farmers’ market

SA Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market, every Saturday Located in a sweet point, midway between the Adelaide Hills and Barossa Valley and an hour from Adelaide, this market draws farmers from across both food-rich regions and attracts customers from the city. There’s an extraordinary range here, from chemical-free vegetables grown by Sabri and Judy Dogan on their family market garden in Murray Bridge to Limousin beef, produced at Pebbly Range Limousin at Tungkillo. In the two showground pavilions, one is devoted to food shopping — free-range eggs, poultry, bread, wine from Eden Valley, milk and cheese, citrus from Nildottie, dried fruit from Mypolonga and seafood from the coast, once a month — and the other, to a makeshift tea room, where everyone meets to catch up over breakfast and coffee. 8am–noon. Mount Pleasant Showgrounds, Melrose Street, Mount Pleasant. 0418 301 121; mpfm.org.au

TASMANIA

Harvest Launceston Community Farmers’ Market, every Saturday On Saturday mornings, the council car park off Cimitiere Street transforms into a community hub. Farmers from all over Tasmania congregate with their wares while shoppers stream though with laden trolleys. People come to shop for food and to breakfast and meet friends, but they also come to dance and make music. Two recommendations for breakfast are the Afghan bolani, a potato bread pocket filled with vegetables, and the bacon and egg roll from Meat Bread Cheese — MBC for those in the know. The market has a strict governance that all food be grown and produced in Tasmania; the aim is to support local food systems. You’ll find it all, from organic heirloom vegetables to fresh seasonal truffles from Tamar Valley Truffles. They even have a local salt, Tasman Sea Salt. 8.30am–12.30pm. Council carpark, 71 Cimitiere Street, Launceston. 0417 352 780; harvestmarket.org.au