The Market Research

Listen to the people of the South Melbourne Market talk about Changes, Family and Love as you wander the aisles of the South Melbourne Market. Interviews conducted by Dan Koop & Jamie Lewis in February 2020. The Market Record at the South Melbourne Market was developed for Love My Place, supported by the City of Port Phillip.

Listen to the people of the South Melbourne Market talk about Changes, Family and Love as you wander the aisles of the South Melbourne Market. Interviews conducted by Dan Koop & Jamie Lewis in February 2020. The Market Record at the South Melbourne Market was developed for Love My Place, supported by the City of Port Phillip.

Listen to the people of the South Melbourne Market talk about Changes, Family and Love as you wander the aisles of the South Melbourne Market. Interviews conducted by Dan Koop & Jamie Lewis in February 2020. The Market Record at the South Melbourne Market was developed for Love My Place, supported by the City of Port Phillip.

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you are in your kitchen at home. Follow the instructions and feel free to pause the track at any time. When you are ready to depart for the Preston Market you can press play on track 2. WHAT TO EXPECT: This track will introduce you to The Market Record and prepare you for your journey towards the Preston Market to complete your weekly grocery shop. You will listen on your personal device and headphones. The Market Record is a self-contained journey with 8 audio tracks that starts in your home and ends at the Preston Market. The audio plays for approximately 60 minutes, however you may use gaps in between tracks to complete your shopping. Please ensure that Victoria’s Covid Safe regulations allowing “shopping for necessary goods and services” applies to you. https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-covidsafe-settings Follow the instructions in the audio and start the next track whenever you are in position and ready. Remember, you may pause each track at any time.

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you are travelling to the Preston Market. It doesn’t matter how you travel to the Preston Market, just let yourself drift in and out of this travel podcast about what a market can be. When you arrive at the Preston Market stand outside the nearest entrance and play track 3. SAFETY: Before you depart, please ensure that Victoria’s Covid Safe regulations allowing “shopping for necessary goods and services” applies to you. https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-covidsafe-settings Please be responsible for your own safety as you listen to each track. We suggest that you pause whenever you’re about to do anything that requires your full attention, such as crossing a road. Please stay aware and safe. FURTHER READING: CHAPTER 1: Kulin Country Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation - http://www.wurundjeri.com.au First People: The Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip & Central Victoria by Gary Presland - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37778662 CHAPTER 2: Medieval and Early Modern European Society 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Middle Ages, BBC History - https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/middle-ages-facts-what-customs-writers-knights-serfs-marriage-travel/ The Anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/237168204 The economic impact of colonialism by Daron Acemoğlu & James Robinson - https://voxeu.org/article/economic-impact-colonialism CHAPTER 3: So what IS a Market? Reinventing the Bazaar: a natural history of markets by John McMillan - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33072072 CHAPTER 4: Boom & Bust Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective - http://www.paytherent.net.au The Batman 'treaty' is signed, Deadly Story - https://www.deadlystory.com/page/culture/history/Batman_treaty Possession: Batman's treaty and the matter of history by Bain Attwood with Helen Doyle - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26244791 The Good Country: the Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the protectors by Bain Attwood - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/226242816 Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles by William Quinn & John D. Turner - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/238720839 Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38209036 Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/152145093

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you arrive at the Preston Market - don’t forget to do your covid-safe check in! When you are ready make your way to the Fruit & Veg section and press play on track 4. You can find a full map of the Preston Market on their website - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/market-map/ ENIO, a local shopper Thanks to the irrepressible Enio for his delightful stories of growing up in Preston (his migration to Fitzroy) and returning to the True North with his partner and kids. More thanks are due for his kind permission to use his beautiful song, The Jewel of Preston Town. FURTHER LISTENING: Watch and listen to Enio’s full song The Jewel of Preston Town - https://youtu.be/MvTRFB4vvbs

