bananas
- BEETROOT
- BLUEBERRIES
- Bok Choy
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Carrots
- Fennel
- Kale
- Lemons
- Lettuce and lots of leafy greens
- Limes
- Passionfruit
- Potatoes (various)
- Pumpkins
- Rockmelons
- STRAWBERRIES
- Sweet potatoes
- Tomatoes
- 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, Raspberries, 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 (Nim
bin Valley Diary) periodically + lamb and chicken sourced within the broader market radius and locally caught fish – very seasonal.
Seafood – Locally harvested fish locally wood smoked by The Bay Smokehouse plus smoked fish rillettes (like a fish