News

On Saturday 28 January the Slow Food Farmers' Market will move next door to the Collingwood Children's Farm!

That's right the farmers are on the move! But don't worry you'll still find the summer produce from 60 Victorian farmers and makers from the Slow Food Farmers' Market, but just with the animal bonus of the Collingwood Children’s Farm venue.  

To quote Christine Ross, much respected free range pig farmer and farmers' market stallholder, "A very serious and very sad event occurred in Victoria this week." You may have heard in the news the LE Giles Abattoir in Gippsland was closed within 12 hours of a video being released by Animals Australia to Primesafe, the Victorian meat authority .If you choose to view the video on Animals Australia's website, I warn you it is extremely distressing and certainly necessitated an immediate response.

This month's newsletter has the four winners of our photo competition, plus other Spring news! Click here for more! 

There's so much to tell that there’ll hardly be room to list all the fab winter produce happening around the markets this August.

BRACE YOURSELF FOR WINTER FOLKS...

Don’t be fooled by a glorious couple of Winter days; remember only last week? Many parts of Victoria have recorded extreme cold and considerable rainfall already so who knows what's in store for the next few months. Let's just hope that it's kind to us on market mornings...

Read the June Newsletter 

 ON WITH AUTUMN

The season seems to have caught up with itself now and the mild summer has morphed into Autumn without major incident in our little corner of the world. Queensland has suffered more incredible rain and who knows what impact it will have on fresh produce over the next few months but it does highlight our overall reliance on supplies from elsewhere.