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This week at Hill Street Farmers' Market
e-Newsletter, 1 September 2011
Every Saturday morning, 8:30am - 12:30pm Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Hill St, Thorndon
Enjoy a taste of the region at Hill Street Farmers' Market
New at the market this Saturday.
Ruahine Wines will be joining the market once a fortnight, bringing you dry and medium fruit wines and fruit ports. Their blueberry, boysenberry and Black Doris ports have the unique quality of being aged with NZ native Mountain Totara. Ruahine are the only commercial winery aging with NZ native wood instead of oak. Their winery is in Dannevirke and the fruit used in the wines and port is organic or spray free and picked at the height of ripeness. Ruahine have just won the trophy for the best fortified wine in NZ.
Ruahine Wines will alternate weeks with Avatar Estate Wines so you can buy quality wine at the market every week now. In addition, there is delicious apple cider and apple brandy available from The Apple Quarters as well as pear and apple juice from The Apple Quarters and Wairarapa Eco Farm - so you can get drinks for all occasions at the market!
Supporting Fair Trade
Supporting local producers, and ensuring they get a fair price for their products, is an important reason to shop at a farmers' market. Looking further afield, we also like to ensure that any imported products are also fair trade - coffee for example. As many of you will know, the banana industry is one of the most polluting and exploitative of its workers, and the advent of fairtrade bananas in New Zealand is very welcome. To support this worthwhile initiative, and because we know it is an important issue to many of you too, we will occasionally have fairtrade bananas available for sale at the Information Stall.
Green Wellies - Recycle your plant pots please
Green Wellies is a group of friends who enjoy gardening and growing food. Overwhelmed with promiscuous perennials and an overflow of vegetable seedlings, Bee, Anna and Adrienne are offering their garden surplus for sale at Green Wellies stalls on 19th, 26th November and 10th December.
Meanwhile they are desperate for pots, particularaly the 9 cm variety - plastic or terracotta will do. If you have some to donate please bring them to the market this Saturday and put them in the large cane basket at the market entrance. Thank you.
Seafood City will have delicious naturally smoked salmon this Saturday - a wonderful start to Fathers' Day lunch perhaps!
Cupcakes for the SPCA.
Chrissy Grainer raised $148 for the SPCA at her fundraising cupcake stall last Saturday. Thank you to everyone who bought yummy cupcakes and supported this worthy cause.
Upcoming Events
24 September, 2011
Spring Festival
1st October, 2011
St. Francis Day.
Best market dog competition.
Weekly Friends' discounts
Seafood City offers Friends a 20% discount this week.
Not a friend yet? It only costs $25 p.a. and you will get great discounts every week. For more information, email manager@hillstfarmersmarket.org.nz or pop into the market information stall on any Saturday morning.
Stallholders this week...
Gisborne Citrus - oranges, lemons and mandarins
Harringtons - free range beef, pork, lamb, sausages, small-goods and eggs, hot sandwiches produced with award winning free range pork products
The Apple Quarters - fresh spray free fruit, juice, cider vinegar, cider and brandy, honey, bread
Simply Paris - daily baked French breads and viennoiseries
Michael's Kitchen - preserves, hummus, goat’s cheese from Golden Bay, frozen soup, feijoa chips, walnuts, hot soup by the cup, frozen take away dinners
Farmers' Fresh - fresh vegetables
Te Manaia - certified organic vegetables and fruit
The Good Oil Co-Op - Wairarapa olive oils, soaps, dukkah, aioli
Kingsmeade Cheese - artisan ewe and cow’s milk cheeses
Franca e Franca - coffee, tea, hot chocolate, biscotti, juice
Wairarapa Eco Farm - certified organic vegetables, free range eggs, seedlings and Parkvale (non organic) mushrooms.
Seafood City Mobile - fresh fish
Carries Gluten Free - high quality gluten free bakery goods
Information Stall - BioFarm milk and yoghurt, Pics peanut butter, MacSnack macadamia nut products, shopping bags, marketbookmarks, fairtrade bananas
Ruahine Wines - organic fruit wines and ports
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