The Orange Farmers Market might not have proceeded on Saturday but some producers managed to sell out of food.
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Some of the producers made direct deliveries to customers, while others dropped their goods at The Agrestic Grocer for collection.
Market president Paula Charnock said spaces were marked out to ensure spacial distancing in case multiple people arrived at once to collect their pre-ordered goods.
However, she said due to several producers delivering produce themselves not many customers used the collection spot and they only arrived one at a time.
Mrs Charnock who also runs Thornbrook Orchard said the market committee would meet via Zoom this week to discuss how the market can move forward to ensure its stall holders, not all of whom have online platforms, can get their produce to customers.
She said there were several options the committee would consider, from a virtual market through to holding a shop and go market on private land.
"We are not sure how we will move forward, it will depend of the restrictions that are in place in the next month," she said.
"Hopefully we will continue trading in some form.
"I want to give a very big thank you to Beau Baddock from The Agrestic Grocer for providing us with a space to operate out of, otherwise we would have had no where to operate as a control spot."
Market manager Holly Manning said one of the producers that did not have its own online platform was vegetable producer Limberlost Fresh, but with help from Carbeen Pastured Produce, who included it on its site, the food sold out.
"We were really [pleased] with how the community has supported local producers by jumping on our website and getting in touch with the local producers individually," Mrs Manning said.
"We have reports that some of the stall holders have sold out of their produce.
"We had quite a lot [of producers] today running around doing deliveries directly to people who have ordered and others were able to collect their produce at the collection point.
"That's what we always intended at the Northcourt."
Mrs Manning asked the community to use the Orange Farmers Market website to continue contacting producers and ordering food while the market committee assesses how to move forward.
"We are definitely looking at an online portal using the Orange Farmers Market website to access all the producers and we hope we can run the market next month whether its on private land [or not].
"We are looking at alternatives to show people that the market is a safe way to do your grocery shopping.
"It is the safest way to shop, you are not in a supermarket, literally most of the products have been touched by one person, in a supermarket you don't know how many people have touched them."
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