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For your convenience we have Eftpos, ample parking and toilet facilities.
There's nothing fresher or finer than a barrow load of food from The Hawke's Bay Farmers Market!
Shop for a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, bread, eggs, pickles and preserves straight from the producer.
Thousands of locals and busloads of visitors soak up the friendly, relaxed atmosphere of a traditional village market every Sunday morning.
Hot freshly roasted coffee and a choice of breakfast fare feed the body while the senses take in the live music, the smells of cooking and the produce so fresh it looks straight back at you.
Meet the grower, producer or maker and talk with them about their products. See touch, smell and taste the goods, then buy knowing that they are fresh from the source.
MARKET NEWS
Easter Market – at Easter weekend the Hastings Farmer’s Market will be held on two days – Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.
Holly Bacon are starting soon— possibly this weekend—keep an eye open for them. Orchard Store are back in with more corn and maybe table grapes.
Golden Queens are now available - check out the fruit suppliers around the Market. Tomatoes, capsicums and chillies are in full production - all varieties, colours and flavours.
Weekly Shop
Look Autumn berries and autumn fruit abound now. Look for raspberries and blackberries, Nashi pears, Royal Gala apples, Omega plums, herb & garlic cheese (Hohepa), pumpkin seed & cheese round
and bacon & cheese round (Olive Branch), butter beans, pak choy, fresh coriander
Do sample the wares as you wander around and if you’re not too sure about what’s on offer, please ask the vendor. Our vendors are passionate about what they grow, make and sell.
The Market is fortunate to have a talented group of buskers, but they are not employed by the market so a show of appreciation and a coin or two is always welcome!
The buskers for the next few weeks are:
7-Mar George Smith
14-Mar Savornine (Jeff Reid)
21-Mar Amanda Johnston
28-Mar Accoustic Rendevous. (Ralph)
This week’s sponsor is Elmwood Table Grapes
Kirsty and Alan Daly bought Elmwood Grapes in November last year. Kirsty is bubbling over with enthusiasm about this new venture, admitting that she knew very little about growing grapes, but totally committed to her product. She and Alan are rapidly becoming experts thanks to wonderful support from the previous owners Barbara and Lloyd Stokes.
Elmwood Grapes grow only table grapes and sell most of their grapes locally. This year’s bumper harvest is ripening about two weeks later than usual as the grapes wait for the Sun to sweeten them.
The earliest variety is Buffalo—a very sweet, dark grape. It will be followed by July Muscat, Italia (a large green grape), Cardinal and Muscat Hamburg as the season progresses. Elmwood grapes are fantastic, sweet and fully flavoured. They will only be available until May. So try them now..
Food of the Week - Coffee
The age-old beverage, coffee, has heavily influenced history and mankind.It is known the world over as a stimulant, and many people are dependant on coffee stay alert for work or study. Were coffee to suddenly disappear, lots of people would be walking around with headaches due to caffeine withdrawal!
On the other hand, there are also many people who are dependant on coffee because they make their living out of making and selling coffee, and a future without coffee would see millions left unemployed, and probably an economy crash.
Coffee-making has become an art,and coffee is always in fashion – it has blended seamlessly into every era since it was first created, and provides an excellent excuse to socialise.
Without coffee, the world would be very different indeed.
PLEASE PHONE (06) 974 8931 OR EMAIL info@foodhawkesbay.co.nz
We welcome coach parties and provide a short narrated introduction to our market.
