Gasworks Farmers Market

It doesn’t take much to keep me from a Farmers market – not even Melbourne’s crappy rainy weather. Anyway, this particular one is held on the third Saturday of the month between 8.30am – 1pm at the Gasworks Arts Park in Port Melbourne. I love to sample wonderful homegrown products and chat to farmers/artisans/producers.

Check out these heritage pumpkins! They look great…but I wonder how they taste?

I finally sampled a lime cupcake from Life’s Sweet. I’ve spied this company at most of the foodie events in the last few months, but the $4.00 price tag was a slight dissuasion. Alas, this time I crumbled. I could not resist the tantalising frosting and the lovely smile of the lass behind the bench. Anyway, the cupcake was vanilla, quite dense and tooth sticky. The frosting was waxy – but I guess it needs to be for preservation reasons. Anyway the website is rather cool. Make sure you read the about us section, ie. their vision and inspiration. Quite an interesting read.

Also purchased some chocolate bread from Solebake. Made with dutch cocoa and chocolate bits, it was really moorish whilst not being sweet. It would be perfect toasted with some marscapone or ricotta cheese and mascerated strawberries. Yummm. Unfortunately I didn’t have any of these items at hand, so peanut butter was a worthy substitution.

I was also pleased to see some lovely jams / chutneys / relishes. I didn’t buy any though, as I have a cupboard full of my own attempts. Ahem.