Regular cooking demonstrations may become a feature of the Albury Wodonga Farmers Market in the future.
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The idea is among those being tossed around by the market's committee members as they consider long-term plans in the context of Albury Council's Hovell Tree Park upgrade consultation.
Committee president John Hennessy said he would love the markets to utilise the community wood fired oven at the park, which alternated with Wodonga's Gateway Village as the weekly market's venue.
"I'd very much like to involve people who are in not just the food growing industry, but people who run restaurants and people who run cooking schools, all those sorts of people to be a feature weekly," he said.
Fun and friendly competitions for children, for example the biggest pumpkin or brightest sunflower, are other potential activities.
"If the children come, the parents come, and if the parents come the parents will discuss with the farmers and the producers what their produce is and buy it," Dr Hennessy said.
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The market committee is presently seeking a part-time co-ordinator, a paid position with applications to close on Monday.
"We want someone with significant skills," the president said. "Because this person is the go-between from committee and the producers and the visitors who come and shop."
Albury Council has been liaising with user groups including the farmers market and will pass on feedback to the consultants engaged to develop detailed designs for the riverside precinct and Hovell Tree Park improvement project.
"Activation of the precinct will be hugely important to its success and the council is looking forward to this next stage of planning," council general manager Frank Zaknich said.
Dr Hennessy said recent farmers markets had been "very robust" with favourable weather and more than 30 stallholders each Saturday.
"And new people coming along and new people applying, which strengthens the market and diversifies it, both of which are important," he said.
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