Valleyfield House Saturday food market in Penicuik?

competitionscafe

Stumbled across this on a website - sounds promising - has anyone been?


"Now in its eighteenth year.
Every week this organic and fair trade market is run by volunteers on Saturday mornings

Valleyfield House is tucked away in the heart of Penicuik through a High Street archway. Since 1990, every Saturday morning from ten till noon, organic and fair trade supplies are brought together and taken away by people at Valleyfield House. People join in for the fun of it, there's no mark-up and everything changes hands at cost price, which makes a big difference to family food bills. Organic breads are brought in weekly by Trusty Crust from East Saltoun, stacks of fruit and vegetable boxes and other produce come in weekly from East Coast Organics at Pencaitland or nearby Whitmuir Farm, organic milk & cream from Clyde Organics and glass-bottled pints from Hawick, organic eggs from the Ettrick Valley, organic cheese from Connage and Lye Cross, with Peeblesshire grapes and Penicuik honeys in season. Pretty well everything else in the way of organic flours, pastas, tea, coffee, oats, chocolate, juices and general groceries, is there to supply a household’s needs, brought every week by wholesale co-operatives in Glasgow and Halifax.

Unlike Edinburgh and similar recently-established farmers markets, everything here is at wholesale prices.
Valleyfield House is open from 10am till 12 on Saturdays."

From: http://www.kosmoid.net/vh/index.htm

ramk_

Thanks for this - as you say it sounds promising. Might try and check it out one weekend soon. If I do I'll let you know how I get on.

ljw2701

If you do visit Penicuik there is a lovely cafe to try - The Gallery Cafe, 4 West Street. It serves lovely homemade scones and cakes as well as light snacks like soup and toasties - all organic with fairtrade coffee as well.

Upstairs is a craft shop which is well worth a visit and in the cafe itself they exhibit pieces of art from local artists.

PS I haven't been to the food market but definitely sounds good!

competitionscafe

Think I will have to make a day trip to Penicuik soon, can't do this weekend but maybe next one so will report back on the market if I get there before someone else does. :-)

stormbreaker

I must ask the MIL about this she hails from Penicuik. I do know that the prices for the products from 'Trusty Crust from East Saltoun' are rather expensive!

competitionscafe

stormbreaker wrote: »

I do know that the prices for the products from 'Trusty Crust from East Saltoun' are rather expensive!

True, but I have got some good bargains from them at the Edinburgh twice monthly Thursday (Castle Street) market just before closing when they sell what's left at reduced prices - and it is very good bread.