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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

If only I could get all my dry goods when I go to the farmers market, as well as the freshest vegetables, meat, fish, milk and bread! If only I could get it all in one place! I know, right? Our region doesn’t have a great climate for growing grains and many other crops, so […]

23 – 29 May, 2017 Over an action packed week, FOOD STORIES examines that web of interactions within the food system of the hugely successful SAGE Farmers Market in Moruya. Commencing at the Tuesday market, you will witness the extraordinary vitality of this enterprise. In a deliberate way we are starting at the end, at […]

L-R: Andrew Greenway from Council’s Business Development Unit, SAGE Farmers Market Chairman Stuart Whitelaw and Eurobodalla Mayor Lindsay Brown at the market last Tuesday. At its meeting on Tuesday 12 April, Eurobodalla councillors voted in favour of a proposal put before them that will see thousands of dollars of funding returned to SAGE every year. […]

After more than a year and around 100 hours of volunteer effort, SAGE has released the SAGE Farmers Market Economic Impact Study 2014-2015 report detailing the local economic development impacts of its hugely successful farmers market, and the bottom line is taking everyone by surprise. Or perhaps not everyone. “The market’s managing committee knew that […]

Eurobodalla Mayor Lindsay Brown holds a box of local produce with SFM Chairman Stuart Whitelaw alongside, looking appropriately chuffed. The SAGE Farmers e-Market central pickup point “is an important development for the local food economy,” said the Mayor. In a move intended to make the SAGE Farmers e-Market more convenient for customers, a centralised pickup […]

The award-winning SAGE Farmers Market has been chosen as a pilot site for the national 2016 Boots for Change awareness campaign, organised by the Australian Farmers’ Markets Association (AFMA). Boots — any kind — gumboots, RMs, work boots, riding boots, tap boots, cowboy boots, fashion boots — have been chosen as an iconic symbol to connect farmers, their […]