Food Rescue at the Fremantle Markets

Markets are one of our favourite places to get our fresh produce but have you ever wondered what happens after they close at the end of the weekend? We have too.

Fremantle Markets provide fresh food and produce three days a week for people coming into the heart of Fremantle. It's a delicious and colourful combination of fruit and veg, coffee, hot foods, bakeries and ... well you won't go hungry there. Because the markets closes on Sunday and usually doesn't open again until Friday and fresh, nutritious food would otherwise go to waste, we thought it'd be ideal for a food rescue. It's a valuable source of good food for needy families to start the week with.


To the smell of fresh coffee and ripe mangoes we got together for opening at 8am  to explain who Food Rescue was are and what we do. Our Food Ambassadors, chefs Don Hancey, Russell Blaikie, and David Coomer joined volunteers, staff and directors to go around the markets and chat with stallholders. In just over an hour we'd spoken to everyone. Russell Blaikie said he was impressed with the positive response to what we do from everybody he spoke with - and this was shared by all of us.


On Sunday we'll be heading down with one of our vans to rescue some food.