Northside Produce Market December 21 Highlights

Tis the season for stone fruit....

such as Doughnut peaches at Prickle Hill Produce, Emerald Blush plums at Banana Bar and the organically grown at Kurrawong Organics. Yuri at Produce from Orange tells us that the Mariposa plum is making an early appearance due to the hotter climate.

This Northside Produce Market is perfectly timed for your Christmas fare, from the freshest of produce to your pick of beef, lamb, chicken, ham and seafood, both fresh and smoked. Choose your cheeses made from goat, sheep, cow and/or buffalo milk.

From bread to baked Chrissy treats, puddings and sweets, we’ve got you covered. If you’re after the traditional, boiled-in-the-cloth pud, go no further than Pudding Lane. If you’re after something traditional - Italian style, Nonie’s Panpepato is perfect.

Then there are beverages! From a chilled Ginello to Azteca’s fabulous Margarita mixers to a bottle of bubbles bringing cheer. For the morning pick me up, a bag of The Little Coffee or Toby’s Estate coffee beans is a must or one of Neo Naturally Australia’s tea blends.

Who wouldn’t want to find in their Chrissy stocking, a Gail Clayton hand carved spurtle, a beautiful bowl created by Wentworth Falls Pottery or a pair of Beautiful Upcycled Designs earrings made from used coffee pods and a cookbook, lovingly selected by Food & Words.

When needing some time out from the silly season, take a night off and enjoy a mezze of Middle Eastern dishes by Nude Foodz or an award winning Pastabilities meal of Zucchini, Ricotta and Mint ravioli. Meanwhile, keep your immunity boosted with Sisuu’s Tonic.

As I reflect on Northside‘s 25^th year, I realise how you inspire us with your enthusiastic support of well grown and made, food and beverages, which takes the market into its 26^thyear, as of our first market on January 18^th in 2025. How fortunate are we to have such great producers at Northside.

We kick start the New Year with our FREE one hour - Kids Only ‘Behind the Scenes’ Northside Produce Market tours. Our former tour curator and host, Tawnya Bahr has carefully passed on the Tour hat to the Elena Duggan, who you may know as the winner of MasterChef Australia – season 8.

We thank North Sydney Council for supporting the Market tours and the Check In & Tune Up - bicycle stall. These two programmes are much used and appreciated by the community and personally, it is a lovely experience seeing the positive outcomes for the attendees.

I look forward to seeing you this Saturday morning, with your keep cup of course and I wish everyome a safe and happy end to the year.

May we all achieve good, sustainable outcomes in 2025.

With warm regards, Lisa.

Lisa MacDonald - Northside Produce Market Coordinator