Whiteladies Road Farmers Market: best place for local produce?

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mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This weekend sees the newly launched Whiteladies

Road farmers market - a place to go and buy local honey, ale and other

foodstuffs.

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.