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New in Blood oranges have a wonderful, rich flavour and their juice is especially good - straight up or with your tipple of choice.

Try this Sunny Creek Farm's organic cherry guavas are a lively tasting berry-sized fruit packed with vitamin C.

At their best Afroditi Wheeler of Kinglake Vegetables says her carrots are sweeter, with a greater depth of flavour, than at the start of the season. Why? Because they have grown slowly over winter and been exposed to several frosts.

In the vegie patch After removing the main head, a broccoli plant will continue to produce smaller side shoots that are equally - if not more - delicious.

Accredited farmers' markets Saturday, July 27: Bentleigh, Casey-Berwick, Coburg, Lancefield, Mansfield, Slow Food (Abbotsford). Sunday, July 28: Flemington, Inverloch, Mount Eliza. See vicfarmersmarkets.org.au