Aldna Farms at the Adelaide Showground Farmers Market every fortnight at Site #84

Produce: fresh vegetables and herbs

Contact Details

Alan Williams and Brenda Oakey are the people behind stall Alnda Farms. Find them at sites 83-84 on the Leader St end of the Market. Alnda Farms grow fresh vegetables and herbs at Virginia.

Alan and Brenda have been growing vegetables for a few years, selling at the Barossa, Seven Hills, Stirling and Clare Farmers' Markets. They are especially known for trialling new vegetables.

"Whenever we discover some vegetable we have not heard of, we usually hunt down seeds to give it a try. We like to have something different or unusual for our customers to try," said Brenda.

Alnda Farms' range of produce is too extensive to list here! However some of their rarer vegetables include purple, orange, yellow, red and white carrots, horseradish, jerusalem and globe artichokes, okra, kohl rabi and green, red and savoy cabbage. They also sell a large range of herbs.

Crops are grown out in the open as well as under shadecloth and in plastic houses. Brenda told us that when they bought their farm the land was in poor condition with the soil abused and neglected and the tunnels were falling down. Alnda have since added a huge amount of organic matter to the soil, rescurrected the tunnels and dug out and lined new dams. Alnda Farms are "frugal with water" and use drippers rather than sprinklers to help minimise water usage.

"We concentrate on growing food with flavour rather than size," said Brenda.

For those that are time-poor, Brenda takes orders by email and can have your vegetables and herbs ready for payment and collection when you get to the Market. She also sends out a weekly list of produce that will be available at the Market.  Email alndafarms(at)bigpond.com for orders or to be added to the mailing list.