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Discover what fresh South Australian food is all about

Shop for goodies with less food miles at the Adelaide Showground Farmers Market. You really can make a difference!

Come along for a family outing this Sunday. Be inspired! It’s a great way to learn about new foods and flavours. You can try plenty of samples, it's fun and it’s free! You’ll be bound to find something colourful and exciting that you’ve never tasted before.

This is where the real food comes from. And your garden of course. You’ll find fab and easy recipes to cook in our recipe file.

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What’s good to eat now?

Fabulous fruit and vegetables are plentiful at this time of year.

Summer moves into autumn so there are late season stone fruits, berries, melons, figs, grapes, sultanas, and pistachios at the Market.

New season apples and pears are now available. You’ll also find pumpkins, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, capsicums and chillies at the Market and in your vegie garden if you’ve been clever!

What’s new?

Four easy steps to help you make the perfect pizza! Find these delicious ingredients at the Market:

Murray Valley Cheese Company’s Mozzarella and Bocconcini
Patlin Gardens’ Pizza Sauce
Riviera Bakery’s and Flour Power’s fresh pizza dough or pre-cooked bases from Merry Cherry
Fresh herbs and vegies, olives, olive oil and cured meats.

For pizza-making inspiration you name it, you’ll find it at the Market!

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This Sunday 14 March – Chilli Festival

The heat is on! Get into the kitchen with Simon Bryant!

Join Simon our Kids’ Club patron for an action-packed cooking session and make this your right of passage into the world of chillies.

Celebrate the Chilli Festival like a true champion as Simon talks you through the making of sweet chilli sauce and the time-honoured skill of spring roll wrapping.

Please note: This is not for the faint hearted. If you reserve the right to avoid danger, soy sauce will be available as an alternative to the effects of chilli blast.

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Next Sunday 21 March

Culinary Magic with Lee Harrison

Science is all around us; it’s in our food, our homes and at the Farmers Market!

How much science do you think you can find in a mixture of milk, cream, ice and fruit? Whatever the result, it’s probably going to be tasty…

freezing point depression
crystal formation
reaction rates

Join fellow science geeks for a fun and fascinating session as Lee explains the mysteries of food science with some tasty icy concoctions.

Make strawberry ice cream in a bag, pick up ice cubes without touching them and find out why some fruits don’t mix well with milk!

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Last Sunday 7 March

: An abundance of basil in the Edible Garden

Edible Garden with Diana Bickford from Bickleigh Vale Farm

March is the new Spring! It’s the perfect time of year to get your vegies in so dig in here and get the buzz on Autumn gardening.

We’re heading for the Autumn equinox. What’s an equinox?
There are two equinoxes a year, one in March (Autumn) and one in September (Spring). They occur when the sun is positioned directly over the equator, so day and night are in perfect balance with around 12 hours each. The days gradually shorten from 21 March onwards so make the most of the sunlight hours in your garden whilst you can!

We planted rainbow chard in the garden on Sunday ‘cause we love the striking spectrum of colours it creates in the vegie patch! Peas were also popped into peat pots to take home to watch them germinate.

Take a look at the tepees in our Edible Garden; already our telephone peas are 6cm high and sending out dainty tendrils to make the climb up tall bamboo stakes.

If you’re looking for a catchy tune to get you jumping, try a skipping or hand clapping song like this one:

Pease pudding hot
Pease pudding cold
Pease pudding in the pot nine days old
Some like it hot
Some like it cold
Some like it in the pot nine days old

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