Founded in the suburbs of Bouddi in July 2021 by community-minded locals, Home Markets has been spreading its core message of Home Grown, Home Made, Pre Loved, with regular Home Made Trails held throughout the region each month.
The initiative has been inspiring Coasties since lockdown to get creative, get connected and get to know their neighbours again, as a way to improve individual and community wellbeing during unprecedented times.
Home Markets founder Lisa Mount is passionate about using creativity to improve wellbeing on an individual level and within communities.
“Sharing, swapping or selling home-grown produce, hand-made items or pre-loved wares is not only a practical, sustainable lifestyle approach, it also strengthens relationships within communities,”
said Lisa Mount
“When we use our hands to grow, make, bake, create or pass on pre-loved anything from a space of genuine creativity and care, we re-connect with our true nature and our mental health naturally improves.”
Mount said the Home Markets website, developed by Nick Baron of Bean Farm Web Design, has been pivotal in helping small business promote their wares online, without financial overheads which many can no longer afford.
The website also features a google map, allowing people to carve out their own Home Markets Trail routes based on their favourite home stalls, and an event calendar featuring upcoming Trails, with the next to be held on December 11.
The Trail is a market experience where people can walk, ride or drive around their neighbourhood and shop at the open Home Stalls, Mount said.
Many of the stalls now have a Home Markets flag flying, thanks to community partner Belle Property Central Coast.
Trails run every second Sunday of the month.
“I’m encouraging my own family to go home-grown, hand-made and pre-loved this Christmas by tending our edible home garden, making or sourcing hand made products and upcycled pre-loved wares,” Mount said.
“I love the Home Markets platform as it’s made it easy and simple for other Central Coast families to do this as well.”
To hold a Home Stall on the Trail or to find the trail map for December 11 head to www.homemarkets.com.au.
Join the public Facebook group Central Coast NSW Home Markets Community to keep up to date.
Primary source: Media release, Dec 1, 2022 Home Markets