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Friday 10 February 2012

New Farmers Market

Farmers markets are not a new idea, in fact they are the traditional way of selling produce. The earliest evidence was in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, people would meet in the town square to trade their produce.
In recent years there has been a resurgence of farmers markets in London, with produce sold either directly by the farmer or brought directly from the farm. Great raw ingredients and ready to eat are all on sale. One of the best things about the farmers markets (and there are many) is the high quality of what is on sale.
Tom and Amanda from Priors Hall Farm are truly modern farmers, and like many modern farmers they have had to diversify to be viable. Everything they do is organic. They raise pedigree pigs, they grow the grain the pigs eat, and from their house butchery they produce the various meat cuts and small goods like sausages and bacon.
They get up at 4:30 am to come to London on Thursdays for this new farmers market at Byng Place (Bloomsbury). Tom told me they will also cater for functions.
Oh and I can tell you from personal experience that those bangers and mash are truly delicious.

9 comments:

Gemel said...

He looks like a right jolly old soul :)

Tanya Breese said...

i love this portrait! well done! we have a farmers market here that has been continuously run since the 1800's....i think that's pretty neat!

jabblog said...

Delicious and piping hot - great photo:-)

Sharon said...

What a great portrait with that plate of steaming food!

Luis Gomez said...

Wonderful picture Mo. Great portrait.

Anonymous said...

If you look closely you can see the steam rising from that plate. delicious!

RedPat said...

I am starving so that looks incredible!

Adullamite said...

We could do with one here.

Stefan Jansson said...

I could eat that.

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