School Farmers Markets – a new movement!
Three new schools have started doing School Farmers’ Markets
this term:
Dolfor CP School 21 Sept
Machynlleth CP School 28 Sept
Abermule CP School 5 Oct
Berriew CP School is running its second on 23 November and
new schools are contacting the project.
That brings the number of schools to eight!
Each school develops their own version of the market and
the producers vary.
Schools interested please contact the CAFE Project Officer
in your area.
Producers interested please contact
Sioned Pugh
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The CAFE Project and the Mid Wales Food & Land
Trust have been working together to promote these unique
markets that take place in the school hall (often also the
Community Hall) from 3 to 5.30pm. The recipe is successful
because local people coming to the school to collect their
children can meet in warm and comfortable surroundings, have
tea provided by the PTA, meet local producers and select
local food, crafts and plants at their leisure and take them
straight back home!
Pioneered by Aberhafesp CP School just outside Newtown
which has now held 10 markets, three other schools will
be holding
markets in the run up to Christmas. Guilsfield CP School
north of Welshpool will hold its third and two new schools,
Churchstoke
in the East and Llangedwyn in the north will be holding
their third. ‘Three other schools are also interested and we
hope to develop a network of these markets which benefit schools,
give the children some entrepreneurial experience and make buying
local a practical possibility’ says Linda Broughall,
Headteacher of Aberhafesp CP School. Caroline Davies works with the children who set up and run
their own stall, handle cash, find out what consumers will
purchase and make sure that they do not sell out too early!
Four of the producers also host farm visits and it enables
the pupils to appreciate the marketing aspects that the farmers
they know from their school trips have to tackle. |
