This year, Carriageworks Christmas Farmers Market is focused on food, produce, artisanal gifts, and will offer a workshop with Cornersmith co-founder and pickling queen, Alex Elliott-Howery, who will teach how to pickle cherries in two different styles. Participants can make and take home cherries in a boozy syrup for a grown-up treat, and a classic pickled cherry that is perfect with Christmas ham.
Carriageworks Christmas Farmers Market offers Sydneysiders the opportunity to buy fresh seasonal produce and food-related gifts, ranging from oysters, ham and seafood, to fresh fruit, flowers and vegetables, cheeses and Christmas puddings sourced from some of the best producers in New South Wales.
Mike McEnearney, Creative Director of Carriageworks Farmers Market and acclaimed Australian chef said, “Carriageworks Christmas Market is the perfect place to buy food and gifts from local and regional NSW producers. Currently, NSW is suffering one of the worst droughts in history. So….choose food and gifts that will really make a difference and join Carriageworks and the Farmers Market in support NSW regional producers and rural communities. BuyRegional this Christmas.”
Visitors to the Carriageworks Christmas Farmers Market will be able to purchase fresh produce from their favourite regular stallholders from the weekly Carriageworks Farmers Markets including:
- Fresh seafood from Josh Niland’s Fish Butchery and oysters from Mimosa Rock Oysters
- Christmas hams from Linga Longa Farm and Melanda Park
- Seasonal fruits including cherries, mangoes, nectarines and peaches from Kurrawong Organics, and Drive in Orchards
- Poultry from Thirlmere Poultry Supply, and eggs from Hilltops Free Range Eggs and Holbrook Paddock Eggs
- Festive drinks by Freeman Vineyards, Wildflower Brewing & Blending, Hunter and the Harp, Demoiselle Distillery, Headlands Distilling Co and Seedlip.
- Flowers from Jonima Flowers and Mayfarm Flowers
- Christmas treats such as Christmas puddings, mince tarts and gingerbread from Flour and Stone,Nonie’s Foods and Gumnut Chocolates.
As well as produce there will be food-themed gift stalls with unique gifting of ceramics, cookbooks, aprons and more. Guest stallholders at the Carriageworks Christmas Market in 2019 are: Provider Store (ethically sourced items for the kitchen), Our Festive Puds, Batch # (Ceramics), T Totaler, Continental Deli, Poetry Fine Foods, Saga (Andy Bowdy deserts), Headlands Distilling Co, Esti Garcia, Profiterole Project, Apron Studio, Country Women’s Association, Seedlip (non-alcoholic cocktail inspiration, Samantha Robinson, The Oat Life, Darlington Public School, Splendid Wren Ceramics and The Potter x The Clay, Laughing Bird, Oz Harvest and Kristen Allan Cheesemaker.
The 2019 Carriageworks Christmas Farmers Market follows on from the success of the past three Christmas Markets since 2015. It builds upon the much-loved weekly Carriageworks Farmers Market, recognised as one of Australia’s leading Artisan farmers markets, that welcomes more than 4,000 people every Saturday and supports over 120 local and regional producers from throughout New South Wales.
Entry to the Christmas Farmers Market is free of charge. Tickets to the cherry pickling workshops can be purchased via the Carriageworks website.
More Information about buying regional this Christmas.
For further information and interviews please contact Julia Barnes, julia@articulatepr.com.au 0402 678 589 or Kym Elphinstone, kym@articulatepr.com.au 0421 106 139.