Refresh your food shop with a trip to a Farmers’ Market this week
Kent Farmers Markets Association
- Kent’s Farmers’ Markets provide outlets for over 400 talented and dedicated producers and farmers to sell their produce directly to you.
- Meet the producers and find out how products are made.
- Find really fresh and nutritious seasonal fruit and vegetables, meat and fish.
- Buy local specialities from cheese, honey and jams to freshly baked bread and homemade cakes.
- If you want a supermarket that isn’t a supermarket, you’ll find our Farmers’ Markets offer you a different shopping experience.
Farmers’ markets will transform your food shopping experience from a routine chore to a delight, enabling you to see, touch and even taste the delicious, fresh, local produce and tasty food and drink on offer from the county’s artisan producers. So what is the unique farmers’ market shopping experience?
Local food and drink
Grown or produced in our community, either by hand or using traditional methods
Value for money
Buy direct and enjoy competitively-priced quality products
Easily traceable food and drink
Chat to the stallholders to find out where your food comes from
Fresher and tastier food and drink
Seasonal produce, freshly picked
Great variety
From fresh fruit and veg, through meat, fish and cheese, to bread, cakes, pickles and jams, together with dozens of other quality essentials
Healthy food and drink
‘Food made for eating not keeping’, without all the additives
Community spirit
A great focal point and lots of fun for all the family – raising thousands for charity and local communities every year
A new food experience
With tastings, as well as unusual and original food
Where and When?
Every week somewhere around the county there’s a farmers’ market taking place near you. Some are under cover, some are in the open air but all offer a unique and enjoyable food shopping experience – weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
New market and stallholders?
Fancy becoming a stallholder, or setting up a new farmers’ market simply visit the website for a comprehensive guide on what to do next…
Visit www.kentfarmersmarkets.org.uk
E: info@kfma.org.uk T: 01732 833976