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Photograph showing a busy Exeter Quayside Famers' Market

Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market dates for 2026

Event Date: 
31/03/2026 - 5:45pm
Venue: 
Piazza Terracina, Exeter EX2 8GX

Come and visit the new Exeter Quayside Farmers’ Market from 9am to 1pm, every 3rd Saturday of the month down at the Piazza Terracina!

The Market

The quayside market provides the residents of Exeter with access to high quality food and allows for greater connections with local growers and producers. We also host a few non-food traders who are aligned with the ethos of a sustainable, local economy, such as a limited number of crafts people and charity stalls.

Our Aims

The market enhances the local economy through increased footfall, benefiting quayside businesses...

Leading Devon organic meat companies combine to become one

Authored by HarryWild
Posted: Thu, 11/16/2017 - 9:55pm

Already a serious player in the organic and grass-fed meat sector, Bratton Clovelly based Eversfield Organic is acquiring The Well Hung Meat Company, taking effect as of today, Thursday 16th November 2017. The acquisition will position Eversfield Organic in the top three organic box delivery businesses nationwide and cement its position as a market leader with a combined turnover of over £5 million.

The two businesses are based on either side of Dartmoor. The Well Hung Meat Company is an organic meat business based in Buckfastleigh whilst family-run organic farm, Eversfield Organic...

Kick start your mind and body at Trill Farm

Do you want to get your mind and body kick started this New Year? Trill Farm opens its doors for 2015 with an inspiring programme of courses and talks to get you thinking, learning and eating!

Trill Farm, near Axminster, is the brain child of Dr Romy Fraser OBE, the founder of Neal's Yard Remedies. Set up in 2008, the 300 acre organic farm has become an exercise in creative thinking and living.

Cattle and sheep farmers, market gardeners, carpenters, chefs and natural skin-product makers all share the farm and a common ethos; using the land and all it affords in a way that...

Xmas Organic Veg Box Order

NOT AN EXISTING CUSTOMER but you would really love to have a box of Fresh, Local, Organic Vegetables for your Xmas Dinner? PLEASE NOTE WE CAN ONLY DELIVER IN THE EXETER, DEVON AREA

Choose from 4 box sizes that will contain Potatoes, Carrots, Onions, Leeks, Brussel Sprouts, Parsnips, Swede, Cabbage, please let us know in the comments, when paying, if there is anything you don't want and we will make up your box with extra of other item/items:

THE DEADLINE FOR ORDERS IS SATURDAY, 21ST DECEMBER 6PM.

Deliveries will be made during the evening of Monday, 23rd...

Over 3,000 Pledges for the Crowd Funding Movie Santo71315

9/9/13 UPDATE: SANTOMOVIE.COM IS ALMOST AT THE HALFWAY MARK AS ALMOST £150,000 HAS BEEN PLEDGED.

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Polytunnel Potential for Bicton College

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 08/31/2013 - 12:11pm

Motivated by rising food and fuel costs and concerns over Genetic Modified crops, Bicton College has taken the ‘food fight’ into its own hands.

From melons, aubergines and grapes, to lemongrass and the highly profitable Thai Basil, Bicton College horticulturalists and volunteers are determined to produce high quality, chemical free fruit and veg.

Andrea Rye, a Horticulture Instructor at Bicton College is proud to promote natural growing. “We don’t use any chemicals in our growing and encourage natural growth so our food tastes just as it should and we are working towards...

Soil Association 'Box Scheme' Awards 2013

We are really pleased to announce Shillingford Organics has been shortlisted for the next stage of judging in the Soil Association 'Box Scheme' Awards 2013.

We really hope to give you some good news when the final results have been announced.

Love Local Food's Winter Food Fair at The Hub

Love Local Food are holding a Winter Food Fair on Saturday 15th December at the Hub on the Green, Cathedral Close, Exeter from 9.30am – 4.30pm. The event celebrates and showcases many of the local producers and farmers who supply the Love Local Food mobile shop and contribute to the exciting programme of education events.

Love Local Food's Winter Food Fair will be transforming The Hub on the Green into a 'festive food hall' celebrating the very best in produce from the local area. Regulars to Love Local Food's mobile shop, which supplies communities in Exeter...

Local vegetable delivery business expands

Penny from Penny's Recipes is expanding her local, organic, vegetable order and delivery business. Penny provides a service for people at workplaces and community centres so they can order local organic vegetables online and have them delivered to their place of work.

The vegetables are grown by Shillingford Organics, which is located just outside Exeter. The scheme is designed to make local produce available to people who struggle to get to the shops or Farmers' Market. Local bread from Emma's bread will soon be available too. The scheme which already delivers to the Hub...