Be in to WIN a $150 voucher to Your Local Farmer’s Market!

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National Farmers' Market Week is back from March 9-17 for its sixth annual celebration of the vital role farmers’ markets play in the nation’s food system and in feeding their local communities.

Kiwis who are not regular marketgoers are being encouraged to experience this direct link between farmer and consumer and talk to growers about the provenance of their produce while visiting their local farmers’ market with 26 around the motu, from Whangarei in the North to Invercargill in the South.

There are many benefits to visiting your local farmer’s market:

• access to in-season produce which is often cheaper, fresher, lasts longer, and tastes better
• the availability of many kitchen staples, like seasonal vegetables and fruit, meat, fish, eggs, dairy produce, and bread
• prices that can be cheaper than the supermarkets 

Farmers’ markets are the perfect local shopping destination providing the freshest, most local regional food to communities. They can be found across New Zealand in both rural and urban locations and every purchase supports a small business and celebrates local food. 

National Farmers’ Markets Week is championed by volunteer organisation Farmers’ Markets NZ and features many special events spread across various markets over the two weekends of March 9-17.

Pictured: Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Market, Hastings.

Those special events include: Bay of Islands Farmers’ Markets (Kerikeri and Paihia)- market produce giveaways; Auckland’s Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market: 10am tour of the market on March 10 and 17; Waikato Farmers’ Market (Cambridge and Hamilton) produce goodie bags; Gisborne Farmers’ Market: a feijoa eating competition and kid’s colouring contest; Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Market and the Napier Urban Farmers’ Market: an autumn produce scavenger hunt for the kids, prizes and other activities; Nelson Farmers’ Market: providing information and recipes at the market stalls on how to preserve the autumn harvest; Otago Farmers’ Market: free fruit for the kids and produce goodie bags, market chef demonstrating cooking with local produce and a produce goodie bag giveaway.   

For more on Farmers’ Market New Zealand see farmersmarkets.org.nz or follow them on Instagram and Facebook @farmersmarketsnewzealand. For information on all 26 farmers’ markets nationally, see the list here.  

And for your chance to win a $150 voucher for any one of their 26 farmers’ markets, enter your details below: