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Cooking Fresh for children

The best time to teach children about good nutrition is as early as possible and it’s a lesson that instills healthy habits for life.
With obesity rates on the rise it is important to set a good example and to show your children how tasty good food can be.

To help families get started on the path to healthy eating the Newcastle City Farmer’s Market's Cooking Fresh will hold special shopping and cooking sessions aimed at young children.

Market chef Stephane Pois, from The Art of Wine, has designed a special class just for youngsters which will help develop their knowledge of healthy food.

The class will involve a 20 minute tour of the market where they get to sample some goodies, meet the producers and farmers and head back to a specially built market kitchen to prepare a fresh meal.

The class will be limited to six children for each session and children under 10 years must be accompanied by an adult.
Bookings can be made at the Cooking Fresh kitchen on the village green at the Markets with the first tour at 10am and more scheduled throughout the day between Chef Pois' cooking demonstrations.

More and more bloggers and food writers are visiting the Newcastle City Farmers Market and sharing the experience with their readers.

These are always a great read and it's fun to see the markets through other peoples' eyes so here is an item we stumbled across recently.

A Table For Two first visited the market in November last year, and this wasn't his last either. Sydney-based Billy Law haunts restaurants and markets, takes absolutely wonderful photos and shares his experiences. And he says that Newcastle is now his favourite farmers market!

The Newcastle City Farmers Market has joined Twitter! That's right, you can now follow us and get the scoop on what is happening

Our farmers and producers are continuing on their winning way with plenty more medals awarded at regional and national shows.

The latest is Arc-en-Ciel Trout Farm which grabbed a swag of silver and bronzes at September's Mudgee Fine Food Awards. The winning products are all available from the market every Sunday.

So when you wander past Arc-en-Ciel look out for the silver medalled Smoked Trout Pate and the Whole Hot Smoked Trout or the bronze winning Rainbow Trout Caviar and the Ginger Infused Rainbow Trout Caviar.

The website is growing at the moment so don't forget to check out all the new stallholders in profile pages. To show visitors just what they can expect when they come to visit the market we'll soon have a gallery page up and running so don't be surprised if you see stall holders whipping out their cameras and taking some action shots.

The Entrance Farmers Market is now onboard....

There is a good article written by Allyson Horn "Fresh food feast from farmers' markets" on ABC Rural where Allyson writes about the change in peoples focus on food, how we are more likely to want to know about where the food comes from, just how fresh it is and who grows it. Read the article here.

Allyson Horn is taking on the challenge to eat only local produce from within 160km of Muswellbrook, in the Hunter Valley of NSW. Follow her blog here