Market manager Kardien Gerbrands talks about Swindon’s farmers’ markets

Well, what a summer we are having!

It’s a good job it is happening right now with so many mouth-watering summer fruits available to keep us hydrated and full of energy.

Make your own smoothies, have fresh fruit on your cereal and puddings or just eat them by the handful.

This Sunday’s market is brimming with strawberries, redcurrants, plums, cherries, blueberries and raspberries – all of the highest quality and flavour direct from the farm to the market and selling at very good prices.

Fruit like cherries and blueberries have a very short season and will only be available for four weeks at the most so don’t delay and come our way.

Also around on Sunday are Eadles and Hinton Marsh Farm, providing between them a great selection of pork beef chicken and lamb cuts for the BBQ. Eadles do great deals on their free range pork and chicken while Hinton Marsh Farm has a wide range of marinated products ready to cook, including ribs, chops and kebabs and its range of gourmet sausages, which contain only prime meat and no offal or fat. The range extends to more than 25 varieties throughout the year so they have bangers for every mood.

MARKETS

  • Bradford on Avon, third Thursday, 9am to 1pm at Westbury Gardens, BA15 1DE
  • Bradford on Avon, last Sunday, 10.30am to 2.30pm at Lamb Yard, BA15 1FG
  • Calne, second Saturday, 9am to 1pm, near the library, SN11 0JU
  • Corsham, third Saturday, 9am to 1pm, High Street, SN13 0HB
  • Devizes, first Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Market Place
  • Malmesbury, second and fourth Saturdays, 9am to 1pm, Market Cross
  • Royal Wootton Bassett, fourth Saturday, 9am to 1pm, High Street
  • Salisbury, weekly on Wednesdays, 9am to 2pm, Poultry Cross
  • Swindon Farmers Market, every Sunday, 10am to 4pm, Swindon Designer Outlet, Kemble Road, SN2 2DY
  • Havelock Square Farmers’ Market, Swindon, every Thursday from 9am until 2.30pm.
  • Trowbridge, second and fourth Friday, 9am to 1pm, Fore Street, BA14 8HX
  • Wanborough, third Saturday of the month, 9am to midday, Wanborough Village Hall
  • Warminster, first and third Fridays, 9am to 1pm, Central car park, BA12 9BT