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Farmer's Markets
Hammersmith - St Paul's Green. Every Thursday. Tel: 020 8392 0631
Parson's Green - Lady Margaret School. Every Saturday. 1pm - 5pm.
Tel: 020 8392 0631
Everything at the farmers' market is grown or produced by the seller. No one is allowed to sell another farmer's produce. When you buy a processed food, such as cheese, sausage or apple juice, the farmer not only makes the product, but also grows the apples, rears the goats for cheese and the pigs for sausage.
All the farms at London's Farmers' Markets are within 100 miles of the M25. That means produce is fresher than at the supermarket. It hasn't been sprayed with preservatives or bruised in shipping. Because produce isn't wrapped in plastic, you can touch and smell the fruit and veg.
Expect unusual varieties. Our farmers grow 122 different English apple varieties. Another grows heirloom tomatoes, another white courgettes and striped beetroot. At the supermarket, greengrocer and street market, all the vendor can tell you about the produce is that it came from a wholesale market. At the farmers' market, the farmer will tell you how it was grown, how it tastes and how to cook it.
IN SEASON JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER
This is peak season. In addition to the spring crops, look for slicing tomatoes, broad beans, beetroots, courgette en fleur, parsnips, sweet peppers, onions, runner beans, several flavours of basil, parsley, cut flowers, yellow and purple French beans, round carrots, cauliflower, swiss chard, aubergines, and kohlrabi. 'Everbearing' strawberries are still in season, as well as red raspberries and currants. In August, blackberries come in. If it's been a hot and sunny summer, the earliest eating apples, Discovery come to market as early as August. By September, most apples and pears are coming in.
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