Category Archives: the bigger picture

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 […]

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 […]

Yesterday, two SFM Committee members and I drove up to Ulladulla (a town about an hour north of Moruya) to witness another important event in the restoration of our local food system. A small but passionate group of Ulladulla locals organised themselves to start up the Gaia Farmers Market. It took some doing, but they did […]

If you’ve been to a farmers market — especially our farmers market, but any farmers market — then you know first hand how great they can be. Sure, they have their drawbacks, like no strawberries in winter, but when you shop at a farmers market, you feel like you’re part of something. Yep, something really down-home feel-good, […]

The SAGE Farmers Market has been operating for almost 2 and a half years now. Whoa. That’s gone so quickly and so much has happened. The market is an unequivocal success, confirming our strong belief that there was (and is) a demand in our area for local food. We’ve grown in that time, both in numbers […]