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• Farm Shops and Café-Restaurants

  Created: Sunday, 01 February 2009 00:00

  For a printer-friendly list of farm shops with café-restaurants, click here...

• 2009 Local Food Award Winners announced!

  Created: Friday, 14 November 2008 00:00

  The very best in local foods & farm direct salesFarm shops and farmers’ markets across the UK are celebrating national success after being declared this year’s farm retail winners in the prestigious FARMA awards from the National Farmers’ Retail and...

• FARMA National Annual Conference 2008...

  Created: Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00

  Details out now! Book your place at the best farm retailing event in the UK and learn with us how to Build Better Business! The 29th annual FARMA conference (that's counting back to our FSPA days in the 70's!) is being held at the Marriott Hotel, Gos...

• BBC Farming Today on PYO

  Created: Thursday, 01 May 2008 00:00

  BBC showcases the future of Pick Your Own with FARMA membersAward winner Richard Stanley being presented with the FARMA Pick Your Own of the Year 2008 award by sponsor Rebecca Dawson, Tozer DirectThe BBC's Farming Today focused on the past and future of P...

• What Makes A Winner: Stroud farmers' market

  Created: Thursday, 01 May 2008 00:00

  Winner: FARMA Farmers' Market of the Year 2008Getting into a rut with your farmers’ market ideas?COME TO STROUD FARMERS’ MARKET AND BE REFRESHED!Stroud farmers’ market, winner of the 2008 FARMA Farmers’ Market of the Year, has brought new life to ...

• WHAT MAKES A WINNER: PYO

  Created: Thursday, 01 May 2008 00:00

  Winner: FARMA Pick Your Own of the Year 2008 Continuing this year’s series of ‘What Makes A Winner’ events, Tuesday 20 May is a great opportunity to see Rectory Farm, Stanton St John, Oxford, winner of the FARMA Pick-Your-Own of the Year, 2008. In ...

• FARMA members visit Farm Retailer of the Year: Farndon Fields Farm Shop

  Created: Wednesday, 16 April 2008 00:00

  Learn from the best! On Monday 31 March 2008, almost a hundered keen FARMA members descended upon Farndon Fields Farm Shop in Leicestershire to learn 'What makes a Winner.' See our video below: {flv img="http://www.farma.org.uk/images/stories/videos/fa...

• FARMA SEASONAL FOCUS

  Created: Thursday, 20 March 2008 00:00

  Get ahead of the game this Christmas While Santa takes his holidays, now is your chance to plan for a cracker of a Christmas 2008.FARMA is delighted to offer expertise from two fine farm retailers at this event: Nigel Chandler has seen Garsons, Esher grow...

• WHAT MAKES A WINNER:Farndon Fields Farm Shop, Leics

  Created: Monday, 10 March 2008 00:00

  See how winners of FARMA's prestigious Farm Retailer of the Year award get it right... Farndon Fields Farm Shop won the Farm Retailer of the Year, 2008 because it remains rooted in growing foods that it sells, and because its authenticity is partnered wit...

• DEVELOPING A QUALITY ASSURED NATIONAL PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY FOR PYO in the UK

  Created: Thursday, 10 January 2008 00:00

  An Industry Landmark Event to be held on Monday 25 February 2008 This could be the most significant initiative since PYO started...Retail analysts agree that provenance is the next big battleground for consumer choice. Pick-Your-Own is brilliantly placed ...

• What Makes a Winner: Building Better Business

  Created: Wednesday, 02 January 2008 00:00

  What makes your retailing unique? LIFTON STRAWBERRY FIELDS FARM SHOP and OCCOMBE FARM SHOP & DEMONSTRATION FARM are different in their approach - but each has developed a unique consumer EXPERIENCE OF FOOD to a high degree.Both are FARMA Award Winners 200...

• FARMA announces 2008 local food Award Winners

  Created: Friday, 16 November 2007 00:00

  The FARMA National Awards are unique.They reward excellence in a number of different categories related to farm retailing and direct sales and, in order to enter them, FARMA members put in a great deal of effort. We ask about business performance, staffin...

• 10 years of Farmers' Markets celebrated on BBC's Countryfile programme; farm shops showcased

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2007 00:00

  Stroud Farmers' Market Ludlow Food Centre BBC Countryfile visited Stroud Farmers' Market, winner of this year's Certified Farmers' Market of the Year award and talked with Clare Gerbrands, market manager, and our own Gareth Jones. Sandy Boyd of Ludlow Fo...

• FARMA November conference coming soon!

  Created: Saturday, 01 September 2007 00:00

  These are some of the reasons that you need to be there... >> Ideas from fellow farm retailers Speakers at this conference include Sandy Boyd (Ludlow Food Centre), Georgina Mason (Gonalston Farm Shop), Judith Taylor (Horstead Farming Group) and Sall...

• Foot & mouth & farmers' markets update for members

  Created: Monday, 06 August 2007 00:00

  An email has been sent to members advising how to handle the situation. To view the documents click here. Please also refer to the DEFRA foot & mouth page here for news & information...

• BBC Radio 4 Food Programme celebrates 10 years of farmers' markets in the UK...

  Created: Wednesday, 01 August 2007 00:00

  FARMA contributes on Sunday 5th (12:30) and Monday 6th August (16.00) Picture shows (L-R): Sheila Dillon, Gareth Jones (FARMA), and Henrietta Green in the studio discussing the role of farmers' markets Click here to visit the Food Programme website...

• New FARMA best-practice visits... learn from the best!

  Created: Wednesday, 01 August 2007 00:00

  PYO in France: Join us for a visit to the Chapeau de Paille farms around Paris from 10-12 September 2007. Independent travel to Paris, stay in a central hotel Sunday-Tuesday; there’ll be great food, lots of best-practice ideas and concepts to share. Weâ...

• Farmers' Markets month & the All Party Parliamentary Markets Group

  Created: Friday, 01 June 2007 00:00

  Stephen O'Brien, MP for Eddisbury, Cheshire, attended Vale Royal Certified Farmers' Market on Saturday 16th June. Pictured with Monica Haworth, manager of the farmers' market. The visit was to demonstrate his support forfarmers' markets during British Mar...

• Friends of Local Foods - campaign UPDATE

  Created: Friday, 01 June 2007 00:00

  We make local foods...With thousands of cards arriving at the FARMA office, and hundereds of emails, one year on the Friends Of Local Foods campaign has been a success in recruiting consumers passionate about local foods, in collecting information, and in...

• UKTV Food Local Hero 2007 - Supported by FARMA

  Created: Friday, 01 June 2007 00:00

  "UKTV Food's Local Food Hero 2007 is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the very best of food and produce across Britain. The awards are a tribute to everyone who puts great British produce onto plates, into shops and markets, and on pub and restaurant...