An Ethical Christmas

Shop local, understand where your food comes from and who is producing it this year. Your farmer's market is the place to buy traditional Christmas fare like free range turkey, free range goose, ham, the best roasting potatoes, sprouts, root vegetables, cheeses, mince pies, cakes and much more. Feel good about the food you serve this Christmas.

Our markets have a mix of organic and non-organic free range birds. Many producers are taking orders for turkey, goose, chicken, whole or as a prepared cut including Fosse Meadows, Galileo Farm, and Picks Organic Farm.

All our veg stalls will have potatoes but if you are want something a bit different look for The Potato Shop stall. They have a huge variety of potatoes and can advise on the best ones for the style you want to cook them in. Make sure you get your veggies in, they are so good for you and all direct from the farm.

Why not try a game bird this year, partridge or pheasant, or perhaps venison instead of beef? We have some great game stalls including The Cotswold Pantry, Newhouse Game, Court Farm, Stockings Farm, Venison Man and MS Venison.

But if game is not your thing we have plenty of farms producing fantastic quality pork and grass fed beef like Bagnell Farm, Beatbush Farm, Boarstall Meats, Court Farm, Galileo Farm, Goodtrees Farm, Grasmere Farm, Hook and Son, Laycroft, Lee House Farm, Midgham Farm, Parsons Ridge, Picks Organic Farm and March House Farm.

Our bakers have wonderful festive sweet treats, breads and cakes.

It wouldn't be Christmas without a cheesboard. Whether you like hard cheese, soft cheese, goat cheese, sheep cheese or blue cheese, we have it all. Look out for these stalls across our markets: Bath Soft Cheese, Brinkworth Dairy, Ellie's Dairy, Lincolnshire Poacher, Nut Knowle, Quickes Traditional, Trethowan's Dairy, White Lake Cheese, Windrush Valley, Bradfields Dairy, Hurdlebrook, Wildcroft Dairy and Hollis Mead Organic Dairy.

Market opening times over the Festive Season.

All markets will be open on the 23rd and 24th December as usual. Sunday markets on Christmas Eve will close 1 hour early at 1pm.

No markets will run between Christmas and New Year.

Swiss Cottage will reopen on the 3rd January with weekend markets reopening on 6th and 7th January

Imperial and Bloomsbury markets will close a week earlier with their last day being 12th and 14th December respectively. They will reopen on the 9th and 11th of January.

The 12 flavours of Christmas!

Two prize hampers to be won this month.

The '12 flavours of Christmas' hampers will each contain 12 food items for your Christmas table. Enough for the entire meal.

1. Free Range Turkey or Goose from Galileo Farm or Fosse Meadows
2. Free Range Pork Stuffing from Parsons Ridge
3. Free Range Rare Breed Ham from Giggly Pig
4. Heritage variety of Sussex Roasting Potatoes from the The Potato Shop
5. Organic Carrots and Parsnips from Wild Country Organics
6. A Brussel Sprout tree from Manor Farm
7. Cheese from Nut Knowle or Bath Soft or Trethowan
8. Home made Spiced Chutney
9. Kentish Spiced Apple Juice from Chegworth Valley
10. Organic Mince Pies from Astons Bakehouse
11. Christmas Pudding from Stevie Stewart or Seasonal Pastries from Levain Bakery
12. Essex extra thick award winning Cream from Bradfields Farm Dairy

If any item listed is not available we will substitute it with something similar.

You can enter HERE or head to our Insta or FaceBook pages where you can enter for the draw from the 1st December, the draw will close for entries on the 17th December and you will have to be able to collect your hamper from one of our markets on the 23rd December.