Find Farmers markets In Your Area :)

roses

I was watching tv this evening and there was a program on the BBC about farmers markets. Here is the website they advertised to find the one nearest to you based on your postcode:

http://www.bigbarn.co.uk/

Some farmers markets are cheaper than the shops and others not so much but it is all trial and area. I have been looking for farmers markets in my area for ages and now here's a website which lists them all .

Enjoy!

davet_3

That's a really good site thanks, had all the places we knew locally that are quite off the beaten track plus a few others we didn't know about :-)

junebaby69

Thank you for this i love farmers markets

tomthebomb

My beef with farmer's markets is that they always complain about how little the supermarkets pay them for their produce but their prices are even higher than the supermarkets for the same things. ( In my experience ).

andybk

tomthebomb
the higher prices are usually down to the abatoir costs , these are exhorbatant, due to supermarket control over government policy , (ie trying to force out the competition with unnessasary regulation on the smaller abatoirs , as the big supermarkets own the main abatoirs ) Butchery costs have nearly trebeled , in the last few years as inspectors inspect inspectors ,I still get the same price for my lamb as 25 years ago ,

tomthebomb

andybk

I take your point about government policy towards the little man & his abattoir ( Globalisation writ large ) but I feel that the farmer could do more to help his own case by not playing the same game as the supermarkets.
It was some time ago now but it has stuck in my mind that on the same day it was on the News that farmers were lucky to get £5 per sheep at market I looked at British lamb in Sainsbury's - £11.68 / kilo.
Even with abattoir & other costs I am sure farmers could give themselves & the public a better deal without too much effort.

andybk

thats where the public are mislead , I get approx £45.00 (as i did 25 years ago ) for a 40kg live lamb from tescos and the rest , for 80 % of the year , and approx half the weight is what is used for meat and the rest is disposed of , thats just over £1.00 per kilo , the rest when sold is profit and operating cost to the supermarket / abattoir ,Milk is another example farmer gets 18 pence per litre (30% cheaper than 25 years ago ), supermarket sells for 60p so when critisising the cost of meat , or milk remember who takes the lions share , and the farmers markets help us to get a bit back ,