The Thousands

Been to Crown Street lately? You can barely walk a mile without running into another posh supermarket. They pile the fruit on old barrels all wholesome-like, then slap it with a rude price tag. The loose dirt on the potatoes and the leaf still attached to the apple are the reassuring stamp of authenticity, a placebo for city shoppers.**It’s a world away from the local general store, and about 6km away from Marrickville Organic Market. Every Sunday morning salt of the earth types (farmers) are at your disposal. Talk to them – they like humans as well as tractors. And they can tell you why the corn’s a little sweeter or the bananas a little dearer.

Markets like these run all over town. The Addison Road Centre houses several community galleries, a summer moonlight cinema, as well as recycled goods co-ops, Reverse Garbage and the Bower. Gather your hemp finery and head to this fig-shaded utopia.