Summer is coming, the weather is well and truly changing, and we're starting to see the cool weather produce go out of season (goodbye brussel spouts) and new season fruit and vegetables arrive at the market.
Here's a full guide to seasonality in Victoria at Melbourne Farmers' Markets
Summer seasonality at Melbourne Farmers Market
We asked the MFM team, 'What are they most looking forward to this summer?'
Claire - Tomato Season, superficially tomatoes from Oz Fresh Herbs and Produce, and summer fits to keep cool.
Oz Fresh Herbs & Produce summer cherry tomato selection
Bek - I’m looking forward to juicy cherries (Cathedral Cherries) and peaches (Harcourts Orchards) and melons (Save our soil) and that sweet lil window where I can get some Apricots! (Organic delights)
Warm evenings with friends with some ribs, (Brooklands Free Range Farm) Brisket (Bass Coast) or even corn on the cob (Days Walk Farm) in the smoker. And of course a few cheeky bevvies… (Mog Brew, Subtle Tea, Wonki)
Picnics that consist of a fresh baguette, (Back Alley Bakes) a thick layer of butter, (Madeleine butter) or carp pate (Obelix & Co), an array of seasonal dips (Oumaias kitchen), and of course lots of cheese (Long Paddock, Dreaming Goat) and berries! (Sensational Berries, Bennys Berries).
Cherries from Cathedral Cherries in Taggerty
Erin - I'm planning plenty of bike rides, iced coffees, and adding stone fruit to the cheeseboard this summer.
Celeste - This summer I will be baking lots of zucchini bread, making mango ice cream and miso glazed eggplant and eating all of the stone fruit, raspberries and blackberries!
Anne - I’m looking forward to warm yellow-flesh peaches picked fresh from a neighbour’s tree; to fire-engine red tomatoes tossed with bocconcini; to juicy strawberries, intended for jam but eaten instead straight from a juice-stained box.
Peaches from last Summer
Ray - Basketball! Beaches! Hawaiian plate lunches! and peaches!
Fresh farmers market haul