One small consequence of this is that the Liverpool Farmers Market disappeared a couple of weeks ago to be replaced by a stack of drainage pipes. While local enthusiasm for the absentee landlord’s masterplan knows no bounds, the market gets virtually no publicity. Given this lack of support, regular visitors to the market could be forgiven for thinking the enclosure of South John Street marked the end for local farmers selling their grub in Liverpool. But apparently not - the market has moved just down the hill and round the corner, somewhere off towards Canning Place.

As globalisation of the food chain destroys farming and the environment around the world – everything from subsidised western production to corporate theft in patenting seeds to food import air miles cranking up global warming – it gets ever more important to think again about what kind of food we ought to be eating. When it’s seemingly impossible to buy an English apple in Liverpool, something’s got to be wrong.

The market sells fresh regional produce, quite a bit of it organic, and appears somewhere near to South John Street / Canning Place every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month.