Bath Farmer's Market every Saturday
The main emphasis of these markets is that they help local producers, processors and manufacturers to sell their goods near their source of origin, creating benefits to them and to the local community.
The markets give an advantage to the producer over selling to a middleman, and they benefit the local economy. In addition they create many social and health opportunities. Last but not least they help the environmental sustainability of the local area by encouraging organic production, reducing transportation miles, pollution, packaging and waste, and by promoting associated recycling activities.
Farmers’ Markets place an emphasis on added value, quality and freshness. They often have associated music and festival events, sometimes with a seasonal theme. They aim for an atmosphere which is vibrant, upbeat and fun, helping to revitalise urban centres and to make shopping a sociable and enjoyable experience.
View this site [oursouthwest.com] for a more detailed account of the numerous benefits Farmers markets bring local communities.
Farmer's markets have become very popular in the UK over the last decade. The markets are held at Green Park Station in central Bath every Saturday. There is a wide variety of local produce that is sold directly by the people who produced them; all goods come from under 40 miles away.
I have even discovered a twin Bath Farmers Market in Maine USA [bathfarmersmarket.com]. Jacksonville USA is just one example of a thriving US farmers market - the model adopted for British farmers markets. The short documentary and interview [video.google.co.uk] covers all the different benefits of Farmers markets.
1. View of main market area in the old refurbished Green Park Railway Station.
2, Local veg and fruit vendors.
3. Here every Saturday.
4. Enticing the locals.
5. Local strawberries.
6. A few of the onions on display.
7. Anyone for lettuce?
8. Mushrooms in all sizes.
9. Sunflowers are coming into season.
10. Rainbow carrots.
11. My favourite chard.
12. Not much need for these this summer!!!
13. A local cheese.
14. Collectables.
15. The Video and CD man.
16. Hand made scarves.
17. Pretty bows.
18. Locals viewing and discussing plans and model for a major new riverside development.
19. Yeeeees……..
The worrying thing about relying on supermarkets with a global ecological footprints is that most of it is flown or shipped in and is stored in wharehouses until distributed for consumption. The wharehouses have about two weeks supply until they are replenished! We live in a fog of [url=http://www.photoblog.com/sevendipity/2007/07/31/]myopic stupidity[/url].