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Monthly market offering local produce, hand-made goods, plants, cakes and more.
Leigh Curtis
Exeter Quayside Farmers’ Market returns to Piazza Terracina on Saturday 16 August with local produce, hand-made goods, plants, cakes and more.
Launched by Food Exeter in June, and attracting around 1,000 visitors on its first day, the monthly market aims to increase access to nutritious, healthy food for Exeter residents and visitors.
The August market will offer local produce from Shillingford Organics and Sharpham Cheese, baked goods from The Sidwell Street Bakehouse and Fika Exeter, meats from West Town Farm and Little Mead Meats and fish from Greendale Farm Shop.
Local beer, herbal tea, chutneys and honey as well as artisan soap, flowers, plants and wooden bowls will all also be on sale.
Exeter Quayside Farmers’ Market stalls
Food Exeter aims to change the local food system by tackling food poverty, food waste and unsustainable farming practices.
After establishing a network in 2014 to support local food-focussed projects and businesses, the organisation became a charity in 2019.
Exeter Quayside Farmers’ Market takes place from 9am to 1pm on the third Saturday of the month. It next returns on Saturday 16 August 2025 then on the following Saturdays to the end of the year:
- 20 September 2025
- 18 October 2025
- 15 November 2025
- 20 December 2025.
For more information visit the Food Exeter website.
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