7 Ways to Cook Up a Sustainable Diet -No Impact Week

September 20, 2011

It’s not just the economic climate that has us shopping close to home. We want, and need, to know what is in our food. Fresh food is increasingly hard to find as supermarkets and the like are finding craftier ways of disguising old and worthless produce. By buying local, we can don’t have transport issues, [...]

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Guest Blog:Homemade Gets Made Over by Lesley McCave

September 16, 2011

This is a copy of an article on takepart.com by Lesley McCave. Link to Article Some chefs claim they started cooking from a very young age, but Yvette van Boven isn’t exaggerating. She was just four years old when she began dabbling in the kitchen. Over the decades, she continued to keep detailed notes, with [...]

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Parasitic pest with your Apple, Sir?

August 31, 2011

We are constantly urged to buy local. Support our farmers. It’ fresher, cheaper, better for you, better for the farmer. Well, here’s another reason to buy local. And to go that step further…take action and let our politicians know through an email or letter that we are not happy. The introduction of pests and parasites [...]

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Are GM Crops a Threat to Our Local Farmers?

August 23, 2011

Farmers face huge problems. If it’s not drought, it’s flood. If it’s not flood, it’s insect or rodent plague. We know they are at the mercy of nature. That is what being a farmer is about. The dominance of large corporations use their buying power to buy low and sell high…we see it in supermarkets [...]

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Camden Produce Markets Supports RSPCA Cupcake Day

August 15, 2011

Cupcake Day for the RSPCA is the biggest bake off in the Southern Hemisphere and involves Cupcake Cooks around Australia baking cupcakes and hosting a Cupcake Party to raise vital funds for the RSPCA. Last year Cupcake Cooks around Australia joined forces to bake thousands of scrumptious cupcakes to help support the services of the [...]

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A and M Flowers are Blooming Wonderful

August 3, 2011

As the recent article in Macarthur Chronicle said : Margrit and Arno provide Good quality flowers at a good price. Which as why so many people keep coming back time and time again to purchase from them at the Camden Produce Market. The tail end of winter is here, everyone is really anticipating the first [...]

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Doesn’t it Make Sense to Buy Local?

July 21, 2011

I don’t know about you, but to me it seems like a lot of good common sense to buy locally, especially when purchasing fresh produce. By produce, I don’t just mean fruit and vegetables. Purchasing my fruit and vegetables from the farmer, I know that if they haven’t grown it themselves, they know the person [...]

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Kerries Jams and Chutneys : Macarthur Chronicle Article May 6 2011

May 19, 2011

What types of jams and chutneys do you make? I make all the berry jams including strawberry, raspberry and blackberry as well as fig jam and chilli jam. Just recently, I have started to make tomato and passionfruit jam which a lot of people have been asking me for and it’s from 1800s recipe my [...]

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Flower Special

May 12, 2011

Come and see Margarita at A & M Flowers (down near Razorback Olives) for this wonderful special. Margarita always has lovely fresh, long lasting flowers and bulbs at fantastic prices, but this is something to check out. This is what Margarita has to say: I have Cornflower plugs selling this Saturday for the very cheap [...]

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Come and Say “hello” to a “Celeb”!

April 20, 2011

Come and say “hello” to our own home grown celebrity, Kerrie from Kerrie’s Larder. Kerrie has won prizes in TWO consecutive shows, our own Camden Show and The Royal Easter Show.

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