A great night out for a great cause!

This Wednesday at 8:30pm NZ will see the premiere of the movie Food Inc.

It is probably the most important food movie of the last few years and is creating huge discussion overseas.

Food Inc is a movie about the food we eat. It challenges us to think about who grows it and what modern
developments in food production mean to our health and our environment.

You can see for yourself what all the talk is about by attending the open night screenings throughout
the country.

Farmers Market New Zealand is hosting this premiere in celebration of the new growing season and $5 from
every ticket sold will go directly to your local Farmers Market.

Greystone Wines from the Waipara Valley in North Canterbury will be providing a free glass of wine at
each of the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch screenings.

For more information and to purchase your ticket for only $20 go to www.fmnzfoodinc.org.nz.

Show support for your local food producers and have a great night out at the same time.

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Fwd: Farmers Markets World-wide pledge

Monday, 24 August 2009 11:43

Farmers' market leaders from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Great Britain meeting at the 3rdNational Australian Farmers' Market Conference in Victoria this week, pledged today to establish and uphold standards for farmers' markets and to create a platform for the exchange of information and best practice that will support the global, sustainable development of the farmers' market movement. From left: Rita Exner, Chris Fortune, Miranda Sharp, Gareth Jones, Darlene Wolnick, Sophie McNeill, Richard McCarthy The group will initiate an open forum and invites local food producers, market organisers and supporters to participate in positive exchanges that will help to improve local economies and communities through farmers' markets, and provide greater access to locally produced food for all.   FARMA's Gareth Jones was among the speakers at the conference. Others included Richard McCarthy from Crescent City farmers' market in New Orleans, USA, whose experiences with Hurricane Katrina four years ago mirrored those of the population around Melbourne during 'Black Saturday's' forest fires last summer. The organisers and speakers at the event took the opportunity to formalise future relations with a communique highlighting the urgent need for a rebalancing and relocalising of food around the globe in the interests of reducing carbon emissions and improving diet, livelihoods and the environment.

Relaxing Day in the Sun

Sunday was another beautiful day in Hamilton. Pete came with his guitar and sung beautifully. The customers we getting right into the music, fresh food, and hot coffee.

What a great atmoshpere, everyone was relaxed, happy, and having a great time.

Beautiful Weather brings out the people

We had a magnificent weekend this weekend. Plenty of sunshine.

In Cambridge on Saturday we moved out into the sun and what a difference - we were warm, everyone was enjoying thier hot coffees and cornish pasties.

An enjoyable day for all.

FMNZ 2009 Market Managers Forum, Hamilton 22nd-24th June

2009 Market Managers Forum 

The Market Managers Forum is a chance for managers from around the country to get together and share ideas, tools, solutions to issues, and to network with others, so that managers can feel comfortable sharing ideas with each other in the future.  There will be guest speakers from America and Australia, information from FMNZ, and time to problem solve on any issues that are common to farmers' markets.    To be held June 22^nd to 24^th, 2009, the forum will be based at Pirongia Forest Park Lodge, in Pirongia near Hamilton.  Food will be provided, and alcohol will only be permitted on the final evening.  For more information email kerryn at secretary@farmersmarkets.org.nz or visit www.farmersmarkets.org.nz

Cost: $150 per person, plus the cost of travel, - this has been heavily subsidised by our buy local funding and in addition part of your travel costs will be reimbursed, so please bring your receipts.  

You will be required to do a short presentation about you & your market, so please come prepared  (see manager presentation below). 

Please fill out the following form and return by 12^th June with payment to

Farmers' Markets New Zealand Inc,

C/- Kerryn Jensen

15 Fergusson St

Hamilton East, 3216

Hamilton

 

Market Managers Forum RSVP

Name: _________________________________________

Contact number: _________________________________

Name of FM: ____________________________________________________________________

Any dietary requirements?__________________________________________________________

Any special personal requirements we need to be aware of?

________________________________________________________________________________

Any medical requirements? Understandings that you will bring with you any prescribed medication and inform the co-ordinator of how to use the medication, if required in emergency.

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

Do you require pick up from the airport? YES / NO

Which airport? ___________________________________________________________________

Please provide details of flight: _______________________________________________________ 

This Lodge is a DOC reserve and the following conduct must be adhered to:

Manager Presentation

Instructions:

Use the Pecha Kucha principle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha ) - 20 slides of 20 secs each. – this limits you to 6mins 40sec.

You may prepare the power point presentation yourself, or use a generic presentation we have prepared, but please use the sample power point presentation as a guide for what to include. 

You will also be required to fill out the Market Profile form which also includes this detail, but is for reference during the conference.  

Be prepared to answer any Questions from your fellow managers

 

 

Bring this page with you –and pin it up on our map of NZ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

(Market Photo)

(Market Manager Photo) 
 
 
 
 

• Year market opened

 

• Market Name:

 

• Market Manager name:

 

• Location/Venue:

 

• Open Days & times:

 

• Stallholder No on database:

 

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Chris Fortune
(03) 579 3599 Home

021 935 995 Mobile

www.mfm.co.nz (marlborough farmers market)
www.farmersmarkets.org.nz
www.chrisfortune.co.nz

www.chrisfortunerecipes.blogspot.com
www.marlboroughcommunitygarden.blogspot.com

News From Coroglen Farmers Market

My name is Kevin.

 I run / manage the Coroglen farmers Market with my friend Fiona.

Last friday the two of us travelled over the 309 road to catch up with Ashley who runs the Coromandel Town Farmers Market on the other side of the peninsula, and to also check out the towns Community garden.

I have to say Coromandel town market looks GREAT! 

Clean , hygienic , well presented, set up on the street frontage of a lovely restaurant called The Pepper Tree. We bought some seedlings and some macadamia treats and caught up with old friends. 

The community garden interests me as we have been given the go ahead to develop our own community garden on the spare land behind our community hall where we hold our Coroglen market each sunday.

A farmers market and a community garden together i feel is a "marriage made in heaven"....a perfect combination.

We close our market on Queens Birthday for the winter and reopen on Labor weekend. The next four months will be busy for us developing our market / community garden. We close on a high note after a very busy and successful season and we all look forward to reopening refreshed and full of energy.

Of course......... we have some stallholders who would like to trade on through the winter but the 'majority' favor a break. Our feeling is that after our hard work building up our market over spring summer and autumn..........we are better off shutting completely for winter although i confess i  personally can see it from both sides of the argument.

Because many of us will be 'on-site' over the winter months gardening we still have the option of selling direct from our vehicles for those that want to and for those who have produce coming on strong. As you are all aware gardening and food production here in the Coromandel can be just as productive as spring summer .

I personally favor winter gardening/growing as i find i have less pests to deal with especially the with the brassica family. 

Fiona is our IT expert and in between her full time jobs is busy coding our complete web site.

At present all we have up is a welcoming page but we hope to be up and running fully before we reopen.

In the meantime here is a link to our welcome page at coroglenfarmersmarket.co.nz

http://www.coroglenfarmersmarket.co.nz/Welcome.html