The legendary Coopers Shoot Tomatoes
Sometimes you come across a tomato so perfect – bright red the whole way through, flesh taut and almost seedless – that you ...read more
Sometimes you come across a tomato so perfect – bright red the whole way through, flesh taut and almost seedless – that you ...read more
Some look like coral, delicate pastel pinks and yellows, others like loosely furled flowers, or speckled like butterfly wings, the whole arrangement, at ...read more
McMAHON’S APPLES Vanessa – favourite apple Pink Lady – has a wide white smile which dazzles each of the steady troop of customers ...read more
Beautiful bountiful basil, that’s what’s blooming at the moment. I hardly need Pam Morrow to tell me this though: for someone as disastrous ...read more
Maybe the sort of people who frequent farmers’ markets are a different breed to the rest of the general population when it comes ...read more
‘People are coming back to meat.’ I’m chatting to Nick Tallas, manager of new-kid-on-the-block Conscious Ground, purveyor of grass-fed beef and pork. I’d ...read more
At the Gourmet Salad Hut customers come and go, picking up a bag of mixed leaves or a jar of pesto, but it’s ...read more
Her mantra is ‘a little bit of this and not much of anything’. Glenyce Creighton, one-woman show, is chatting to me at her ...read more
I’d often come across jaggery, lovely word, in Indian recipes and was aware it was a sweetener. Except, after talking to Aner Yeffet, ...read more
It’s their fifth year of offering porridge at the farmers’ markets – and I can understand how Bronwyn and Andrew have what the ...read more