4th August – glorious food plus antiques, wildlife & flowers
The market this week is packed full of delicious local foods including Natural Bread, Crudges Cheese, and North Aston Dairy, plus free range eggs, meats & honey from Willowbrook Farm, apple juice from Tiddly Pommes, redcurrants from Sotwell Manor Fruit Farm and fruit & veg from The Clays. Our takeaways are Mediterranean, Italian, and Japanese and the market café will be serving delicious home-cooked food plus cooling gazpacho, teas, coffee, iced latte, espresso, and cordial. SESI will have their usual mix of bulk foods and household products, and non-food stalls this week are Country Bunches locally grown flowers, Mrs B’s Antiques, wildlife gardening from Wildman Environmental Learning, and Jason’s Books.
Outside
The Clays Organic Market Garden - seasonal, fresh, local organic fruit & veg
Sotwell Manor Fruit Farm – delicious local redcurrants, perfect for jam making
Tiddly Pommes - superb pressed apple juice from local fruit
Willowbrook Farm - free range chicken, lamb, beef, organic eggs & local honey
Crudges Cheese - range of cheeses hand made by ethical & sustainable cheese makers known personally to award winning Crudges
Country Bunches - flowers grown in Toot Baldon
Mrs B's Antiques - antique jewellery & vintage household goods
Inside
SESI Food & Detergent Filling Station - refilling empty containers for fairtrade, organic dried foods; household detergents & hair-care products
North Aston Dairy - local organic milk, yoghurt, cream & ice cream, plus organic rose veal & old cow beef
Natural Bread - handcrafted speciality breads
Mediterranean - lovely falafel, houmous, snacks & sweet treats
Raffaele Pepe - delicious Italian & Japanese food
Blissful Italian - freshly made Italian biscotti, cookies and a few gluten free cakes
Wildman Environmental Learning - wildlife gardening books & CDs plus workshops
Make. Do. Mend. - all your sewing alterations, repairs & commissions
Jason's Book Box - second hand books
Market Café: Joby's Kitchen
Market News
Former Market Chair and Tiddly Pommes producer Rupert Griffin has just finished his 1,000 mile charity bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats. There’s still time to donate via www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rupert-griffin or at his his apple juice at the market this Saturday.
Community News
Good Food Oxford are expanding their team thanks to funding from Veg Cities and Oxford University. They are recruiting for a part-time Engagement Facilitator, deadline 5th September. For more info: www.goodfoodoxford.org