 If you happened to watch ABC's breathtaking series, Great Southern Land recently, you will have learned that Australia eats the most beetroot in the world, and exports 70,000 tonnes of rice per year. On a continent with just 6% of precious arable land, we support almost 23 million people, and 120,000 farms produce almost everything we eat!
In episode one, titled Great Australian Bite, Professor Steve Simpson, explored how we satisfy an appetite for two of life’s vital ingredients: food and power - as seen from above. Simpson set off on a journey to unravel the network of food production by tracing the ingredients of a humble Australian burger, travelling from Roma in Queensland to Adelaide; from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula and to Queensland’s Glass House Mountains. Viewers were taken from the stunning Snowy Mountains, to Tasmania, south west Victoria, Lake Macquarie in NSW, Burdekin in Queensland and the outback of Western Australia. Seen from above how a vast nation is fed and powered is an eye-opening adventure... this is Australia as you’ve never seen her before! The four-episode series of Great Southern Land is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 21 November and I have TWO copies of the DVD valued at $29.95 each to give away! ENTER THE COMPETITION HERE! To be in the running to win a copy of the Great Southern Land DVD, simply tell me about your favourite Farmers Market in the comment box below. What do you love about it? What makes you want to return again and again. If you tweet about this competition to me @bizzylizzycooks, you will have a greater chance of winning. The Great South Land DVD competition is open to residents across Australia. It closes at midnight on 12 December 2012. Winners will be notified by email and announced here. So make sure you enter and watch this space. In the event you don't win, perhaps you can ask the family to pop a copy in your Christmas stocking! Capital Region Farmers Market will always be my favourite. The market has opened a whole new world to my family and I. As a stall holder, it has given us an amazing opportunity to share the world of bees and honey with the people of Canberra. As a customer and patron of the market it gives my family and I access to superb seasonal fruit and vegetable that we don't find anywhere else :-)
Hayden
17/11/2012 02:24:43 pm
Gorman House :-) They have excellent food for my late breakies
Todd
17/11/2012 02:25:57 pm
Capital Region Farmers Market. You can find everything you want there. You always get parking!
Kathy
17/11/2012 02:27:19 pm
the Inverell Sapphire City Markets are great - only on once a month but always a treat in a small country town.
Grace
17/11/2012 03:05:28 pm
I saw some tweets about your competition .. would love to win this as a pressie for my parents, in Australia. I am currently travelling and my favourite Farmers Market at the moment is the Dupont Circle Fresh Farm Markets. They are a producer only market - I found them when walking around and they reminded me of the Markets at the Rocks in Sydney - I used to go there with my parents as a child. You can check them out at: http://www.greentowns.com/initiative/farmers-market/dupont-circle-fresh-farm-market-washington-dc
Alexander
17/11/2012 03:35:30 pm
I really like the Markets at Epic in Canberra. It has a good atmosphere and even though it gets really busy there is lots of space so its never super duper crowded. Comments are closed.
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