Brixton Market going all posh on Sundays

[supercity]

The council's been mis-managing the market for years. I welcome anything that brings people and traders back to the centre of Brixton.

At one stage we had a great second-hand market, a great food market. Now it's a shadow of its former self. I used to go every Saturday, now it's once a month, if that.

 

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i went to the most amazing farm shop in cornwall recently.
the produce was just lovely. some more of that anywhere would be nice.

i accept the potential for undermining the local traders though.

whereabouts?

 

[spanglechick]

Such a romantic image... It doesn't fit with my experience of Brtitish farmers markets though. In Europe, yes, real farmers around the edges of normal markets, selling their own produce. Even in the US there's a touch of authenticity, but here, wghat I've seen has been overpriced, poor quality and (with rare exceptions) sold by someone other than the farmer.

so the famer has to spend their day off selling stuff on a stall?

fuck that. i have no authenticity problems if the stall is staffed by someone employed for the purpose.

 

[Ms T]

and in practice it's overpriced, isn't of high enough quality to sell to the supermarkets, comes mostly without ingredients labels or sellby dates, and anyway a lot of it is from France.

That's not been my experience of the one in Clapham (Abbeville Rd). Great and cheap veg, nice cheeses, sausages, chicken etc.

 

[boohoo]

if they got the smoked garlic people and the hot cider then I'll be there...

 

[editor]

so the famer has to spend their day off selling stuff on a stall?

fuck that. i have no authenticity problems if the stall is staffed by someone employed for the purpose.

They should bring along the entire farm, animals, tractors, fences, barns, the lot.

Then I'd believe that they're real farmers and not some dodgy chancers.

 

[Dan U]

whereabouts?

just outside newquay. i just googled and think this is it (cant remember the name)

Trevelliy Farm, Lane, Newquay

If you know the area its just up the lane from the Lane Theatre near that mcdonalds/morrissons roundabout where the fun fairs, car boots etc are.

My mate works on a farm just up the road and annoyingly this was the first time i've been out of many visits, def missed a trick there @ self

 

[Mr Retro]

since a couple of longstanding traders retired from the market too many of the traders seem to be stocking the same bum-standard cheap assortment of fruit and veg. There's got to be an opportunity for someone providing more seasonal British fare

I agree, the quality of the the majority of produce on the market is lamentable.

If this market provides variety and quality I'm all for it. Not too bothered if some of the stuff is from France or further afield, once it's good.

 

[EastEnder]

This sounds very interesting, may have to investigate.

It's about time the market went a bit posh, should keep out most of the unwashed urbanites.

 

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just outside newquay. i just googled and think this is it (cant remember the name)

Trevelliy Farm, Lane, Newquay

If you know the area its just up the lane from the Lane Theatre near that mcdonalds/morrissons roundabout where the fun fairs, car boots etc are.

My mate works on a farm just up the road and annoyingly this was the first time i've been out of many visits, def missed a trick there @ self

thanks.

 

[tarannau]

That's not been my experience of the one in Clapham (Abbeville Rd). Great and cheap veg, nice cheeses, sausages, chicken etc.

Are you talking about the occasional French market or the newfangled Bonnefield (sp?)/Abbeville Rd Farmers market?

The former's been more than a little variable on the few occasions I've been there, but I've not been arsed to make it down to the latter yet.

 

[Ms T]

Are you talking about the occasional French market or the newfangled Bonnefield (sp?)/Abbeville Rd Farmers market?

The former's been more than a little variable on the few occasions I've been there, but I've not been arsed to make it down to the latter yet.

The latter. It's really good for fruit and veg, imho.

 

[kyser_soze]

Just get ours delivered by Abel & Cole - £8 a week for some really great British fruit and veg, mostly still covered in the earth it was pulled from the soil with. Lots of freakishly shaped tatties as well

 

[gaijingirl]

the newfangled Bonnefield (sp?)/Abbeville Rd Farmers market?

