Regular guests to the Freo Farmers Market must look slightly additional afield to discover a cut price from subsequent yr, with stallholders moved on from Fremantle College.
The in style Sunday morning market will now name Bruce Lee Oval residence after the college informed market operator Kylie Wheatley it not had house.
“Fremantle College are putting demountable classrooms in the area and they felt the market had outgrown the site,” Ms Wheatley stated.
“We used to rotate the market at the school but they no longer want the markets on the front lawn.”
Ms Wheatley stated she was “very disappointed” when knowledgeable “a few months ago” that she must get your hands on a brand new website for the markets.
“It wasn’t a surprise; the college has had very little to do with the market over the last four years,” she stated.
“So I went into action to find another spot as so many small local businesses relied on it and so many families come every week.”
Fortunately, the brand new location is only a stone’s throw from the school and nonetheless within the suburb of Beaconsfield.
At the ultimate City of Fremantle council assembly for 2022, there was unanimous help for a three-year sponsorship involving an 80 per cent low cost for the market’s reserving price.
“What we’ve looked to do in working with the market operator is look at bits of land that we control, which does limit it a bit,” mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge stated on the assembly.
“But what we do know about Beaconsfield is there’s this point that’s been made that there is no heart.
“The proposed redevelopment of the TAFE site gives this kind of opportunity around heart and I’m quite interested in how we might partner with the State Government to say well here’s an existing, thriving, beating heart that might fit quite well in a planned way in the development.”
Ms Wheatley stated after taking a look at a number of websites throughout the broader Fremantle space, she believed preserving the markets in Beaconsfield made “the most sense”.
“The old TAFE site carpark is central and the area benefits from our activation,” she stated. “We popped up in the carpark over COVID lockdowns and it worked really well.”
The market will take up a part of the previous TAFE’s outdated carpark and proceed on to the oval to accommodate all stallholders and probably extra sooner or later.
“At the moment we have a great mix, and I like to make sure the stallholders attending have a good day and are happy to wake up at 4am the following Sunday and do it all again,” she stated.
“I am always looking for more local fruit and veg produce stalls, we are a farmers market and the demand for local food, without the nasties is always growing.”
The Freo Farmers Markets will return January 8 from 7.30am to 11.30am with a later closing time of 1pm set to kick in over the winter months.
