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We kick off at our popular farmers market in Colchester – held on the Piazza outside the Mercury Theatre. A fantastic mix of high quality food & crafts stalls plus some great street food.

Saturday 3rd October 9.30am – 2pm

Next up is our award winning town centre farmers market in Bury St Edmunds – running down The Traverse with over 40 food and craft stalls.

Sunday 11th October – 10am – 3pm

Clare Craft Market is back on Saturday 24th October at its regular home in the Clare Town Hall. 25 great craft stalls awaiting for you with some excellent x-mas gift ideas.

Sunday 24th October – 10am – 4pm

We’re back at Lavenham Village Hall on Sunday 25th October for our award winning farmers market starting at 10am and following that we will be at Sudbury Farmers Market on Friday 30th October running up Market Hill at 9.30am – 2pm.

As always we will have a great selection of local food, wine and craft as well as some delicious street food.

We look forward to seeing you there.

First we kick off with Sudbury Farmers Market on Market Hill this Friday, August 28th with so many great stallholders including Lisa’s Farmhouse Kitchen who is returning for her second farmers market with us. Following a hugely successful market last month, Lisa has increased her product list, and after customer feedback and suggestions, she will be adding Cheese & Onion Bread, French Fougasse and Turkish Bread with Sesame Seeds to her already delicious list! Expect sourdoughs, baguettes, yeast loaves, rolls, baguettes and focaccia to be piled high on her stall this Friday, alongside her new additions!

We can’t wait to welcome everyone to Market Hill, this Friday from 9.30am

And then this Sunday’s Lavenham Craft & Foodie Market, why wouldn’t you want to visit!

Food, drink, art, jewellery, plants, street food, ceramics, flowers and plants will be filling Lavenham Village Hall, Glebe Field and the Village Hall grounds and it’s totally free to enter. Bring your shopping bag, friends, dogs and your appetite and enjoy celebrating eighteen years of our markets in Lavenham!

The Classic Car Show will be taking place on the playing fields too and of course, all the gorgeous shops, pubs and cafes will be open in the village too.

Lavenham Craft & Foodie Market

Sunday August 30th

10am – 4pm

Lavenham, CO10 9QT

Parking is available in all of the village car parks plus there is additional parking available at the Car Show where it will cost £5 to park all day.

Trader applications are now open for the 2026 Taste of East Anglia Food & Drink Festival which will take place on Saturday June 13th outside Kentwell Hall in Long Melford, Suffolk.
We welcome applications from top quality producers of artisan food and drink products and Street Food vendors as well as handmade crafts. This event showcases the very best in our region so you must be located within East Anglia in order to apply.
To submit your application please visit the festival website (link below) complete your details and submit it directly back to us via the site. Please add as much information about your product on application.
We go through each application individually in order to curate the best event so it may be a couple of weeks before you hear whether you have been successful.
Good Luck!
https://www.tasteofeastanglia.co.uk/trade-at-the-festival/

We have a special Christmas Sudbury Farmers Market on Friday 28th November on Market Hill in the centre of Sudbury. We will have our regular strong range of over 25 local traders including fresh and local meat and vegetables, fresh bread, donuts, cakes and bakes, cheese and pies as well as handmade crafts, soaps and candles.

Plus some special surprises……..all to get you ready for the Christmas Lights Switch On later in the day

Market Hill, Sudbury, 9.30am – 2pm

Let’s get festive, let’s get local and be sure to find some joy!

The festive Suffolk Farmers Market returns to the Cattle Sheds, Trinity Park on Saturday 29th November.

Even bigger and better – this year the market will stretch to over 60 local artisan traders, makers and crafters plus a wonderful selection of street food that kept everyone happy!

Meadow and Woodland Livestock selling Suffolk lamb and pork, The Cheese & Pieman will have their wonderful selection of regional cheeses plus Country Kitchen with their unique Scotch Eggs and sausage rolls and Serendipity with their home made pies.

Look out for Aunty Rees Cookies and their luxury brownies and Crumbs Alive with their swirls and pastries plus unique varieties of fudge come from Woodlands Bakeaway and Yum Yum Tree Fudge. Plus local favourite Hullabaloo with breads, sourdough and pastries.

East Coast Chilli Company will have some hot and even hotter chilli sauces plus make sure you check local Ipswich based Choose Spice and their range of Sri Lankan sauces or Bonnie Yau’s oriental sauces. Jams and chutneys come from Country Cottage Preserves, local honey from Sideways and Quinns Bees, mushrooms/ growing kits from Sporandic Fungi and try out Temprd Chocolate who come with a tasty range of chocolate bars.

Feeling thirsty?  Then there a fantastic range of small batch gins and blackberry vodka from Sunrise Spirits, festive vodkas and rums from the English Distillery & local craft ale from Roughacre Brewery and Jack Rabbit. Cider comes from Suffolk Village Ciders and Cydex. Shotley Vineyard bring a range of their local award winning wines to taste.

There are lots of crafters and makers; ceramics from Blue Fusion Pottery tableware from Country Creations and cushions from the Shrop Shop plus recycled wooden accessories from Lux Vita. For some well-earned, self-indulgent treats don’t miss soap & skincare from Infused with Kindness, candles from Keeping It Rosie plus a range of natural dried flowers from Floral in Equilibrium, fused glass and home accessories from Seasalt & Sage.

Don’t forget to bring your four-legged friends as we have a special area with products and treats for them from The Treat Box.

Hungry? There’s a brilliant range of street food to keep you going all day whilst you are wandering around the Cattle Sheds including locally made chicken burgers and bites from Peck, Sushi from Kokorazashi, Indian street food from Cambridge Samosa Company, burittos from Bad Boy Burritos and bagels from Bagel or Beigel plus really good coffee from the Coffee Station and The Suffolk Coffee Pod.

Justine Paul, owner and founder of Suffolk Market Events stated: The Christmas Suffolk Farmers Market at Trinity Park is just a market full of joy. It is like a culmination of the year with all our favourite producers from all our markets in Suffolk under one roof at the Cattle Sheds. Feast on all the local produce as well some amazing local crafts and arts – it really sets off the Christmas spirit for me  – I know Christmas has truly started when we have this market and I know how popular it has become.

Saturday 29th November

9.30am – 2pm

Suffolk Farmers’ Market at Trinity Park, Ipswich

Free Admission & Free Parking

Dogs very welcome