Farmers Markets on the Peninsula

Balnarring Racecourse Community Market - Balnarring Racecourse-Coolart Road Balnarring - 3rd Saturday of month, Oct - Apr 8.00am-1.00pm - Tel: (03) 5971 9308

Highland Farmers Market - Dromana Estate, 555 Old Moorooduc Rd, Tuerong - 4th Sunday of month, Jan - Nov 10.00am onwards

Mornington Farmers Market - Mirvac Lifestyle Centre, Bungower Rd (behind Bunnings) Mornington - 2nd Saturday of month - Tel: (03) 5664 0096

Mt Eliza'a Farmers' Market - Mt Eliza Way and Village Green - 4th Sunday of every month 8am-12.30pm - Tel: 0429 398 684

Pearcedale Farmers Market - Pearcedale Community Centre, Baxter Tooradin Rd, Pearcedale - 3rd Saturday of month, All year, 8.00am-1.00pm - Tel: (03) 5978 6620

Red Hill Farmers Market - Red Hill Consolidated School, Arthurs Seat Road, Red Hill, - 4th Saturday of the month - Tel: 0412 895 901

Seaford Farmers Market - Broughton Street Reserve, Broughton St, Seaford - 3rd Sunday of month, 8.00am-1.00pm

Tyabb Farmers Market - Tyabb Packing House, Tyabb Rd, Tyabb, 4th Sunday of month - Tel: (03)9566 0096

Raw honey

A lovely honey stall at the Fairfield Farmers market. I tasted most of the honey's and decided to go for the Stringybark, it was closely contested by their most popular honey the Blue Manna gum. Most of the honeys were from eucalypts other than orange blossom variety which was from orange (citrus) flowers. I learnt that raw honey is runny when really fresh and becomes crystalised and hard a little later and Manuka honey is actually a New Zealand trademark variety of tea tree honey and in Australia it will only be called tea tree.
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Raw honey
cold extracted pure honey
2415 Dookie-Violet Town road
Nalinga, Victoria
ph 0418 881 995

My adventure to the farmers market

Amazingly I have never been to the farmers market at the Collingwood childrens Farm. It's actually kind of unbelievable if I stop to think about it, but i guess it's not really 'on my way' and I usually don't have extra leisure market time (for some strange reaso?n), and usually I just pop along to Ceres and get my weekly friendly little vegetables. It was a really nice experience to go to the farmers market today though in terms of your weekly veggie shop in can't replace Ceres, what it does have though is extra special fancy farm fresh artisan craft foods. I tasted the softest juiciest oranges I've ever had in my life, bought rock hard beautiful green avocados grown in northen Victoria, sampled delicious dips, olive oils, kiwi fruits and wished that I had a car so I could buy a mushroom growing kit! It was very very exciting to see so many local producers embracing slow food, low food miles and chemical free/conscious/organic/biodynamic farming. Harray for food! And for sunshine!

Mount Zero

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Mount Zero are farmers market regulars for many years. Their farm is certified biodynamic and located out near the Grampians in west victoria. The Mount Zero core principals are regionalism, sustainability and quality, all very very good things.
They produce amazing olives, olive oil, tapenade,
beetroot and orange relish, and dukkah as well as supporting and distributing produce from neighbourjnh farms. I bought a huge jar of Gordal green olives, locally grown biodynamic chickpeas and pink lake salt. The salt is hand harvested from a natural salt lake in Dimboola, north west Victoria. The mount zero man (I'm sorry I don't know your name!) told me that he goes up there himself with a shovel and collects it. I've been buying this salt sometimes but it's so wonderful to learn more about it, move over Himalayan crystal salt we've got a new food mile friend!

50km from the Mount Zero Olive grove, in Western Victoria is a large pink salt lake.  The lake is fed by natural salt aquifers and each summer dries to reveal a bed of salmon pink salt.  Mount Zero and the lake's traditional owners, the Barengi Gadjin Land Council, have been working together to hand harvest a small amount of salt from the lake each year.