Category Archives: "the price of food"

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

Do you think in terms of price or value? Since this series began, we’ve explored the idea that shopping at a farmers market represents better value than shopping at a supermarket and that, in fact, it can even be cheaper in the long run. To help us shift the conversation from price to value, we’re doing some product

As I introduced in the first blog post in this series, The Parsley Incident inspired me to dive into the murky water of comparing supermarket products with farmers market products to illustrate why shopping at a farmers market is, basically, better. Together, we’re going to try and work out if being motivated by a cheaper price when

In our blog post about why you should shop at a farmers market, I listed 5 good reasons. What isn’t mentioned is price. Is it cheaper to shop at a farmers market? Well, yes and no. Personally, I don’t base many decisions about the food I buy on price, so I don’t think about it