The best Farmers’ Markets in the UK
Conservative British flagship paper The Times has a great story Top 12 UK farmers’ markets.
Dirty dozen: the best of Britain’s 600 local-produce markets where you can buy muddy carrots and misshapen fruit that tastes as it should.
- St Giles farmers’ market, Shipbourne, Kent
- Winchester farmers’ market, Hampshire
- Stroud farmers’ market, Gloucestershire
- Kings Norton farmers’ market, Birmingham
- Cardiff Riverside farmers’ market
- Wirral Urban farmers’ market, New Ferry (alas no link)
- Hexham farmers’ market, Northumberland
- Alnwick farmers’ market, Northumberland
- Orton farmers’ market, Cumbria
- Haverfordwest farmers’ market, Pembrokeshire
- Bristol Slow Food market
- Edinburgh farmers’ market, Scotland
There’s a real joy to be had in buying fresh local produce direct from the farmers. The food just tastes better, for one thing. Some years ago my wife and I made a commitment to not shop from large supermarkets unless we really had to. We noticed almost immediately that we went from having a full rubbish bin each week to hardly ever coming close to a quarter-full bin per month. Suddenly we were not accumulating plastic bags, plastic wrapping, plastic and polystyrene base-plates. By thinking about what we were going to eat throughout the week, and then buying what we needed, rather than popping into the supermarket each night to get stuff we thought we might like, we cut our food bill by 25%. We bought a worm farm and, a year later have good enough soil that our home crop of herbs and tomatoes is booming. Eating local, eating fresh, eating seasonal; these are easy ways to both help the planet, help the farmers and improve your quality of life. — DS
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