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Hi there
Easter week & YES we are open! Stock up on the Easter ingredients & treats for you, your family and friends. There will be a few vendors away this weekend but there will still be plenty to eat, drink & stock up on for the fridge & pantry. Samples are allowed back for you to try before you buy too. A taste sensation as you do the Market circuit & listen to the Valley Blue Grass Band & Jason Barrett will be on sax at the other end & maybe one or two other musicans.
We encourage mask use & respecting everyone’s space within the Market while we still have high cases in our community even though we are now in the Orange setting.
For those of you who are stuck at home we have a few vendors that can deliver to your door during the week, Gilberts Fine Foods, Ettrick Gardens, Waewae, Ronia & Pippi, Agreeable Nature Eggs, Blue Mountain Butchery, Tartan Sari, Dunford Grove, Evansdale Cheese, Oamaru Organics, Harbour Fish, Havoc Pork, Blueskin Bay Honey, Wild Dispensary, Judge Rock Wines, Hazelnut Estate, Matheson & Roberts, Whitestone Cheese, Breads & More, Dunedin Craft Distillery, Waitaki Orchard, Princes St Butchery & others. All their contact details you can find on our website www.otagofarmersmarket.org.nz under vendors.
Bring CASH as some of our vendors are cash only.
Remember your keep cup, return jars & containers to keep the ReUse cycle loop working & bags for vegies & fruit. All of our Ready-to-Eats are more than happy to fill your containers.
Vote for your favourite farmers market & vendor below if you haven’t already to go into the nationwide drawer to find the best in NZ!
Shop your way around Otago this weekend…. at the Market! And please respect everyone’s space. Take care of each other & thanks for supporting local where you can. And I hope you are doing ok this week.
Happy Easter & nice, safe holiday if you are getting away & welcome to our out of town visitors!
Ngā mihi
Michele
Market Manager
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This Week in the kitchen
Happy Easter all! I have found some perfect recipes from the archive to indulge in this Easter weekend, all easily made from ingredients found at the market. I added a couple roast veggie options as it is defiantly appropriate for the weather (and maybe good to balance out all the chocolate!). Enjoy the rest of your week, I look forward to seeing you all at the Market this Saturday! Bella (Assistant Manager)
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Earnscleugh Orchard
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Hi, we will be at the market this Saturday and we hope to see you there. Come up onto the platform and look for our RED VAN. We bring a huge variety fruit from ALEXANDRA from the EARNSCLEUGH. Free tasting at our stall, please come and try before you buy!
We have a fantastic range including: STONEFRUIT, PEACHES, NECTARINES, PLUMS, and our ORGANIC new season APPLES and PEARS are back. Yay!
Our Stone fruit is amazing, sweet, tree ripened and juicy. Remember you can mix the same priced fruit in one paper bag and get a wee taste on Central.
Our ORGANIC APPLES are back. This week we have:
HONEYCRISP, ROYAL GALA, QUEEN, KORU
Plus, spray-free Granny Smith Apples
Asian Quince
Plus, Asure Quality Apples
COX ORANGE, ROYAL GALA, RED DELICIOUS, Nancy Fizz APPLES ARE BACK.
We have a huge variety of ASURE QUALITY Stone fruit. Outstanding tree ripened fruit ready to eat now.
PEACHERINES, PEACHES, NECTARINES (White and Yellow), FREEDOM PLUM, NASHI GOLD
We will possibly have some jam grade apricots or bottling nectarines, please txt and order as they sell fast. These are HALF PRICE.
We have Stan's ORGANIC Apple chips (Plain and Cinnamon). Plus Spray Free Muscat GRAPES. So sweet and delicious.
Honey available this week:
Thyme, Honey comb, Clover (runny and creamed), Manuka
If you want to order any fruit to collect please let me know and we will pack to order.
TXT Sher 021 455341 for orders or questions. Please collect any orders before the market closes at 12:30pm.
Hope to see you Saturday. Sher and Rob
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Dunedin Craft Distillers
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Come and see us for a tasting and chat about our gins and vodka. We will have our lovely new 500mil bottles of gin and 750mil bottles of our award winning Cacao Vodka for sale at our stall on the platform.
Looking forward too seeing you!
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La Crepe Market Specials
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JAM OF THE DAY: BLACK DORIS PLUM $ 7
IT’S A WINNER: $ 9
LEMON CURD OR PASSION FRUIT WITH LOW SUGAR HAZELNUT MERINGUE AND WHIPPED CREAM
STRAWBERRY DREAM: $11
Strawberry jam, Fresh market strawberries, With custard or whipped cream
BOOST YOUR SPIRIT WITH COVISET $3
Injected Grand Marnier with any sweet crepe (Adult Only)
SPECIALS SAVOURY CREPE: $11.00
- ROASTED PUMPKIN & ONION WITH OR WITHOUT FETA (VEGAN)
OR
- WILD VENISON & VEGETABLE STEW WITH RED WINE, DARK COCOA AND A TOUCH OF CHILLY
With Cheese or Hummus
And with Salad & Dressing OR Egg
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Dunford Grove
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Happy Easter people! Do you like our egg-shaped beauties?
