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Acle Market
2nd Saturday monthly
9.00am – 1.00pm.
13 stalls covering a variety of products, including pork butcher, bakery, chickens, vinegars, ice cream, beer and crafts etc.

Aylsham Market Place
First Saturday monthly
Contact: Hazel Stringer
Tel: 01263 734580
19-20 traders. Meat including Aberdeen Angus, organic lamb, pork, free-range chicken, ducks, sausages -veg, cakes. jam, honey, eggs, plants.

Banham Community Centre
First Saturday monthly (not January 2008)
9am-1pm
Tel: 01953 860010
Banham Country Market. Over two dozen food and craft stalls.

Barsham, Grange Farm Centre
Last Saturday of every month from 9am - 1pm.
Contact Liz Harvey
Tel. 01502575218. Website www.dmfs.co.uk
The first market to be established in the area with 25-30 stalls offering a full range of fresh produce including meats, fruit, vegetables, bread and other home baked goods and traditional crafts.

Beccles Heliport
1st & 3rd Saturdays 9 until 1
Contact: Margaret Hall
Tel: 01502 476240
25 stalls. Meats, organic section, bread, pies, seasonal produce and crafts at Christmas. Ample parking. Cafe

Burston
1st Saturday Monthly
BOCM Paul’s Pavillion, Mill Road, Burston, IP22 5TJ
Preserves, cakes, fresh flowers, local beef, pork, and venison, free range eggs, apple juice, Norfolk honey, local veg, hand made toys.
Contact: - Peter & Rosemary Schaay 07788 278664

Caister-On-Sea
3rd Saturday monthly 9 – 1
15 stalls. A good variety of produce including plants & herbs, organic breads, cakes, pastries, local beer, meat, veg, chocolate etc.
Contact Christine Boggis (01692) 402882

Creake Abbey
FINALIST EDP NORFOLK FOOD AWARDS 2007
Serving the Creakes, Burnham Market, Burnham Overy, Brancaster and the surrounding area
Situated in the tranquil setting of Creake Abbey and Creake Abbey Studios (www.creakeabbeystudios.co.uk) Creake Abbey Farm, North Creake, Fakenham NR21 9LF
1st Saturday monthly (except January) 10-2
25+ local producers with award winning meat, organic vegetables, seasonal fruit, cakes, bread
handmade preserves, cheese, award wining beer and plants.
Christmas ordering welcomed
Free entry, ample parking
Contact Diana 07801 418907

Dereham Railway Station
2nd Saturday monthly
Contact: Pat Jarrett on 01362 693821
20-25 stalls, full range of meats, veg, plants cakes. Parking

Diss Market Place
2nd Saturday monthly 9.00 until 1.00
Contact: Diss Town Council
Tel: 01379 643848
14 stalls - full range of products

The Diss Farmers' Market is unique in the town as a place where you can buy fresh, seasonal produce directly from the people who produce it. And they always offer friendly advice on how to cook things, and what is special at any season. Stallholders are all local, from within 30 miles of Diss, providing an environmentally friendly source of high quality food.
The stalls now include a range of different foods, prepared foodstuffs and crafts:
• Fresh vegetables, grown for flavour and with a minimum of chemicals,
• Local beef and lamb grown with special attention to the animals wellbeing resulting in excellent flavour
• Wild local venison and rare breed pork
• Apples, apple juice and cider produced by traditional methods
• Salad leaves, living salads, herbs and cut flowers in season
• Homemade cakes and savouries
• Dry mixes to make bhajis and tempuras - gourmet Eastern food from local ingredients
• Handmade preserves
• Handmade country cream fudge in many flavours
• Local specialist nursery plants and trees
• Handmade greeting cards
• Win a hamper in our raffle
• If you spend £10 at any stall you can take home free a Diss Farmers Bag to carry all your shopping.

Fakenham Market Square
4th Saturday monthly 8.30 to 12
Contact: Ann Chappel
Tel: 01328 862702
Website: www.fakenhamfarmersmarket.co.uk
A wide variety of the freshest top quality local produce, seasonal variations. A traditional market with atmosphere, value and entertainment.
8.30 to 12, fourth Saturday every month. Dates for 2008: Jan 26th, Feb 23rd, Mar 22nd, Apr 26th, May 24th, June 28th, July 26th, Aug 23rd, Sep 27th, Oct 25th, Nov 22nd, Dec 20th

Fritton Lake
Myhills Nursery
A143 opposite Fritton Lake
Every Sunday 10am – 2pm
10+ stands including Poultry, Pork, Fish, Venison, Cakes, Bread, Crafts, Plants + much more
Contact Elizabeth Myhill 01493 780494

Harleston
The Swan Hotel, The Thoroughfare, Harleston,
9 until 1, 3rd Saturday monthly
Contact: Joy Hensley
Tel: 01379 854887
Full range of meats, such as rare breed Gloucester Old Spot pork, young lamb, beef, poultry,and seafood. We also have local honey, homemade cakes, scones, fruit, vegetables, eggs, plants, handmade chocolates, ethical soaps and beer from The Old Chimney Brewery.

Holt
Community Centre (next to Budgens)
2nd Thursdays monthly
Local food from local people.
Meat, eggs, organic bread, seasonal fruit / veg, ale + much more.
Contact Linda Cletheroe Tel 07780 930903

Hoveton Village Hall
4th Saturday monthly
20 Stalls including:- vegetables, meat, venison, beer, plants, honey, preserves, home-made cakes and pies.

