Butchers around the country are concerned that people who sell meat at farmers markets aren't facing the same scrutiny as butchers in shops.

Farmers’ Markets Ontario (FMO) has proposed a new certification program for local farmers and farmers’ markets. The ‘Certified Local Farmers’ Market’ is being proposed to help create a fair and level playing

If given a choice, the vast majority of Maryland consumers -- 76 percent -- say they are more likely to buy produce that is identified as having been grown by a state farmer.

SYDNEY, Australia - Consumers need to be aware that not all of the produce they buy at farmer's markets is truly home grown. There are middlemen who pose as primary producers

Farmers' Markets New Zealand, representing 40 markets nationwide, received a $96,000 allocation in the last funding round but has yet to sign on the dotted line. Spokesman Chris Fortune said the Buy Kiwi Made concept fitted well into what farmers' markets were trying to do, but the fund wasn't for everyone. "The criteria's fairly strict, I wouldn't see it suiting a lot of other organisations."

There's a long history of co-operation in the rural economy. Our biggest corporate and exporter Fonterra is, after all, still a co-operative. This spirit of collaborative business is making a comeback in the big cities, in the form of the farmers' market .....

In the last few years farm shops and farmers markets have had the opportunity to promote fresh organic produce and as a result of this strategy have seen a significant growth in sales. But, it is a new year and retailing is a fast moving industry to be in.

The Hamilton Farmers Market featured on National Radio’s Country Life programme last week. It was a fabulous story about how the two year old market has grown and is offering great opportunities for small growers. To listen click here

Food is life and the purveyance of it a livelihood. The nostalgic vision of viable farmland, abundant orchards, and rows of healthy, edible plants stretching up and over a hillside..........................

Customers at some ultra-trendy markets in the capital are being duped by mass-produced stock passed off as organic or home-grown produce, according to a leading growers' organisation

Fancy a pumpkin and chocolate cupcake or perhaps a venison sausage or two? Food with a strong Southland flavour will be tempting .......

CELEBRITY chef and ITV’S I’m a Celebrity---Get Me Out of Here contestant, Antony Worrall-Thompson, will sample Berkshire’s local produce........

Momentum for country of origin food labels is growing after a major food retailer announced yesterday it would ...........

Homemade foods will be allowed back in Tennessee farmers’ markets, including the popular Rutherford County Farmer’s Market that operates at Cannonsburgh from June through October.

And let us hope we don't have to wait until next year's Savour New Zealand for a Friday farmers' market in Cathedral Square. Yes, it rained. No, there wasn't a cast of thousands present, but this is such a good idea it should happen at least once a month. Please.........

Otago could be among the best cuisine regions in the world, given time, Farmers’ Markets New Zealand South Island representative Chris Fortune said at the weekend........

PRIME MUNCHER: Chris Fortune shares a berry dish with Prime Minister Helen Clark.

Not long ago I had an apple problem. Wavering in the produce section of a Manhattan grocery store, I was unable to decide between an organic apple and a nonorganic  ......

The best and freshest home grown or home made produce is likely to be on sale in Ashburton next year, when a regular ......

Fresh food bought direct from a local grower. It sounds perfect, but there's more to the growing farmers' market movement than meets the ......

A young woman in Hawera has started a small business with no capital outlay. She does it in .........

Some Farmers' Markets aren't as local as you think.  Kathy Webb stands in a group of 20 people in the dining room of her ...........

Market researcher Jon Carapiet said that unlike Britain, New Zealand had not experienced a major food scare such as mad cows disease, which acted to change peoples attitudes towards industrial-style food production

NZFM executive member and reputable chef Chris Fortune will be a key not speaker at the next local meeting and ........

Food miles are being used as a weapon against NZ farm exports to Europe.  NZ trade officials have said concerns from the enviromental lobby .....

Dana Jacobs began shopping at local stands in the area several years ago as a protest.......

Southern Farmers' Markets are being investigated.  The potential for a regular farmers market to be held in Southland    .........

On a recent Saturday morning the action at the downdown Santa Barbara Farmers market is absolutley dizzying.  A line of cars 13 deep stacks down the block waiting to park for this paradise of product

It turns out that Jean Anthèlme Brillat-Savarin was right in 1825 when he wrote in his magnum opus, The Physiology of Taste, that "the destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they are fed."

Farmer's markets are touted by the faithful as the best thing since sliced bread and the rest of us are cottoning on.  The grow it, bake it, or breed it, brigade are sprouting up faster than mushrooms in a bag of organic potting mix. 

WANGANUI’S River Traders’ Trust is hoping to blaze a trail for other markets on the issue of food safety. The big question is whether market food should comply with the same hygiene rules as restaurant food.

Lesley Wilson talks to the first chairman of the NZ Farmers’ Market Association

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Hospital experiment putting locally grown produce on patients' plates 19 hospitals in Northern California will find cherry tomatoes with their chicken sandwiches and dinner salads, and will unwittingly take part

Wairarapa produce growers are the latest to consider setting one up.

IN 2004, Nina Planck, who had just been dismissed as director of the New York City Greenmarkets, wrote in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times: "Perhaps it is time Greenmarket itself had some competition." ...

Under a gloriously blue, sunny spring sky the 2006 Brockville Farmers' Market sprouted to life Saturday morning...

A chance for farmers to get a deeper look into their productivity is on offer at the upcoming Farmers' Market New Zealand Incorporated Conference to be held in Hawke's Bay next month...

The Nelso Provincial Farmers' Market at Founders Heritage Park opens on Sunday with 21 stalls...

Annie Ennor, Staveley, sells free-range eggs at the Lyttelton farmers' market directly to the publicFarmers’ markets are sprouting up throughout the country and it seems they are as much a hit with consumers as they are with small-time producers.

In response to the growing interest in local food systems New Zealand Farmers’ Markets Association supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is running a series of 8 ‘Fresh Thinking’ workshops...