An olive tree turns sunshine into oil, we’ve had a really good summer for sunshine hours, so the colour is just starting to turn. Looks like harvest this year will be about three weeks early!
Did you know?
New Zealand has a little over 300 olive groves growing 350,000 trees and totalling about 2,130 hectares. The largest grower boasts 40,000 trees while over 70% of groves have less than 1,000 trees.
This country consumes over 4.5 million litres of olive oil a year and not all of it is extra virgin, local producers account for about 12% of this total and practically all of it is Extra Virgin Olive Oil! Sandy
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Tartan Sari
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Hello Pickle lovers, I am so excited to be offering tastings again, I have even made some special gluten-free seed crackers to celebrate.
Our pickles and chutneys will make a fabulous addition to your Easter menu, come and tell me what you are making and I will be able to recommend the perfect pairing.
Also, we have entered our Zucchini and Orange & Lemon pickles into the Outstanding Food Producers awards. Come and have a taste and let us know what you think!
Wishing you a Spicy weekend!
Danielle x
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Willowbrook Orchard
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The Apple block at Willowbrook Orchard at Roxburgh is looking pretty as Autumn slowly moves in🍁🍂🍎🍏John will be bringing a lovely variety of fabulous fresh apples to eat or gift-give over Easter straight out of this apple part of our orchard.
Also, there will be Late Golden Peaches which cook up great for family + friends visiting over this special weekend. Keep safe and God bless You all 🍁🍏🍑
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Ettrick Gardens Market Specials
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Buy direct from the grower, better quality at a better price!
Strawberries & blueberries
Spray free pumpkins & squash
Freshly picked super sweet sweetcorn
Spray free broccoli & cauliflower
New seasons apples & pears
Royal gala, cox’s orange, ballerat, co ambrosia, golden delicious, fiesta and pacific beauty apples
Peas good non such cooking apples
Beurre hardy, Taylors gold, bon cretian, doyenne du comice, beurre bosc & conference pears
Cherry tomatoes (soil grown & super tasty)
Chillies & peppers (soil grown)
Spray free celery, spinach & fennel
Spray free red & green cabbage
Potatoes agria, red fantasy, lily rose & jelly
Coloured carrots, carrots & parsnips
Shallots & garlic
Spray free silver beet & bright lights silver beet. Spray free kale & cavolo nero
Spray free beetroot - round or cylindra, gold or candy
Most of our vegetables are spray free.
Our courier to your door service is still available anytime.
email j.hpreedyege@actrix.co.nz for our latest order form and we can add you to our weekly update.
Ettrick gardens
On your right at the main gate, or
Rapid 5104,
State highway 8, Ettrick.
Central Otago. 03 446 6863
Follow us on Instagram & Facebook
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Oamaru Organics
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We will be absent from the Otago Farmers Market this weekend for a well deserved break for all our staff for Easter.
Thank you to all who entered our competition to win a box of our Ready Eat Meal. Liam from Waewae Permaculture was the lucky winner, we hope he enjoys the meals.
We hope you all get a break over the long weekend and look forward to seeing you all next weekend.
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ORANGE TRAFFIC LIGHT
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We encourage MASK USE at the Market currently.
Everyone welcome but PLEASE STAY AWAY IF UNWELL (vendors & customers).
Please respect the 1mt distancing rule between all vendors, staff & customers at the market.
Please only handle food & produce that you are going to buy.
Please sneeze into your elbow.
Cash still accepted.
Please be PATIENT & RESPECT each other’s space.
Please bring your coffee keep cups, etc with you & bottle / jar returns, etc, these are always accepted & encouraged.
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Vote for your Favourite Farmers Market
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Support local business by showing your favourite New Zealand food producer and farmers' market you love their work by voting for them in Coast Kiwis’ Favourite Awards 2022.
Every vote in Coast Kiwis’ Favourite Food Producer or Coast Kiwis’ Favourite Farmers' Market goes into the draw to win one of two Homegrown Farm Fresh Meats Mixed Boxes – Beef and Lamb, valued at $320. Homegrown Farm Fresh Meats Mixed Box was Supreme Champion of the 2021 Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards.
If you have a special favourite vendor at Otago Farmers Market we have all our vendors listed on our website www.otagofarmersmarket.org.nz if you need a reminder!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE
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