Tauranga Farmers Market is a market on Fifth Avenue in Tauranga. A good farmers market is built on stallholders selling what they've actually grown, baked or made themselves, rather than reselling stock bought in bulk elsewhere, so it's worth asking a stallholder about their produce if you want to know it's genuinely local. Turning up early tends to get the best pick of fresh produce before the popular stalls sell out, while going later in the morning can mean picking up bargains as growers look to clear what's left rather than take it home. What's on offer changes with the seasons, so a regular visit rewards you with variety over the year rather than the same stock every week. Carrying a bit of cash still helps, since not every small stall runs card payments smoothly. On Fifth Avenue in Tauranga, this market is the weekly stop for that kind of fresh, local shopping.