Facebook: Cardiff Farmers Market Fanclub Twitter @RCMAmarkets 'PUTTING OUR BEST FOOD FORWARD!' RCMA stands for Riverside Community Market Association. We are a Cardiff based non-profit Social Enterprise, and we believe that it is good for health, for the environment and for the local economy if everyone has access to delicious, fresh, locally produced food - food that doesn't 'cost the earth'! Items for sale at RCMA’s farmers’ markets include: bread, jam, cakes, cheese, vegetables, fruits, eggs, biscuits, pork, beef, lamb, goat, game, fish, chicken, duck, plants, vegetarian burgers, crepes, scotch eggs, meat pies and pasties, smoked fish, fruit and fruit juice, Asian ready meals, middle eastern ready meals, Welsh ready meals, vegetarian ready meals, jams, chutneys, pate, crepes, olives, cider, beer, charcuterie, wild mushrooms.
At our four farmers markets in Cardiff you can get the
tastiest, freshest, healthiest food available anywhere - without it 'costing the
earth'!
ALL OF OUR STALLHOLDERS RAISE, GROW OR MAKE WHAT THEY SELL!
They are dedicated to producing the very best food for you.
(Many are Wales True Taste Award winners)
Some of our farmers are certified organic - all use
sustainable and humane production methods. All other items are made with fresh,
local ingredients.
This is the 'unique selling point' of RCMA's farmers'
markets - and why so many loyal customers come back to us week after week.
(We do allow a couple of guest stalls outside of this
criteria because they are so popular, such as the olive stall (who make all
their own marinades at their base in Maesteg) and the ‘Flying Fishmonger’ seafood
stall - who only buys line-caught fish and sustainably produced seafood.
We have regular special events at our markets, such as cooking demonstrations and activities for kids. Sign up for our newsletter to be kept in touch!
We have
had some good public recognition for our work. In 2010
and 2009 RCMA won gold at the Wales True Taste Awards, and scooped
Social
Enterprise of The Year at the 2010 South Wales Business Awards! RCMA was shortlisted for the Radio 4
Food and Farming Awards in 2009 for the third time (I think this is a
record!),
and we previously won three Welsh awards for our outreach and education
work:
Diversity Awards Wales; and - 'Award for
Food Action Locally’. Awards also garnered
by RCMA for our markets include: Wales True Taste Gold Award (2009) ;
Metro
Wales - "Local Food Hero" award (2007); UKTV Food Heroes Award -
Regional Finalist (2005); Environment Wales '10 of the Best'
award (2003); Community
Enterprise Wales: 'Top 10 Regenerators' award (2003).
R.C.M.A. has
also
received recognition in national media: In December 2008
Riverside Market was rated 4th in the Daily Telegraph’s Top 10 U.K.
Christmas
Markets; In February 2009 Riverside Market featured 5th in The Times’
website list
of the top twelve farmers’ markets in the U.K.; and on the Local Food
Advisor
website we are listed as one of the top ten farmers’ markets out of
‘more that
800 markets’ across the UK in 2010!
