Our last market of the year, at Hoghton Tower, went really well. We sold out of soup and black peas even though I had made twice as much as usual. Now I can have a Christmas break. Luckily the weather was sunny even though it was very cold and snowy.
Here's our festive set up at the Hornby Christmas Market. Thanks to everyone who bought anything! Only Hoghton Tower left now, on Sunday, and then we are closed for Christmas.
Yesterday we were at Mere Brow Farmers Market selling cheese, cheese and potato bakes and spanakopita. It went well despite the weather being miserable and the wind trying to blow our gazebo away all day. Here's a couple of photos of setting up.
We still did well at Bromley Cross Farmers Market this month, though the weather was really grim. We sold lots of cheese and some of our Carrot and Red Lentil soup. Also we managed to sell three ice creams, two of which were our special Christmas Pudding Ice Cream. We will be back once it starts up again in March.
Hornby Farmers market was good this month. We were selling cheese, ice cream, cheese and potato bakes, spanakopita and cheese biscuits.
Hoghton Tower Farmers Market went well this month. We were selling ice cream and then hot black peas and our spicy Moroccan Chickpea soup as shown above. We sold out of black peas and sold nearly all the spicy chickpea soup.
Appley Bridge was pretty good this month. We were selling cheese, ice cream and our cheese and potato bakes as made by my dad.
Yesterday we were at Bromley Cross Farmers Market for the last sunny day of the year. I hope thats not true, but it was lovely and sunny. We were selling cheese, ice cream and our new cheese biscuits. It was a good day but a bit quieter than we were expecting, a lot of people must have made the most of the sun and gone out for the day, perhaps to the seaside.
The Guide Dogs Open Day in Atherton on Sunday went brilliantly. It went really hot and sunny in the afternoon which was very lucky as Saturday's weather was horrible and so is Monday. We sold out of all our black peas and ice cream. Thanks everyone!
Hoghton Tower had better weather this month after many months of rainy days. We did well selling our ice cream and black peas. We sold lots of our whinberry ice cream, picked from the wilds of Winter Hill.
Nether Kellett Farmers Market was much better this month. We were selling our spanakopita (as seen above) which are filo pastry stuffed with spinach, courgette, mint, onions, lemon and crumbly Lancashire cheese. They are very nice, if I say so myself. Which I do. We sold out of them so will be bringing them again to some of our markets.
It was the Harpers Lane Allotments Open Day on Sunday. Even though the weather wasn't great we did really well, selling ice cream and cheese. It was our best day ever! Here's a photo of some of the scarecrows the allotment holders had made, and the stage where they had a band and Appalachian dancing.
Today we were at Gatley Farmers Market selling ice cream. It's just next to the Horse and farrier pub. I was hoping to sell out of ice cream early so we could go for a beer, but sadly we still had some left at the end. Tomorrow it's Marple Farmers Market, should be a good day as the weather forecast is great.
Another very good market today at Appley bridge. Thanks Appley Bridge! We were selling ice cream, cheese and cheese and potato bakes.
We had a great day on Sunday at Marple Farmers Market. It went incredibly hot and sunny due to the heat wave and we managed to sell out of all our ice creams. Hurray!
