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SAGE Farmers Market seeks new site coordinator

After six years, market manager Kate Raymond has decided the time is right (or perhaps ripe) to step down from the role. Kate started as the site coordinator in February 2013, just a few weeks after the market began. Since then, she has helped SAGE and the stall holders build the market into an award-winning […]

Radio: 2EC Brekky Bar with Kimmi – 14 December

Radio 2EC’s Kimmi and Market Manager Kate Raymond chat about the economic impact of the SAGE Farmers Market and the upcoming special Christmas Eve market. .

Radio: 2EC Brekky Bar with Kimmi

Radio 2EC’s Kimmi interviewed Market Manager Kate Raymond about the SAGE Farmers Market, eating seasonally and the impact of the current drought on local producers. . In the second part of the interview, Kimmi asked Kate if the statewide drought had been impacting local producers. .

The measure of success: SAGE Farmers Market to conduct further economic impact study in 2019

In 2014, after the market had been underway for a year or so, we decided we should try to put some numbers behind our gut feeling that the market was having a significant impact on our local food system. We wanted to know how the farmers market was actually performing, and more importantly, how it […]

Facing disappointment in a local food system

This is Fraser of Old Mill Road BioFarm during the market’s “Hungry Gap” of spring 2013, but the gap in 2018 has started in July, thanks to drought and a perfect storm of other circumstances. Getting feedback is a funny thing. For every comment saying there’s too much of one thing, there’s another comment saying […]

New faces at the SAGE Farmers Market

Image: Jo Lane of Sea Health Products joined the market in 2017 – another innovative local producer 2018 started off with some devastating news for the market. Two of our long term stall holders were leaving, due to changes in their businesses and not being able to attend anymore. One was Luke & Ebony Hemler […]

LONG READ: SAGE Farmers Market turns 5, the story so far

This article is about a 15 minute read. Here are some shortcuts for you, in case. The first market and why we start at 3pm We introduce our “backyarders” program and start distributing excess food to refuges SAGE’s first market gardener intern starts selling his produce at the market We win a delicious. Produce Award […]

2017 delicious. Magazine Produce Awards

From the SAGE Farmers Market managing committee chairman, Stuart Whitelaw. Photos by Kate Raymond Monday nights are the Sunday nights of the hospitality industry. Try to eat out on a Monday, even in regional areas, and your choices are limited. Monday evenings are when the annual delicious. Magazine Produce Awards are held, and this year […]

The plastic conundrum

A few people have contacted me about single-use plastic bags at the market following the announcement from the supermarkets about getting rid of them. The thing is, supermarkets do nothing that doesn’t benefit them. If it sounds too good to be true that a supermarket is doing something good, that’s because it is (too good […]

The price of food – Part IV: Salad

There’s more to running a farmers market then you might at first think. That’s my excuse for such a long gap between blog posts in this series about the price of food. But at the Deep Winter Agrarian Gathering at Gerringong last year, Costa Georgiadis — one of Australia’s best communicators — reminded us how important it […]

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