Kings Norton
Farmers Market
founded 1616, reestablished 2005


the first Community Interest Farmers Market in Britain
 
 
 

Welcome to the Kings Norton Farmers Market

Our new reusable jute shoppers are now on sale, priced at just £3. These sturdy, cotton handled shopping bags will add the finishing touch to your summer wardrobe!

Congratulations are due to Catherine of Pots of Deliciousness, who won the prestigious Observer Producer of the Year award in March - anyone who has tried her fantastic deserts will know why she won! See her at our May Market...

Midlands Farmers Market of the Year 2008

We have been voted the West Midlands farmers Market of the Year 2008 by FARMA, the body that certifies and represents farmers markets! This is the second year running that we have won this prestigious award...

Thank you to all our volunteers, shoppers and traders for helping to make this happen!

Other recent successes

We've achieved Certified Farmers Market status. Only one other market in Birmingham (Moseley) has achieved this! Certification means that we are recognised as meeting the exacting standards of FARMA, the National Farmers' Retail and Markets Association.

We're proud to have been ranked number 4 in The Times' 12 Best Farmers' Markets.

We were also listed in The Independent's 50Best Markets, and amongst their 5 Great Farmers' Markets - a welcome suprise!

About us

In June we will celebrate our 3rd birthday - or 392nd if you start from our Patent. The Patent is from the time of James I (and VI if you're Scottish), and grants the right to hold a market in Kings Norton.

Interestingly it makes a statement not unlike our commitment as a Community Interest Company, that the market should be for the benefit of the inhabitants of Kings Norton.

Of course, being a CIC means that our long term aim of supporting our community becomes enforceable by law. Fortunately modern law and not that of King James! So if anyone says that we are a 'commercial organisation' tell them they're lying...

Dates for 2008
June 14th - our Birthday Market and re-opening of The Saracen's Head!
July 12th - Kings Norton Festival Market
August 9th - Taste of Summer Market


Our April 2008 Market


Our June 2007 Market


Richard Burden MP, talking to a stallholder at our July 2007 market

Next Market from 9am to 2pm
Saturday 14th June 2008!

Support Worcestershire County Air Ambulance

Le Potager, who you will know from their great deli food, are hosting a fundraiser for the air ambulance on Thursday 15th May from 10am to 8pm. This will include food and drink (admission £4.50 for coffee and cake: £9.50 for lunch). The event will be held at Blake House, Eastham, WR15 8NS. For more info email scalesblakeho@aol.com or call 01584 881 545.

News

Kings Norton Farmers Market is now a Community Interest Company - registered in England under company number 05760996. You can find out more about CICs on this page: http://www.cicregulator.gov.uk
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UPDATED: Want to see where our producers are based? We've put together some placemarks for Google Earth that will show you where they are! Click here to download the placemarks. If you haven't got Google Earth you can download it (free!) from here...
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Why not visit our friends?

When we're not on, why not pop over to Moseley? Every 4th Saturday - click on the banner to find out more:

 

 

 

 
Next Market: 14th June, 9am to 2pmTEXTShopping bags on sale: just £3TEXTWe will be three years old in JuneTEXTVoted MIDLANDS FARMERS MARKET OF THE YEAR 2008 and 2007TEXTOne of the two Certified Farmers Markets in BirminghamTEXT"Know ye, that we, graciously cherishing the common good and benefit of the inhabitants of Kingsnorton...do give and grant... that they hold and keep, to the sole and proper benefit and use of the inhabitants of the same town of Kingsnorton...a market to be held and kept on Saturdays... Attested by the King at Westminster on the 15th May 1616" TEXT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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