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Visit one of our farmers markets and you'll be treated to some of the freshest, tastiest food around with all it grown or produced virtually on the doorstep. Top quality meats, succulent sausages, free range eggs, fresh fruit, vegetables, delicious local honey, jams, chutneys, freshly baked organic breads, pastries and cakes are just some of the items you're likely to discover as you browse around an Essex Farmers Market. With the farmer, producer or grower manning the stall, it's the ideal opportunity to find out exactly where it comes from, the ingredients it contains and importantly, the food miles it has travelled!

The popularity of farmers markets has soared in recent years as more and more customers opt to choose food with provenance. It's also given farmers and other producers a welcome chance to sell direct to the public.

With what’s on offer varying, depending on the season, you can be sure of an ever changing choice at your local farmers market.

At Essex Farmers Markets we always give priority to the most local producer and then provide products that are unavailable from producers further a field.

Much has been said about the benefits of reducing food miles in the food chain and at Essex Farmers Markets we feel there is a different angle! As well as providing local producers, in the town centres where we operate, we are providing local people with produce in a location that they visit regularly. Surely this has an even greater benefit to the environment by taking people out of their cars and providing fresh produce on their doorstep. By not asking people to travel miles to out of town venues, this must be the way forward.