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Out and About in September

Newcastle Farmers’ Market’s 10th birthday on Fri 3rd Sept was a great success from a formal opening by the Mayor to cookery demos by Real Food Works to live chickens scratching around under Grey’s Monument. A real tribute to the hard work put in by market manager, Jane Rose, and her colleagues. See photos in our events gallery.

Look out for the NEEFM stall at the Berwick Food Festival (10am-5pm, at The Barracks, Sat 11th – Sun 12th Sept). Come along and have a chat – and find out more about our Friends of Farmers’ Markets initiative.

At Hexham Farmers' Market on Sat 25 Sept, there will be the Slow Food UK 'Taste Adventure' as part of the Hexham Eating Festival.

Gibside Farmers' Market now have farm animals for shoppers to meet on farmers market days – Janet Strother, one of the stallholders brings in her pigs and cows and hens – so visitors can see from pig to plate or cow to steak! There is also a realistic full size replica cow that families can milk at our Stable Block – it’s a great hit with young market goers who come to visit the estate after their shopping. It’s the first one in the North East.

Middleton-in-Teesdale Farmers’ Market on 26th Sept is their last outdoor market of the summer. From October through till March, they’ll be inside at UTASS on Chapel Row – and there will of course be something of a Hallowe’en theme at the market on Oct 31st!
 
Tenth Birthday for Toon Market

It’ll be a real party atmosphere when Newcastle Farmers’ Market celebrates its 10th birthday next Friday (3rd Sept).market manager, mayor & deputy mayor in from of market stall

At around 9.30am, Cllr Brenda Hindmarsh, the Lord Mayor of Newcastle will be on hand to cut the official birthday cake and tour the market, hopefully taking the opportunity to sample and buy some of the local produce.

And then there’s a whole series of demonstrations including fish-filleting by Ridleys Fish and Game and Cake Root doing 'here's one I made earlier'. The ‘cool food dudes’ from Real Food Works will be preparing quick and health meals from scratch in their microwave using ingredients available on the market.

Bill Quay Farm will be bringing along some live chickens, and Steve Ramshaw of Northumbria Quality Meats will be producing a celebratory sausage.

There’ll be a ‘guess the pie ingredients’ competition with the opportunity to win a 2.7 Kg pie froblue haired woman feeding toodler with lentil soupm Northern Lass, if you can guess the exotic ingredients.

Kathryn Potts from NEEFM will be along running a tasting stall with samples from all over the market – and there’ll be much much more.

And watch out for the free prize draw entry form in the Chronicle, bring that along and you could win a prize hamper or one of three £10 vouchers to spend on the market.

Some come along to the market on Friday 3rd Sept, at the Monument end of Grainger Street and join in the fun!
 
September Spectacular!

You can enjoy a great time at the Farmers' Markets and Food Festivals coming up in September, taste what’s on offer and come away with bags of fresh, tasty local produce to cook up your own feast at home.

Join in the 10th Anniversary Celebrations at Newcastle Farmers' Market on Friday 3rd September and enter the free draw to win a prize hamper of the new season’s hill lamb, freshly dug carrots, cheese, rosemary focaccia, crunch courgette cake and lots more - or a voucher to spend at the Farmers' Market - you can fill in an entry at the Farmers' Markets. Steve Ramshaw will have tasters of a sizzling new celebration sausage and there will be demonstrations about how to prepare and cook the fresh ingredients on sales.

At Berwick Food Festival on 11th and 12th September younger foodies will be able to experience how to enjoy food using all five senses by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling and hearing as they discover the delicious secrets of the hidden local foods and complete a special Taste Adventure Passport with stickers!View of market with stall selling fudge in the foreground

Also on 11th September - a bit further down the coast, there's the second Newbiggin Farmers' Market. The market in August was very popular, and Newbiggin Town Council tell us that they are seriously thinking of continuing the market through to Christmas if the September market goes as well.

Alnwick Food Festival is on 18th & 19th September. Buy the best of fresh, local produce in Alnwick Market Place. A particular highlight will be Doddington’s Dairy icecreams, made with cream from cows pastured in the lush meadows of North Northumberland. Adults can savour locally brewed ales at the Beer Festival while children will be able to make their own fresh fruit smoothies and join a tasting tour of the Roots and Shoots Garden.

customers buying pies and conservesMeanwhile on Sunday September 19th, up in the hills at Allen Mill in Catton (south of Hexham) at the new Allendale Farmers’ Market , you can buy bread from Allendale Bakery and beer from Allendale brewery plus other specialities like Birdoswald cheese, rare breeds meat and organic vegetables.

It is not all good news though – Northern Dales Farmers’ Markets’ trial farmers market at Teesside Retail Park in Thornaby has been scrapped because they weren’t getting enough customers along, although the nearby Stockton farmers’ market is flourishing.

And Northumberland CC have finally pulled the plug on Ponteland farmers’ market just a couple of months after its 10th anniversary. They are replacing it with a conventional street market to be held on the fourth Friday of the month.

So – do support your local farmers’ market!
 
Salad Days in Saltburn

Dedicated foodies are in for a treat at Saltburn Farmers Market on Saturday July 10, where they’ll be able to sign up as a ‘Friend of Saltburn Market’ and receive news, information and special VIP invitations to a clutch of special events throughout the North East!

AMarket organiser Lorna Jackson & Veronica Boland from Saltburn Allotments Association take a break on Veronica’s Saltburn allotment - while Veronica’s dog Poppy tries to catch forty-winks in the sun.nd, smack bang in the middle of National Salad Week (7-13 July), stallholders from the Saltburn Allotments Association will be bringing a selection of assorted salad goodies fresh from their gardens just a few minutes walk away.

Thanks to the Market’s brand new links with North East England Farmer’s Markets (NEEFM), an annual subscription of £10 will see Saltburn Market Friends receive a quarterly newsletter about seasonal foods and foodie events throughout the North-East - plus VIP invitations to visit local farmers and producers to see how their food is made.
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Cooking Demos and Hens

Darlington (21st), Ponteland (22nd)

If you fancy some cooking but unsure where to start or have lost your interest or confidence in your cooking skills and need inspiring come and talk to Wendy and David the “Cool Food Dudes” from Real Food Works at Darlington on 21st May or at Ponteland on 22nd May (where they’ll be joining in the 10th anniversary celebrations) and get some recipes for quick and simple meals. You can also get some tips about how to make your food pounds go further.

David from RFW serves a customer at his stallDavid from Real Food Works says:

“Great meals start with the best quality ingredients and buying direct is good value for money. You can find something different at Farmers' Markets and the money you spend on foods grown and produced locally goes back into the local economy as the producers employ local people and buy supplies locally where possible.

“Some produce cannot be supplied all year round. But if you buy direct from Farmers' Markets you can get in touch with the seasons.”

Alnwick (28th)

At Alnwick Farmers' Market on 28th May you can find out more about keeping a few hens:

Hens respond to the lighter days by increasing egg production so between mid March and mid October they are plentiful. If you buy eggs at a Farmers’ Market, you can ask about the type of hens and how they are kept. Now is the best time to include omelettes on the menu and with some finely chopped fresh herbs added you have a tasty fast food meal, and egg custard goes perfectly with stewed rhubarb.
 
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