Eat Local markets
A great summary from my friend Kristy lam about the new Friday night markets at the National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. They’ve been running for two weeks now and I expect they will get bigger every week over coming months!
I had hours of late night shopping a head of me but that didn’t stop me from ducking over to the Botanic Gardens to check out their inaugural Eat Local market, where they encourage people to buy local and eat local by offering chemical and GMO free produce from the Riverina, Tumut and the Canberra region. As I drove through the front gates, I was directed to the car park on the left hand side which was a short stroll to the markets. I parked and figured I didn’t have to pay for parking because it was sort of after hours (after 5pm) and I could only stay for a short while.
I was there just in time to see Costa Georgiadis officially cut the ‘ribbon’ to the inaugural Eat Local market with help from some children.
I was limited to what I could purchase because I wasn’t really home over…
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