One piece of advice you may have head or read a number of times when it comes to the topic of healthy living, is to learn where you food has come from.

At Braidwood Farmers Market you can do exactly that by talking to the local people who grew or produced the food and products they're selling.

The organising committee pointed out to us that this is a genuine farmer's market, because they meet with the vendors and determine how local they are, and how local their produce and products are, before including them in the markets.

"We screen people as much as we can," says Joanne Graham who is one of the organisers.

"We let people in that make jams from the fruit they grow, or they're using other local produce. So even if they didn't grow it, someone local did."

Another aspect that they're mindful of is not to have too many of the same thing around the stalls, but that doesn't really present as an issue given that "growers in this region generally have something different anyway".

The furthest afield anyone comes to the market are the fishers from Batemans Bay, and what they bring is what they caught themselves.

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Braidwood Farmers Market is a not-for-profit exercise and it started in November 2013. They utilise the space inside the National Theatre, which also means they're not affected by the weather.

With a handful of exceptions (like pushing their October dates back a week to avoid the long weekend), they're generally on the first and third Saturday of each month from 8am until 12.30pm, or until sold out which sometimes happens early.

The Braidwood Farmers Market is also a great place for visitors to come and see the amazing range of things Braidwood grows, or makes from what they grow.

Here's an idea. If you have visitors on one of the Saturdays the markets are on, take them and show off what is in season and available right now locally.

That brings us to another point. Being that everything has come from the region - or as close to it as possible in the case of the fish caught at the nearest coastline - it will only be there if it's in season.

They also provide a table to Landcare for free, where its members can bring whatever vegetables they currently offer. This is the market's way of giving back to the community, and also provides an easy way for these members to try the markets out (without having to get separate insurance first) and see if they want their own stall in the future.

The website (above) has more info, and follow them on Facebook to see what extra features are coming soon (like the knife-sharpening demonstrations last weekend).