Darina Allen: Recipes for locally-sourced food to mark National Farmers' Market Week 2024

Many farmers tell me that they would not no longer be on the land if it wasn’t for the Farmers’ Market movement. Remember farmers are fortunate if they get paid a third of the price on the supermarket shelf and are super lucky if they’re paid within a month.

Mediterranean Vegetable Stew.

National Farmers’ Market Week runs from the 4th-10th August 2024 so in this column, I joyously celebrate the Farmers’ Markets and the heroic producers who harvest their home grown produce, hail rain or shine, then pack up and set off at the crack of dawn on market day. 

They set up their stalls to sell to their local community, tourists and holiday makers who long to get a glimpse of what’s in season in the area, a taste of that place.