Whiteladies Road Farmers Market: best place for local produce?

By Laura_Local | Thursday, July 01, 2010, 12:35

This weekend sees the newly launched Whiteladies Road farmers market - a place to go and buy local honey, ale and other foodstuffs.

Whiteladies Farmers Market

But is it really much cop?

After all, we're lucky in Redland and the Whiteladies Road area with no shortage of health food shops - from Wild Oats to Earthbound and Briggs to the more mainstream Holland and Barrett.

This weekend's Whiteladies Farmers Market, which takes place up by Dreweatt Neate Auction Rooms on between 8.30am and 2pm on July 3, is welcoming more Fair Trade products as well as just local produce.

It will see local businesses, including Leigh Court Farm and Bordeaux Quay manning stalls with a selection of their goods for shoppers to peruse and hopefully buy.

There will also be live music and activities for children (face painting etc), which let’s face it, the health food shops simply don’t offer. And overall, it’s more of an event – a day out.

Then, you can go to the shops at lunchtime and they’ve still got stock on the shelves, whereas you run the risk with the Whiteladies farmers market of missing out unless you get there early.

And if you’ve ever been to some of the larger farmer’s markets in Portsmouth or Leicestershire, among other places, the Whiteladies Road farmers market is tiny in comparison.

Then again, size isn’t everything!

The Whiteladies Farmers Market, which was set up four years ago by Sustainable Redland, takes place on the first and third Saturday of every month.

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you can pick up local stuff in the supermarkets now anyway, especially waitrose. and its cheaper there. dunno why you'd make the effort to go to this thing.

By for_real at 11:18 on 02/07/10
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