Kings Norton Farmers Market

We regularly get asked what you have to do to get a stall at the market - so here is a quick guide!

If you’re interested the first thing to do is to read the market rules, and make sure that you fulfil them.  We’re interested in new stall ideas that will help improve the range of produce on offer - we usually won’t consider a stall that reproduces something allready on offer, but if in doubt contact us… or better yet, come to the market and have a chat.

We also prefer stalls that can be there all year round - so that our shoppers can rely on their favourite produce being available when they shop.  Clearly this doesn’t apply to all produce, we respect seasonality, so if you can only be there for three months because that is when your produce is available then that is fine.

You need to have basic food hygeine certification, appropriate insurance, and the person who sells the produce needs to be involved directly in production.

Note - we’re a food market!  If you want to sell crafts please contact Saint Nicolas Place, who run bi-annual craft fairs and who also sell crafts through their shop.

If you are a regular shopper at our market you will have noticed that we had a stall selling sea-fish at our recent markets. How do sea-fish fit in with Farmers’ Markets? Not very well would be the simplest answer. In fact, FARMA rules make it very unlikely that sea-fish (or any fish) could be sold at a Farmers’ Market.

We don’t think that this is a very satisfactory answer - fish is, and always has been, a significant part of the UK’s diet; and the UK fishing industry is no less deserving of support than local farmers are.

What we want to do is to change our rules to ensure that we can offer you fish. If a local fish supplier becomes available, then we will give them preference. If we can’t find a local fish supplier then we will ask our local fishmonger to source fish that have been landed at British ports - ensuring that the fish comes from the UK fishing fleet.

But, above all, we want your input. Let us know if we’re taking the right approach!