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you are in the Fruit & Veg section. When you have completed your Fruit & Veg shop, make your way to the doors of the Deli section and press play on track 5. You can find a full map of the Preston Market on their website - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/market-map/ SAM at SAM & SONS Thanks to Sam Virgona of Sam & Sons, a Preston Market fruiterer and vegetter (is that even a thing?). Sam’s been at the market for 47 years. Sam only “sells the best”, something his customers kept telling us. Sam would like to retire soon but he’s worried that he won’t be able to leave Preston (ever again). FURTHER READING: Sam & Sons fruit & veg The Preston Market - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/trader-directory/sam-sons-fruit-and-vegetables/ Sam's Minestrone Alla Romagnola - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/minestrone-alla-romagnola-by-sam-sons-fruit-veg/ Cuttings of prized SunGold kiwifruits were smuggled to China and NZ growers are divided over what to do about it, ABC - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/china-new-zealand-kiwifruit-trade-impacts-/100129232 A Map Of Where Your Food Originated May Surprise You, NPR - https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/13/481586649/a-map-of-where-your-food-originated-may-surprise-you Aboriginal use of plants of the Greater Melbourne area, City of Maribyrnong - https://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/files/assets/public/aboriginal-plant-use-of-the-greater-melbourne-area.pdf

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you are at the doors to the Deli section. When you have completed your Deli shop, make your way to the doors of the Meat, Poultry & Seafood section and press play on track 6. You can find a full map of the Preston Market on their website - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/market-map/ KRISTIAN at Mariluchi Fine Food Kristian’s stories about his rich Southern Italy heritage, his mum’s awesome pasta-making skills, and how he put his business degree and family to work to create a pasta empire were the stories we wanted to hear. The Mariluchi gnocchi are so good (vegetarian and meat options available). You know you want to! FURTHER READING: Kristian Gandolfo and Mariluchi Fine Food - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/trader-directory/mariluchi-fine-food-specialties/ Kristian's Spinach & Ricotta Gnocchi with Sage Burnt Butter Sauce - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/kristians-spinach-and-ricotta-gnocchi-with-sage-burnt-butter-sauce/ 50 years of Preston Market: From Eurocentric shopping mart to a cultural melting pot, SBS - https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/50-years-of-preston-market-from-eurocentric-shopping-mart-to-a-cultural-melting-pot

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you are at the doors to the Meat, Poultry & Seafood section. When you have completed your Meat, Poultry & Seafood shop, make your way to the Pam Lane section and press play on track 7. You can find a full map of the Preston Market on their website - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/market-map/ BETTY at Preston Free Range Poultry & Game Thanks to the wonderful Betty of Preston Free Range Poultry & Game who blazed a trail at the Preston Market 10 years ago by introducing free range poultry, a range of game, and indigenous meats including kangaroo, wallaby and possum. Happy birthday to Betty and Dimitri and for being there for their customers during the pandemic. FURTHER READING: Preston Free Range Poultry & Game - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/trader-directory/preston-free-range-poultry-and-game/ Betty's Mediterranean-style Kangaroo Meatballs - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/bettys-mini-mediterranean-style-kangaroo-meatballs/ Pandemic Panic Buying, Museums Victoria - https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/16884

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you are in the Pam Lane section. When you have completed your shop, order a coffee or special treat at the shop of your choice and press play on track 8. You can find a full map of the Preston Market on their website - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/market-map/ SUE at Rhubarb Rhubarb Organics Thanks to the lovely Sue from Rhubarb Rhubarb Organics. We loved hearing about her passion and commitment to ethical produce and the implications for land health provided by organics. Yet another trader who’s taken risks to forge new paths at the market. It was nice to hear about many of Sue’s staff who are artists - and our own Jamie Lewis who’s a Rhubarb alumni. FURTHER READING & LISTENING: Rhubarb Rhubarb Organics - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/trader-directory/rhubarb-rhubarb-organics/ Richie's Easy Orange Cake - https://www.prestonmarket.com.au/richies-easy-orange-cake/ Listen to Courntney Barnett’s song Depreston - https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/track/depreston Listen to Allara’s song Murnong Farm - https://allara.bandcamp.com/track/murnong-farm Biodynamic farming pioneer Alex Podolinsky had sceptics, but farmers still follow his methods, ABC - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-17/alex-podolinsky-biodynamic-farming-pioneer/11413794

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to this track when you have ordered your special end of shop treat - you can choose any outlet you like. THANK YOU for joining us on your weekly grocery shop for your essentials. We’d like to give special thanks: The people of the Preston Market and the market management team The City of Darebin Fuse Fund and the Fuse Festival team. Jamie Lewis and Tilman Robinson for helping us develop and create this work. Everyone we live with for putting up with our makeshift sound studios made of curtain rails and doonas, dominating the study, lounge room, sofa and kitchen while Dan & Kat collaborated remotely and made this podcast in a totally remotely during Victoria's 6th covid lockdown.