What makes a “farmers’ market”?
March 27, 2008
It’s a question that is exercising newspapers and politicians. And it’s a question that SFB’s members and committee are wrestling with. We’d be really interested in your comments about Bedfordshire’s local “farmers’ markets“. Should they be FARMA certified? What should the convivium be doing about this issue?
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Paul | March 31, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I feel that any market that promotes good, local produce should be welcomed and encouraged!
However, if a market is promoting itself as a “farmers market” in Bedforshire, it should be for producers that are from within a 30 mile radius of that market…. the Woburn Market for example now has producers from Staffordshire, hardly local!
Maybe it is just samantics because the need for these markets to exist finacially is important and if they need to bring in traders from far and wide to survive it is certainly better than the market collapsing…. a new description could be the answer.
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sally | April 14, 2008 at 6:15 pm
sadly unless you visit marston moretaine farmers market which is indeed small compared to others they are about the only market who seem to stick to the ethos of local producers
many of the other local bigger markets are purely that markets
as many of the producers have travelled many more than the 30 miles
perhaps farma itself should be doing something to stop people from setting up “”farmers’ markets”" and make them just be called markets,