Much beloved of the Sunday supplements....

 

[kyser_soze]

That's cos most of the 'journalists' who write for the Sunday supps live round there...

 

[William of Walworth]

Oh, BTW, are we allowed to call them Christmas lights this year or not?

Rascist!

It's now "The People's Jovial Celebration Of Dates In And Around December" (don't mention Christmas!)

Please don't believe myths. This SLP (etc.) generated canard, later repeated in screaming headlines on the front page of the Daily Express, of 'Lambeth to ban Christmas', was thoroughly investigated by various local Urbanites last year.

And as I oh so objectively recall, was pretty much established on this forum to be complete bollocks ...

 

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Please don't believe myths. This 'Lambeth to ban Christmas' malarkey was thoroughly investigated by various local Urbanites last year, and was pretty much established on this forum to be complete bollocks ...

When did facts ever get in the way of a good pc gone mad story?

 

[William of Walworth]

When did facts ever get in the way of a good pc gone mad story?

Never!!

(Note clarificatory edit of my first post ... )

 

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If my memory is right, most of the more famous PC gone mad stories were fakes. baa, baa green sheep, or some other such thing was a media contrruct wasn't it?

 

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And on topic, I have a chioce of west ealing or chiswick farmers markets. Both have people selling fairly good meat, ome overpriced, some very reasonable for the quality, and good english fruit and veg, generally less than the supermarkets charge for stuff like plums, english soft fruit, apples and brassicas. There's a few more people selling luxuries at chiswick, and more selling good veg at ealing. So I usually do ealing.

i take real exception to anyone saying that all farmers markets sell is overpriced substandard tat though. I know some do, ballham is a pretty good example of that. but others can be bloody good and give loads of good seasonal veg, that's cheap, dosen't rot within 2 days and actually has flvour, at less than the supermarkets charge for shite veg.

 

[netbob]

If my memory is right, most of the more famous PC gone mad stories were fakes. baa, baa green sheep, or some other such thing was a media contrruct wasn't it?

Traditional correctness gone mad

 

[newbie]

so the famer has to spend their day off selling stuff on a stall?

fuck that. i have no authenticity problems if the stall is staffed by someone employed for the purpose.

The USP is that the farmers market is a direct link between the discerning consumer and the small farmer. Fresh, honest, local produce straight from field to table, bypassing supermarkets and agribusiness.

If it doesn't mean that, how is it different from the ordinary, monday to saturday, market, except in its sunday supplement appeal?

 

[Kanda]

The gentrification of Brixton continues......

 

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The USP is that the farmers market is a direct link between the discerning consumer and the small farmer. Fresh, honest, local produce straight from field to table, bypassing supermarkets and agribusiness.

If it doesn't mean that, how is it different from the ordinary, monday to saturday, market, except in its sunday supplement appeal?

Point is, can the farmer not send an employee to man the damn stall. or several farmers paying one person to go sell goods for them. or a farmer making a product with their prodice and selling it on a stall. That's hardly on the same scale as supermarkets or several layers of wholesalers.

 

[newbie]

Point is, can the farmer not send an employee to man the damn stall. or several farmers paying one person to go sell goods for them. or a farmer making a product with their prodice and selling it on a stall. That's hardly on the same scale as supermarkets or several layers of wholesalers.

Nor will it feed people on the same scale as the wholesalers or the supermarkets.

Why don't farmers send their employees to run stalls in ordinary markets?

 

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Why don't farmers send their employees to run stalls in ordinary markets?

IDK, nor do i really care.

having the stalls all together in one place at one time is good.

 

[newbie]

they are, monday to saturday, not wednesday afternoons

 

[newbie]

oh, and on sunday there's always East Street.

 

[toggle]

So fucking what?

i really don't give a shit why they don't sell stuff every day of the week in my area. i'm happy to go to my local farmers market on a saturday and get what i want to get.

 

[newbie]

I thought we were talking about Brixton