Finn had fun making a potato man as he sculpted vegetables into new and fun shapes at Lismore Organic Market’s 21^st birthday celebration yesterday.

As well as vegetable art for big and little kids, there were plenty of smiles, coffee, live music, vegan breakfasts - and a birthday cake for everyone.





Demos

Cooking demonstrations of how to make sourdough and cook raw vegan food were also on display at the long standing market – along with lots of healthy organic fruit and vegetables for sale.

Stall holder Carol Boomsma held a demonstration of how to grow micro greens. Carol has been growing micro greens for 18 years and been coming to Tuesday morning market to sell them for 16 years.

“Micro greens are nutrient dense and packed full of vitamins and minerals, as well as being easy to eat to eat and digest,” she said. “I grow sunflower, pea, radish and buckwheat micro greens and do wheat grass in the winter.”

Carol Boomsma.

Longest grower stall holder

Neville and Julie from Wellwood Organics have been coming to the organic market for 20 years. they are the longest running stall holders who are also growers. Neville comes from a farming family and he is the third generation in his family to grow vegetables.

“We’ve been coming since it started,” Neville said. “We’ve never missed it apart from when it was shut for Covid – and we take a couple of weeks holiday every year.

“Growing organic food is a moral thing for us. We don’t want to grow food that will poison people.

“We’ve been certified organically for 13 years and we love what we do.

“It takes more work before you’ve planted things to work out what pests might attack the crop and work out what’s in the soil and what you need. Its more homework but the end result is not putting chemicals into people’s food.

“That’s why we’ve got so much cancer in our society these days - because of the food that we eat.”

Lismore Organic market is on every Tuesday at Lismore Showgrounds from 7.30am until 11am.