Food Swaps
Come along and share fresh produce from your garden or something freshly made from your kitchen. The kind of things people bring along are: leafy greens and parsley when they are in season, silver beet seedlings, seeds, worm juice, loquats and hot chillies, and lots of other fruits and veggies that they have grown themselves. Alternatively you could bring along chutneys, jams, preserves, baking and sour dough starter. So if your garden is looking tired, or you don’t have a garden but like to talk about food bring something you have made, it will most likely get eaten as we are chatting.
There are 4 food swaps in the City of Darebin:
| Name | Where | When |
| Regent | 4 Robinson Road, Reservoir | 1st Sunday of every month, 2 – 3 pm |
| Reservoir | In front Reservoir Library, 23 Edwardes Street | 3rd Saturday of every month, 10 – 11 am |
| Fairfield | St. Andrew’s Church, Cnr Gillies St & Duncan St | 3rd Saturday of every month, 11 am – 12 noon |
| Preston / Thornbury | Cnr of Penders and High St, Thornbury (in front of Thornbury Picture Theatre) | 4th Saturday of every month, 11 am – 12 noon |
Contact for Regent Food Swap: friendsofregent@gmail.com
Contact for Reservoir, Fairfield and Thornbury Food Swap: transitiondarebin@gmail.com / Facebook pages here or here
Farmers Markets
Alphington Farmers Market – accredited by Melbourne Farmers’ Markets and sells seasonal fruit & vegetables, free range pork, beef, lamb, goat, chooks & eggs, milk straight from the dairy, seedlings, olives & olive oil and nuts.
Where: Melbourne Innovation Centre, 2 Wingrove St, Alphington
When: Every Sunday from 6 May, 2018. 9am – 1pm
Cost: Gold coin donation
Bundoora Park Farmers Market – Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Where: Bundoora – Plenty Road
When: 1st Saturday of every month 8am – 1pm
Preston Market – Fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, poultry and deli
Where: Preston – Cramer Street and Murrray Road
When: Wednesday 8am – 3pm, Thursday 8am – 6pm, Friday 8am – 8pm, Saturday 8am – 3 pm
CERES Organic Market – Local organic fruit and vegetables
Where: Brunswick East – Corner Robert and Stewart Streets
When: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9am – 2pm