ONE year on and the Peel Region Farmer’s Market celebrates its anniversary on the 5th December at Pinjarra. A very short drive from Perth, an hour down the freeway, off at Pinjarra Road, past Ravenswood and from 8am to midday every Saturday Peel region producers and farmers such as Lex and Karen Langridge, organic beef, lamb and goat; Hamel Homegrown, organic vegetables; Denning Honey; Choppers Choice, free range eggs; Mark Ucich, organic vegetables; No 66 jams & pickles and much more, can be found. You can select from an abundance of freshly picked seasonal produce while chatting to growers and relaxing over a coffee. With the success of this market a Mandurah Farmers Market will have their inaugural opening on Sunday 13th December at Hall Park (King Carousel) on the western foreshore in Mandurah, cross the old bridge and turn right. This will also be a weekly market, supported by the local council. In the New Year the Peel Farmers Market at Pinjarra is entertaining the idea of rotating the weekly market to other regional towns, such as Waroona, Harvey and Serpentine. They have found that most of the consumers at the markets are coming from outside the Pinjarra region.
To complete the day out why not a drive along the Murray River near the historic Ravenswood Hotel which started out as a wheat farm in 1838.