Llandovery Farmers Market awarded new industry standard

The Farm Retail Association has recognised Llandovery Farmers Market as Wales’ first member to be accredited as a ‘Real Farmers Market’. The Real Farmers Market Accreditation scheme was launched in January this year.

This new industry standard brings consistency and clarity to what it means to be a real Farmers Market. Market manager Raoul Bhambral explains,

“It means you can talk to the actual person who actually made the cheese, raised the livestock and grew the veg. It means they’ve done all that and now they are selling it to you in person. It really helps you understand more about your food. This is a fantastic tribute for the market and its traders and our role in promoting real local food.

This is what shopping should really be like. This is more than food, this is a real food story. It’s fresh, it’s local, it’s sustainable. It tastes great too!”

Llandovery Farmers Market showcases a wide range of quality Welsh-made food and drink. This ranges from pasture-fed meat like beef, lamb, pork and mutton to fresh greens and vegetables, honey and sheep and goat’s cheese. From beers, ciders, spirits and liqueurs to jams, chutneys, marmalades and gluten-free cakes. From mushrooms to mushroom tinctures.

It also has fresh cut flowers and pollinator-friendly plants. The street food stalls use local ingredients wherever possible.  

Raoul Bhambral invites all to see,

“Come and find out for yourself! Our next market is on Saturday 6 September and we would love to see you there. Just bring your wallets and a shopping bag. A big one.”

Llandovery Farmers Market met the scheme’s requirements with flying colours. Three of the key principles are:

Championing the farmers – customers can buy directly from the farmers, growers and producers who grew, raised or made the products on sale and are selling it themselves

Proud of our provenance – customers can get advice and information about the product including how it was produced from field to fork

Prioritising local – stallholders are recruited from as close to the market as possible

The next market is on Saturday 6 July on Llandovery’s Market Square.

The More Than Food campaign is about connecting people with their local suppliers and about the benefits of shopping at farmers markets and farm shops. The campaign ambassador is FRA patron Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Find out more at https://farmretail.co.uk/more-than-food/ Marchnad Ffermwyr Llanymddyfri yn ennill safon diwydiant newydd

Mae Cymdeithas Manwerthu Fferm wedi cydnabod Marchnad Ffermwyr Llanymddyfri fel aelod cyntaf Cymru i gael ei achredu fel ‘Marchnad Ffermwyr Go Iawn’. Lansiwyd cynllun Achredu Marchnad Ffermwyr Go Iawn ym mis Ionawr eleni.

Mae’r safon diwydiant newydd hon yn dod â chysondeb ac eglurder i’r hyn y mae’n ei olygu i fod yn Farchnad Ffermwyr go iawn. Mae rheolwr y farchnad, Raoul Bhambral, yn esbonio,

“Mae’n golygu y gallwch siarad â’r person gwirioneddol a wnaeth y caws, fagu’r da byw a thyfu’r llysiau. Mae’n golygu eu bod nhw wedi gwneud y cyfan hynny ac yn awr maen nhw’n ei werthu’n uniongyrchol i chi. Mae hyn wir yn eich helpu i ddeall mwy am eich bwyd. Mae hwn yn deyrnged wych i’r farchnad a’i masnachwyr ac i’n rôl ni wrth hyrwyddo bwyd lleol go iawn.

Dyma sut y dylai siopa fod mewn gwirionedd. Mae hyn yn fwy na bwyd, mae hyn yn stori bwyd go iawn. Mae’n ffres, mae’n lleol, mae’n gynaliadwy. Ac mae’n blasu’n wych hefyd!”

Mae Marchnad Ffermwyr Llanymddyfri yn arddangos amrywiaeth eang o fwyd a diod o ansawdd a wnaed yng Nghymru. Mae hyn yn cynnwys cig o borfa fel eidion, ŵyn, moch a defaid, ynghyd â llysiau gwyrdd ffres, mêl a chaws defaid a gafr. O gwrw, seidr, ysbrydion a chynnyrch distyll i jamiau, piclau, marmaledau a chacennau heb glwten. O fadarch i drwythau madarch.

Mae hefyd yn cynnig blodau ffres wedi’u torri a phlanhigion cyfeillgar i beillwyr. Mae’r stondinau bwyd stryd yn defnyddio cynhwysion lleol lle bo modd.

Mae Raoul Bhambral yn gwahodd pawb,

“Dewch i weld drosoch eich hun! Ein marchnad nesaf yw ddydd Sadwrn 6 Medi ac fe fyddem wrth ein boddau’n eich gweld yno. Dewch â’ch waled a bag siopa. Un mawr.”

Cyflawnodd Marchnad Ffermwyr Llanymddyfri ofynion y cynllun yn rhagorol. Tri o’r egwyddorion allweddol yw:

Pencampwyr y ffermwyr – gall cwsmeriaid brynu’n uniongyrchol gan y ffermwyr, y tyfwyr a’r cynhyrchwyr a dyfodd, fagodd neu a wnaeth y cynnyrch sy’n cael ei werthu ac sy’n ei werthu eu hunain

Balch o’n tarddiad – gall cwsmeriaid gael cyngor a gwybodaeth am y cynnyrch gan gynnwys sut y cafodd ei gynhyrchu o’r cae i’r fforc

Blaenoriaethu’r lleol – recriwtir stondinwyr o mor agos i’r farchnad â phosibl

Bydd y farchnad nesaf ddydd Sadwrn 6 Gorffennaf ym Maes y Farchnad, Llanymddyfri.

Mae’r ymgyrch Mwy na Bwyd yn ymwneud â chysylltu pobl â’u cyflenwyr lleol ac â manteision siopa mewn marchnadoedd ffermwyr a siopau fferm. Llysgennad yr ymgyrch yw Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, noddwr y FRA. Dysgwch fwy yn https://farmretail.co.uk/more-than-food/