The aromas of coffee and delicious fresh produce usually capture all the attention at the Newcastle City Farmers Market, but on Sunday morning shoppers' curiosity was piqued by something more colourful.
Performers from Newcastle's esteemed theatre troupe, Curious Legends, were roving the Broadmeadow market stalls dressed as a koala, frog and a black cockatoo to draw attention to a community-led initiative to preserve the Link Road Forest as a national park.
