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July 18, 2010
We have started to shop for fruit and vegetable at the Farmers Markets in Willunga and Victor Harbor for fresh regional food when we are down in Victor Harbor. I find it the shopping more enjoyable than in the fruit and vegetable shops and the farmers are getting a better deal.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Suzanne, Farmers market, Willunga, SA
These community based farmers markets are very successful in South Australia, and I would have thought that the local Councils would support them as they bring people into the area and help to foster local production.
Not so in Victor Harbor. There the local council only sees the successful farmers market as a way of making money. They propose to increase the rents of the stalls from $90 to $250 a week and to demand a $3000 contribution to the upgrade of the supply of power to Grosvenor Gardens. Instead of supporting the community based farmers market and nurturing it , the small traders who run the local council are placing impediments in the way.
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