Comments on: Markets: North Melbourne Farmers’ Market

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:30:30 +0000

Yes, we will be there! Look forward to meeting you, another enthusiastic foodie!

By: essjayeats

essjayeats — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:16:24 +0000

Thanks Elizabeth and welcome. I didn’t know you made rillettes? Next market I’ll pop by and introduce myself and you can tell me more about them!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:32:27 +0000

Rillettes and hams (Christmas time) available from the Collingwood Childrens Farm Farmers Market from King Valley Free Range pork! Rare heritage breed pork from happy, healthy pigs, 2nd Sat of the month.

By: essjayeats

essjayeats — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:12:51 +0000

Hi Julie, If you mean the Rillettes, these came with an order of cheese from Bruny Island Cheese. The company who makes them is called Rare Food and they are based in Tasmania. I'm not sure where you are located but you could try these guys who sell over the web. You might also like to look at Feast Fine Foods Simon Johnson will probably also have hams available for ordering - Marchetti's Anyone else like to chip in? Essjay

By: julie

julie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:56:21 +0000

Could you tell me who you bought your Berkshire Pork from. I need a supplier for christmas.

By: essjayeats

essjayeats — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:46:27 +0000

Hi Penny, yes it’s close to us as well so we’ll check it out again – missed the organic beer, might have tried some of that. Thanks for the word about the dogs – they should have advertised that. We sometimes borrow a neighbours dog to take to Collingwood as it seems to be de riguer – and he has a lovely time.

By: penny aka jeroxie

penny aka jeroxie — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:37 +0000

It was a rush for me. The whole market looks quite sad. Few stalls, few people but I guess blame it on Cup weekend and not so good weather. Mister bought some organic beer and apparently good! I missed out on the cheese and the dim sims. It is so close to me so I will try again next month. Hopefully, there will be an improvement.
Just to note, no dogs allowed! I had to tie my dog at the gate.

By: Injera

Injera — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:49:41 +0000

Oh, word on the Get Up! people. Given that they were standing so close to the entrance, I thought they were collecting information for the market. Dudes – I get your emails; get out of my face!

Sticki, I will definitely try the dim sims next time! I agree with you on the borek people – once I read their display screen, I wondered why frozen, microwaveable food was represented and didn’t go closer to find out. Do wish I’d picked up some boerewors, though, for tomorrow’s cup barbecue…

I do think this market will find it hard being so close to the Vic. We went with the intention of stocking up on veg and needed to make a dash to the Vic to supplement it. Given that we can also get chutney and scarves there, unless the fresh produce improves we won’t bother going regularly.

It’s close, so we will go for the next couple just to see how it develops…

By: essjayeats

essjayeats — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:40:48 +0000

Hi Sticki, I didn’t recognise anyone from Gasworks…I’ve never ventured to Veg Out. The muesli bars were not to my taste either. Currently I’ve got three jars of Meredith Fetta in the fridge …so I didn’t dare go near them! Thanks for filling in some of the gaps.

By: stickifingers

stickifingers — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:18:54 +0000

A number of the stall holders there also attend Veg Out farmers market in St.Kilda & Gasworks in Albert Park, including the Walkabout Apiaries honey from Millawa; Jindivick tomato/herbs/eggplant; Knead Bakers; Family Homestead free range eggs, and the Gozleme making family who usually also sell their Mum’s exquisite Turkish dips and dolmades.

Then there was Pindarri Chicken who also had Peking duck & Silky black chicken and Little Creek Cattle Co. selling lamb/hogget/beef. I hadn’t seen the Brazilian beef before, nor the dimmies stall. The low GI muesli bars were interesting, but I wasn’t a fan of the taste. Most striking was that there were far too many chutney stalls.

This market felt like more of a social gathering of the primary schools parents. Not many people had come equipped with shopping bags and many were just hoping to do a sampling as though they were at a food fest. The family selling Turkish delight, falafel and boreks were just showcasing their stuff before it goes into Woolworths next year – hardly appropriate to a farmers market.

Still, we managed to fill our shopping jeep with goodies, but would have loved to see more dairy there. Best buy was the 2kg bucket of Meridith marinated goats feta. Containing the equivalent of eight $10 jars it cost us $50…and because we eat so much of it, couldn’t resist.

This will be an occasional market for us, we’ll stick to our two regular Saturday markets.