How much of your Christmas shopping can you achieve by purchasing from local independent stores, the markets and farmers markets? Have you thought about the impact that keeping your Christmas shopping local can have in terms of injecting money into our local economies, and having that money stay local? Here are some ideas for celebrating […]
The Southern Harvest Bungendore Farmers Market is coming up to its two year anniversary and is held every Saturday at the Anglican Church Hall in Butmaroo Street, Bungendore. The market specialises in produce from the Southern Harvest region – Southern NSW and ACT.  The market is held in Bungendore, 30 minutes from Canberra.
Our current Market […]
With Christmas heading our way quickly the turkey and ham orders are starting to roll in and everyone is starting to get their Christmas lists together. Will you be celebrating with local flavour this Christmas?
How much of your Christmas shopping can you achieve by purchasing from local independent stores, plus the markets and farmers markets […]
Southern Harvest would like to spread the word about what can be sourced locally this Christmas by posting content on our Facebook pages, website and in a special edition Local Christmas newsletter to support you, our members.  In addition, we would like to encourage everyone to join in and post about local products they are eating, using and […]
The 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Southern Harvest Association will be held on Monday 12 December 2016 at the Old Canberra Inn. All current and prospective members of the Southern Harvest Association are welcome to attend.
The meeting will commence at 6.30pm and will be followed by a self-funded dinner.
WHERE:  Kookaburra Room, Old Canberra Inn, […]
The Southern Harvest Farmer’s Markets in Bungendore would like to invite you to a celebration of the Ngambri people, the traditional custodians of the land on which Bungendore was built. We are honoured to have Ngambri Elder, Shane Mortimer, lead a ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony and give a talk about Ngambri knowledge, and […]
Our food system is broken…
Canberra City Farm are looking for volunteers to help with the Food Box Initiative to connect more people with fresh local food.
The roles are:
If you can spare a little time to help keep this running or are keen to get more information about […]
A fantastic roll-up for the Fair Food Dinner hosted by Southern Harvest at the Bungendore Bowling Club saw the club transformed and Scrumpers Garden serving up more than 80 local fresh food meals. Over $6,000 was raised to help support the work of the Southern Harvest Association.  The Fair Food Dinner was held as part […]
Lots. Let’s start with farmers not being paid well by major retail chains for the food they grow and raise for us. Then there’s excessive food imports that unfairly disadvantage not only Australian farmers and farm workers but our food processors as well. And about much of that imported food… do we really know how […]
