Getting a stall at the Stoke Newington Farmers' Market
We are always interested in helping people into sustainable food production.If you are interested in having a stall at the Stoke Newington Farmers' market please look at the Farmers' Market rules below. If your product meets the criteria, please contact us telling us what you are interested in selling.
Please note: At present, we are not looking for any more cake stalls or hot food stalls, but if you would like to go on a waiting list, please contact us.
Stoke Newington Farmers' Market Rules
1. Only local producers and processors are eligible for the Stoke Newington Farmers' Market. Growing Communities defines local as those producers and processors within a 70 mile radius of the market.
1a. In special circumstances, which currently only applies to rare-breed meat and dairy produce, the maximum distance from which producers may travel is 129 miles from the market.
2. All producers will be required to be certified organic or bio-dynamic. Growing Communities will require copies of up to date certification. We will accept producers in conversion to organic status. We also welcome producers selling sustainably harvested wild produce.
3. All processors will be required to be certified organic or bio-dynamic if they source less than 70% (by volume) of their ingredients from producers at the market or from Growing Communities.
3a. Processors who source 70% or more of their ingredients from producers at the market will not require organic/bio-dynamic certification but they will be required to show evidence of the purchase of ingredients from producers at the market or from Growing Communities and to follow organic processing procedures. The ingredients which are not sourced from producers at the market, must be certified organic. If you cannot source a minimum of 70% of your ingredients from the market, then you will be required to have full organic certification.
4. All stalls must be staffed by someone who is directly involved in growing, raising or producing the goods on sale.
5. All produce on sale must be grown, reared, caught or produced by the stallholders themselves.
6. No brought in produce may be resold without further processing. Processed goods should contain at least 30% ingredients of local origin.
7. No genetically modified produce or goods containing genetically modified ingredients may be sold.
8. All stallholders must comply with current Trading Standards and Environmental Health requirements and must be registered with Environmental Health Officers in their local area and with the Environmental Health Officer at Hackney Council.
9. All stallholders must have their own employee liability insurance, public liability insurance for their stall and products liability insurance. These should be available for inspection by Growing Communities.
10. Collaborative stalls: The producer of the goods must attend at least one market in four. Each producer represented on the stall will have to sign a copy of the contract and be deemed to satisfy the other Farmers' Market criteria
11. Stallholders can only start selling to the public from 10am onwards. This is in order not to break the conditions of our planning permission. The playground gates are to remain shut before that time.
12. The Stoke Newington Farmers' Market is primarily a food and produce market. We do allow a small number of craft/non-food stalls at the market. They must be organically certified and have a minimum of 10% of their ingredients sourced locally, we would encourage them to increase this percentage over time.
13. We reserve the right to ask stallholders to leave if they break these rules or operate in a way which is not in line with Growing Communities' Key Principles.