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• New FARMA best-practice visits... learn from the best!

  Created: Friday, 01 June 2007 00:00

  Make more of each season – Halloween, a growing event on the farm At Over Farm Market, Over, GloucestershireOn Wednesday 30 May 2007 from 10am – 4pm Join us for an insight into the elements that make up a Halloween experience on the farm. There’s hu...

• 2007: A Brave New World for farm retailers: workshops for all involved in farm retailing with JOHN STANLEY

  Created: Friday, 01 June 2007 00:00

  Farm retailing is benefiting from changes in consumer attitudes.But listen to retail ‘guru’ John Stanley when he says that this is just the time that you should be planning for your next wave of success.Resting on your laurels is not an option.Ten yea...

• UKTV Food: Local Hero 2006: UPDATE

  Created: Monday, 01 January 2007 00:00

  WHO WILL BE CROWNED UKTV FOOD’S LOCAL FOOD HERO 2006? In July, FARMA partnered with UKTV Food in the quest to find the UK’s favourite Local Food Hero. UKTV Food : Local Hero 2006 is a major new food award that seeks out and honours those people who go...

• FARMA members winning more awards!

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2006 00:00

  BBC Food & Farming Awards 2006BEST LOCAL RETAILERAwarded at BBC Good Food Show (Broadcast 26 November 2006)Northern Harvest (Warrington, Lancs)Tod Bulmer and Ed Woolley run this “box scheme with a difference”. They source “fantastic produce” from ...

• FARMA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2006: MAKING WAVES

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2006 00:00

  The biggest and best yet at the Riviera Conference Centre, Torquay, 12-15 November 2006Our focus is on business building in an increasingly challenging environment, showing how farm retailers take the lead in demonstrating sound environmental practice, co...

• Friends of Local Foods - campaign

  Created: Saturday, 01 July 2006 00:00

  Help us support local foodsHelp us keep local foods localHelp support your communityWe make local foods... FARMA launches a new campaign this month encouraging shoppers at farm-direct sales outlets - farm shops, farmers' markets, PYO's and box schemes - t...

• UKTV Food: Local Hero 2006: Supported by FARMA

  Created: Saturday, 01 July 2006 00:00

  Launched this year, Local Hero 2006 is a major new food award from UKTV Food, supported by Enjoy England, FARMA and Lea & Perrins. The Awards seek out and honour those people who go the extra mile to create great local food and offer a valuable service to...

• Positive PYO

  Created: Thursday, 01 June 2006 00:00

  It’s good to see that pick-your-own farms are in a positive mood. Sales in recent years have been climbing steadily as growing numbers of customers have sought out PYO as a leisure and weekend activity for the family.  PYO is the bedrock for direct sal...

• Nine Years and Counting! Annual Farmers' Markets Conference 2006

  Created: Monday, 01 May 2006 00:00

  Farmers' Markets have been running for 9 years now following the setting up of Britain's first true Farmers' Market in Bath. Since that time, the sector has exploded with over 500 Farmers' Markets around the country, and nearly 200 Certified by FARMA to u...

• Food Matters 2006

  Created: Sunday, 01 January 2006 00:00

  Resolve that 2006 will be the year that you start to buy local foods from local producers at farmers’ markets, from farm shop – or by starting to order a local fruit and vegetable box delivered to your door.Why? We’ve listed 21 Reasons (click here),...

• Regional Conferences 2006

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2005 00:00

  The second series of the highly rated 'Seductive Selling' tour, with Jurek Leon, has been announced, and will be visiting a venue near you with 10 venues around the UK!Click here for more details (brochure PDF)Click here for high-quality (printable) vers...

• Get a turkey grown for the season

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2005 00:00

  Around eight out of ten of us will be eating turkey at Christmas. Mass-produced turkeys can produce bland-tasting meat as the birds will have been spending time getting fat, not fit, and mostly indoors. Turkeys are game-birds that thrive in woodland – f...

• National Conference 2005 (pre-conference information & brochure)

  Created: Thursday, 01 September 2005 00:00

  The FARMA annual National Conference is to be held in North Yorkshire, at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, on the 8th and 9th of November. This conference is for you if you are a FARMA member, Farm Retailer - or prospective Farm Retailer - a Farmers' Market...

• BAN THE BLAND IN THE ‘MONTH OF TASTE’

  Created: Thursday, 01 September 2005 00:00

  ‘Ban the bland’ and get full-on flavour from local foods available at farmers’ markets and farm shops during the Month of Taste, organised by the National Farmers’ Retail & Markets Association (FARMA), from 17 September to 23 October 2005. The Mon...

• FARMA's research confirms: Farmers' Markets could grow threefold

  Created: Wednesday, 01 June 2005 00:00

  The latest national tracking survey about Local Direct Sales (LDS) from the National Farmers’ Retail & Markets Association commissioned through YouGov, shows that 90 per cent of households are keen to buy direct from the producer. At present, 30 per cen...

• Farmers' Markets Conference 2005

  Created: Sunday, 01 May 2005 00:00

  The 2nd FARMA Farmers' Markets National Conference takes place on the 13th June 2005 at the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster, London.This conference takes its cue from its London location and looks at metropolitan farmers’ markets. There’s a lot...

• BUILD IT! FARMA workshops

  Created: Tuesday, 01 March 2005 00:00

  Inspiration & techniques for creating hard-working, selling displays. You don’t need a lot of capital or to be an artist to create great displays that sell. What you need is techniques - and confidence...In these hands-on workshops, international retail...

• Buy Local Food and save the Planet!

  Created: Tuesday, 01 March 2005 00:00

  You might think 'buying British' is good enough but a research paper* published on 2 March measures the environmental cost of transporting food around the UK, from farm to supermarket. If people switched to buying locally produced foods they would save £...

• Farmhouse Breakfast Week

  Created: Tuesday, 01 March 2005 00:00

  Simon Holland of Washingpool Farm Shop, Bridport and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, FARMA patron. Hugh and Lesley Waters, TV chef, were at the farm on Friday to help celebrate Farmhouse Breakfast Week. Below, the Farmers' Market at Winchester, Hampshire on ...

• Regional Conferences 2005

  Created: Saturday, 01 January 2005 00:00

  FARMA is running a series of nine regional conferences, starting on Monday 31 January in Penrith, Cumbria and finishing on Wednesday 16 February in Dorking, Surrey. The theme is 'Seductive Selling: how to sell more, have fun and love the work you do'. It ...