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Stroud announced "Farmers Market of the Year 2007 South West Regional Winner"
Market organiser wins TV cook-off with celebrity chef
Matthew Fort launches "Around Britain with a Fork" from Stroud Farmers' Market in the Weekend Guardian
"To market to market" article in The Independant
Local Green Party celebrate launch of weekly farmers market in Stroud
European "Farm to Market" Study Tour of the UK visits Stroud farmers market
Stroud farmers market success
Malmesbury Farmers Market success
Weather improves for Malmesbury farmers market
Market organiser shorlisted for Schumacher Award
Gloucester Farmers' Market "Most Marvellous" in the South West!
Gloucester Farmers' Market recently scooped the top award in the "Marvellous Markets" competition organised by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), The National Farmers' Union, and the Western Daily Press. Judges were impressed with the market's layout, siting, easy access and great diversity of stalls. But what really swung it is that it brings a flavour of the countryside to the centre of Gloucester each and every week!
Gloucester was one of dozens of entries from Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. Fresh-n-Local's Swindon Sunday Farmers' Market - was Highly Commended. more...
Market Organiser speaks to local comprehensive school students about enterprise
Defra report estimates cost of food miles are around £9 billion every year
Published on 15 July, the report shows that the transport of food has a significant and growing impact on road congestion, road accidents, climate change, noise and air pollution. More than half the costs are due to road congestion. Food transport now accounts for 25 percent of all Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) kilometres in the UK, and consumers travel an average of 898 miles a year by car to shop for food. Since 1974 the quantity of food transported by HGVs has doubled. The Government says that it is consulting on proposals to reduce the environmental and social impacts of food transport by 20 percent by 2012. more...
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