Stallholder Dave fears farmers’ market may go way of Town’s

Tuesday 18th January 2011, 1:00PM GMT.

Dave Gorvel PEOPLE need to support the Manor Farmers’ Market if they want to stop it becoming just another tourist attraction, according to one stallholder.

Grower Dave Gorvel (pictured) was concerned about the decline in the number of stalls at the weekly market.

‘There are only about 10 today,’ he said on Saturday.

‘The locals come in to get just the odd thing, rather than to do their weekly shop.’

He feared that the market might follow the route of the Town Markets, becoming a tourist attraction rather than a thriving working market for locals.

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Dani

January 18, 2011 at 1:23 pm

At which manor are they and at what times and days does the market operate?

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Expat80

January 18, 2011 at 5:48 pm

Buying ORGANIC vegetables and fruit direct from our local grower or ‘farmer’ is the healthiest way we can get our food, complete with easily-washable soil left on it too if necessary. So where are the majority of Guernsey people buying their vegetables and fruits, and why? Is it local? Or is it ‘imported’? Answers please?

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Mrs Pen

January 19, 2011 at 1:36 am

Give the local growers your support BUY LOCAL
at the markets.
LOCAL people do your bit SUPPORT your farmers.
Otherwise all it will be is supermarket on the islands getting your business.
BUY from your Guernsey farmers give them your business not the supermarkets.
Support YOUR Guersney farmers.

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