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

It’s a year tomorrow since we started the new Farmers’ Market in Havelock Square and it’s nice to be able to say we are still going!

It has been a bit of a bumpy ride, with trade hard to come by for the stallholders who have continued to attend, especially during the winter months.

I’m delighted to say, however, that as we have gone through the summer trade has increased steadily to the happy level of “definitely worth attending” and this has in turn led to the arrival of a new meat stall – Callow Farm, who are attending fortnightly – and Glamorose Cupcakes – who will be attending weekly. They have a shop in Old Town and have been attending the Sunday farmers market at the outlet for most of this year.

That means the weekly offer at the market now is seasonal vegetables and fruits, eggs, breads and cakes, cupcakes, pork, beef and lamb (fortnightly), olives and Mediterranean salads, goat’s cheese, goat meat and goat sausages and, occasionally, orchids from Gloucestershire.

We will be holding a prize draw at the market over the next two weeks to win a market hamper so come on down and enter, from 9am to 2.30pm every Thursday.

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
  • l 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
  • l 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