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Christmas is almost upon us again! We will be at the following markets over the Christmas period…
Britomart
- Saturday 17 December, 8:30am-12:30pm http://britomart.org/whats-on/britomart-christmas-market
- Last market for 2011 – Saturday 24 December, 8:30am-12:30pm
- First market for 2012 – Saturday 14 January, 8:30am-12:30pm
Howick
- Saturday 17 December, 8:30am-12:30pm
- Last market for 2011, Saturday 24 December, 8:30am-12:30pm
- First market for 2012 – Saturday 7 January, 8:30am-12:30pm
Mairangi Bay
- Saturday 17 December, 8:00am-12:00pm
- Last market for 2011, Saturday 24 December, 8:00am-12:00pm
- First market for 2012, Saturday 14 January, 8:00am-12:00pm
Clevedon
- Sunday 18 December, 8:30am-12:00pm
- Last market for 2011, Friday 23 December, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
- First market for 2012, Sunday 15 January, 8:30am-12:00pm
St Heliers - Tamaki Ex-Services Association Hall & Carpark, Cnr Turua St & Polygon Rd, St Heliers Bay Village, St Heliers, Auckland
- Sunday 18 December, 10:00am-3:00pm
Thank you to The List for writing this great review about us!
Fresh produce you can’t beat
Producing a wide range of herbs and produce, some all year round and others depending on the season, Clevedon Herbs and Produce are stallholders at a number of markets. These include the Clevedon Village Farmers , Mairangi Bay Farmers, the Britomart City Farmers and the Howick Village. Started as a supplier of Hydroponic fancy lettuce to the Auckland produce markets, then direct to supermarkets, a change in focus saw a wider range of products to farmers markets.
Products now include a wide variety of lettuce, beans, beetroot, carrots, fennel bulb, kale, turnips, watercress, pak choy plus others.
Herbs include basil, chervil, coriander, lemon grass, tarragon, marjoram, sage and thyme.
The products are nicely presented, always fresh, and have that old fashioned home grown flavour and are well priced. The buckets of assorted lettuce and herbs make great gifts or are ideal if you want to grow your own but have limited space of time.
Click here to take you to the review on The List’s website.
What a busy weekend we had at the markets over Labour weekend! Below are some photo’s of our stand at the Clevedon Farmers market (also one shot of the view from our stand across the newly sown grassed area in the middle of the market). We love our new premises!
We still have plenty of tomato plants and various herb and vegetable seedlings available for sale at the markets so make sure you prepare your garden and come along and see us at either the Howick Village market, Mairangi Bay Village Market or Britomart Farmers Market on Saturday or the Clevedon Farmers Market on Sunday.
Just letting you all know that we will be at our Saturday markets over Easter weekend – Britomart, Mairangi Bay and Howick.
There is NO Clevedon Village Farmers market on Sunday 24 April 2011.
We hope that everyone has a lovely Easter break!
Make sure you come along to the extra Christmas markets next week…
WED 22 DEC, CLEVEDON MARKET 4PM-7PM
THUR 23 DEC, HOWICK MARKET 4PM-7PM
FRI 24 DEC, MAIRANGI BAY MARKET 8AM-12PM
If you would like to order your your herbs and/or produce for pick up at one of the above markets then please email us http://www.clevedonherbsproduce.com/contact/
See you all next week!
Phil has gone crazy with his tomato plants this year!!! We have had them available at the markets for the last couple of weeks but this weekend we will have an abundance!
It is the perfect time to be planting them and this year we have two varieties available. Minibelle – a cherry tomato variety and Zola – a beef steak type variety. We have chosen these after many years of testing different varieties including heirlooms. These two varieties seem to be the easiest and most low maintenance to grow. Both are dwarfing varieties so no stringing or lateraling!!! YAY!!! All you need to do is keep them watered everyday and feed them every so often (Nitrosol or something similar is perfect). However for those of you that like to potter away in the garden stringing and laterling we will have six other varieties available from Labour weekend.
We keep them in large pots on the deck right beside the bbq along with a couple of pots of basil (we will have basil available from Labour weekend – a bit too cold in Auckland still, our seeds have just germinated!). Yum! Imagine the meals that you can make!!!
You will need to allow about 1m2 around the pot or garden as the laterals will shoot out to this area. The plants in our experience produce heaps of fruit.
Come and see us at Mairangi Bay, Clevedon, Britomart and Howick this weekend. Feel free to ask questions as we will be more that happy to help. Phil will be at the Mairangi Bay and Clevedon markets. He is the tomato expert!!! Check out this link to find out why http://www.clevedonherbsproduce.com/who-we-are/
Here are some photos from last year’s crop’s
Just a quick note to say that we will be at all the markets tomorrow (Howick, Britomart and Mairangi Bay) no matter if it is rain, hail or shine.
The Britomart market will most likely be indoors tomorrow in the Union Fish Building. Our stall will be situated just outside the building. Please see below for more information.
We have been picking and packing all the herbs and produce in torrential rain today! Quite a bit of flooding around the property and the gutters on our original greenhouse which was built in 1984 didn’t cope very well with so much rain. Quite a large puddle or should I say Olympic size swimming pool has appeared! Hopefully it will disappear tomorrow.
Our Grapefruit tree is laden with fruit that have just turned so we will be selling ‘Marmalade Grapefruit’ for the next couple of weeks. The reason why they are ‘marmalade grapefruit’ is because the fruit still has quite a sharp tangy flavour which is perfect for marmalade but not so perfect for eating the fruit as it is.
I had never eaten fennel until we started growing it. Now I can’t get enough of it! Phil’s father would be horrified if he knew we were growing it. He remembers as a child his father refusing to allow his mother to cook it even though it grew wildly around their property in Favona (please note that some wild fennel is poisonous to eat). The aniseed flavour is not everyone’s cup of tea but we love it and it seems to be getting more and more popular at the markets. Some great feedback from customers this weekend about how they served it.
Here is another recipe I found in a Jamie Oliver book. We served it with fresh fish bought from the Howick market.
3 heads of fennel
1 clove of garlic, finely sliced
3 large knobs of butter
2 wine glasses of white wine (or vermouth)
salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 220 C. Remove any discoloured parts of the fennel, then cut the tops off and slice into four from top to root, reserving the leaves. Put all ingredients into a baking dish. Rip off a pieve of grease proof paper, run it under cold water and scrunch it up to make it soft. The place it snugly over and around the fennel, not the actual dish. Cook in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until tender. Scatter with the fennel leaves before serving.