Lophams Farmers' Market
Shopping like it used to be . . .
4th Sat each month 9am - 12.30pm
(5 miles west Diss - A1066), Lophams Village Hall (North Lopham)
A mple parking
Contact Mike Shiperlee (01379) 687235
Authentic local farmers' market, 20 or more vendors.
Now in our eighth year the Lophams’ Farmers Market has been a lifeline to local producers of high quality food during some of the most difficult times that the rural business community can remember. Huge variety of local producers, refreshments in the adjoining tea room, winners of the farmers' market section of the EDP Food Awards once, and runner-up twice.

Metfield, near Harleston
1st Saturday monthly
9-12 in the village hall
Fresh seasonal produce, mead, jams, eggs, pork, beef, herbs + much more,
Contact (01379) 586283

Neatishead
Victory Hall
2nd Saturday monthly, 9-12
8+ stalls to include fish, meat, alpaca wool products, bakery, eggs, game.
Details Mrs Newcomb 01692 536354

Norwich - Norfolk Showground
2nd Saturday of the month 9 - 1
Norfolk Farmers Markets - Remember: BUY LOCAL or BYE LOCAL
Every month will bring a new and interesting feature about Norfolk produce. Following the recent media coverage we will show you the many arrays of sizes and colours garden chickens come in, from the rarest breeds of all to the hybrid layers that will supply you with an egg a day, also we will endeavour to show how much room a broiler chicken gets along side the room for free range, and sheltered chickens for the table.
Stalls providing LOCAL produce from our region, including eggs, sausages, pork, beef, lamb, cheese, bread, cakes, plants, yoghurts, and much more.
Free parking, and your chance to win a Norfolk hamper.
For more details call 01953 600803

Norwich
Gentlemans Walk 1st & 3rd Sundays, 10-4
2nd Saturday monthly at the Norfolk Showground, Costessey.
Contact: Rita Hollands
Tel: 01953 681715
20+ stalls, meats, organic veg, cakes, honey, fish. Egg and bacon muffin breakfasts. Ample free parking at the Showground.

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Norwich - Golden Triangle Farmers' Market
WINNER EDP NORFOLK FOOD AWARDS 2007
Earlham House Shopping Centre
2nd Sunday Monthly 10 – 3
Produce to include:- lamb, pork, beef, veg, cakes, honey, fish, jams, chutneys, ale, pork pies etc.
Website www.thegreengrocers.co.uk

North Walsham
9 - 12 noon every 2nd and 5th Saturday monthly in St Benets' Hall, North Walsham.
Wide range of top quality local seasonal produce including bread, cakes, scones and other home baked goods, fish, game, honey and beeswax products, salad, pies, pork, preserves, ready-meals and seasonal veg and fruit.

For further details contact Pauline Pearce. (01603) 667940

Repps with Bastwick
Farmers' market, Repps with Bastwick Village Hall
4th Saturday of every month, 9am-12noon

Rickinghall
Suffolk
Second Saturday of each month, 9.00 a.m until 1.00 p.m. at Rickinghall village hall.
Selection, beef, cakes, mushrooms, flour, lamb, smoked fish, vegetables, wild boar, eggs, free range rare breed pork, preserves, apple juice, bread, honey, craft stalls, About 20 stalls

Rushall
Near Diss
Half Moon farm (near pub)
Last Saturday monthly, 9 – 2
Home made cakes, flowers, eggs, veg, fresh meat from farm, all local produce
Contact Graham or Michael -01379 740100

Sandringham
Visitors Centre
4th Saturday monthly, 10-3
15 + stands, large variety of produce to include meats, shell fish, fish,
Seasonal fruit and vegetables, flowers, plants, mushrooms, puddings etc.
Contact: Derrick Tooke 07717 7444441

Snettisham
Memorial Hall
2nd Friday monthly, 10 – 2
Pork, beef, lamb, fish, shellfish, home-made cakes and chocolate, plants & flowers, cheese, seasonal vegetables, mushrooms, old fashioned puddings, bread, apple juices + much more.
Contact: Derrick Tooke (01362) 694063 / 07717 7444441

Stalham
Stalham Town Hall. 9 - 12 noon every 1st and 3rd Saturday monthly. Genuine Farmers' Market with full range of local seasonal produce including free range eggs, pork, bread and other home baked produce, honey, game, seasonal fruit and veg.
For further details contact Annette Pride (01692) 670992

Stradbroke, near Eye
Stradbroke Business & Enterprise College (formerly the high school)
1st Saturday monthly - 9am-1pm
Run by year 10 students as part of their Business G.C.S.E coursework
Approx. 15 stalls including, local Pork, Beef, Lamb, local Eggs,
Jams & Preserves, home made cakes, hand-made chocolates, vegetables
seasonal fruit, dried flowers, continental breakfasts using local produce, teas & coffee's.
Contact: Lawrie Hammond
(01379) 384387

Swaffham
1st Wednesday every month
8-1 War Memorial site
Contact (01760) 722922

Thorpe St Andrew
Last Friday of month
St Andrews Centre Hall, Thunder Lane
Thorpe St Andrew
9.30 – 1.00

Wayland Certified Market
1st Saturday (monthly)
High Street, Watton
Contact: Jan Godfrey
Tel: 01953 883915
10-16 stalls depending on season including meats fruit, fruit juice, eggs, honey, sweets, baked goods, vegetables, plants and some crafts

Wymondham
Market Cross
3rd Saturday (monthly) 9 - 1
Contact: Wymondham Town Council
Tel: 01953 603302
17 stalls - full range of produce. Meat, veg, cakes, eggs, fudge, fish, goat products and seasonal specials.

 

 


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