Great FARMERS MARKET Thread

durham_girl

Durham Farmers Market

Durham City

Every 3rd Thursday in the month

9 - 4ish

Lindsaye_2

Hartlepool Historic Quay

SECOND Saturday of the month

Starts early until about 2pm

spiddy100

One of the OS-ers mentioned this website

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

It is a bit patchy but some really useful information on farmers market and other local suppliers

HankMcSpank

meerustar wrote:

I wouldn't mind paying a 'little' over the top for good food but not expensive prices, how do they expect to compete with the supermarkets if they do?

??

Cos they grow the darned produce in the first place!

If a farmer can't compete with a supermarket by selling direct to the public...(the price he gets wholesale is a *lot* different to what he can charge retail), then he may as well hang up his pitch fork & sell his red tractor.

Truth is...I reckon not many stall holders at these farmers markets *are* farmers...cetainly in the ones held in London at least (this can be confirmed by the fact that none of them have purple noses, say "Ooo arrrh" or have Cow dung on their wellies)

jinkssick

nice one in Blackheath, South East London.

MINCER_2

Cumbria Farmers Markets -

http://www.madeincumbria.co.uk/fm/fm_details.html

and http://www.ortonfarmers.co.uk/

If I get time I'll extract a list, but for now use the links.

Philippa36

Wirral Farmers Market

badmumof1

http://www.essexfarmersmarkets.com/

not everything there is farmer made

Rochford and Southend Essex btw

shopndrop

Philippa36 wrote:

Wirral Farmers Market

Have you been to the Wirral one recently? I went there when they first opened some years ago and there were only a few stalls with nothing much to sell. Have never been back since. Just go shopping here now http://www.churchfarm.org.uk/farmshop.htm

littleredcorvette

This is a good website for Farmers Markets in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands:

http://www.sketts.co.uk/farmersmarkets.html