All of our food stall holders hold at least 5 star hygiene ratings and have been trained and have a good understanding in food and hygiene safety practices. All exposed foods on display are covered with sneeze guards or the like and allergens and food intolerances notices are displayed.
All stall holders hold Public Liability Insurance.
Please review our Covid-19 procedures here.
Our regular food and craft stalls are:
Borakis Greek Foods olives, olive oil, stuffed peppers, goats and sheep cheese and yoghurt, mountain honey, spinach pie, baclava, hummus, etc
Cambridge Artisan Cheese delicious, creamy waxed cheeses in 11 different flavours plus gift boxes and hampers full of fabulous product
CB21 Cheesecake Company cheesecake, fudges and chocolate sweets
Jane’s Cupcakes Steeple Bumpstead cupcakes with seasonal toppings, brownies and filled meringue cases
Kettle Leaf Artisan Tea Emporium artisan loose leaf teas
Macarons by Kiwi Debs handmade gluten free meringue based cookies sandwiched with flavoured chocolate ganache and buttercream
Messiah Mushrooms oyster mushrooms grown in Balsham
Nikki’s Homemade Preserves award winning jams, chutneys, marmalades, sweet vinegars
Crafts:
Home Grown Gnomes unique handcrafted homemade gnomes
Studio 50 Glass Designs handmade fused glass jewellery, pictures and cards
Reeves Family Crafted handmade hair accessories, book masks
Turn and Burn hand crafted wooden gifts
Below is more information about our stall holders.
Remember to love your market and do support local small businesses, the local economy and British farming.
Borakis Greek Foods
Sample a bit of Crete in you your own home. Borakis Greek Foods, a small family business run by Yannis and Anne Borakis specialise in healthy natural foods that make up the Cretan diet. In Crete, they use a lot of olive oil and use it in cooking, not just salads, it is even used in their cakes and pastries as well as cooking chips! It is more than a cooking oil, it is a flavouring ingredient. This is the main reason why the Cretan diet is so healthy.
Yannis started importing his own olive oil from his father’s farm a barrel at a time and fairly soon friends who came to eat were asking if they could buy some. He then decided to have it bottled and imported to the UK.
His family has been farming for generations in the White mountains of North-Western Crete. After the success of the olive oil, he asked his uncle to send some of their traditional cheeses. These are all produced from goat and sheep milk (no cows on Crete!) and hand-made according to traditional methods. Then Yannis asked his brother who keeps bees to send over Cretan Thyme honey which has a strong flavour and it is much prized in Greece and around the world. Yannis and Anne will also be selling their infamous spinach pies ‘Spanakopita’ made from their delicious sheep cheese, and all pastry is made according to a traditional recipe using their Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Borakis Greek Food also offer a delivery service every Friday. Please contact them on info@borakisgreekfood.co.uk They also attend a few farmers markets every weekend: Linton, Steeple Bumpstead, Impington and Shelford as well as the Ely Markets.
Cambridge Artisan Cheese
Emma and William are a small family business specialising in delicious, creamy waxed cheeses in 11 different flavours plus gift boxes and hampers full of fabulous products. Flavours including the apricot and chilli one, the charcoal one, the smoked one and the black pepper one.
You can follow them on Facebook and Instagram.
CB21 CheeseCake Company
Based in Balsham, Glynis hand-makes all of her mouth watering cheesecakes along with fudge.
Glynis also sells her fudges and cheesecakes at Wilbrahams’ Farmers Markets.
Jane’s Cupcakes Steeple Bumpstead
Cupcakes are brought to life by Jane Blackman in her kitchen in Steeple Bumsptead. Jane was formerly A Directors Chef in The City until the arrival of her two boys forced her into early retirement!
Jane’s cupcakes and large celebration cakes are all homemade and hand-iced, using only the very loveliest of things including free range eggs and Belgian chocolate curls. Jane’s Cupcakes make a beautifully different type of gift, whether to just say thank you, or for a special occasion, or even to prove just how fashionable and clever you are to give cupcakes.
You can also find Jane at the following farmers markets: Fowlmere and Steeple Bumsptead’s Farmers Markets.
Jane will also receive commissions to make celebration cakes for that special occasion. Visit her website for more details.
Kettle Leaf Artisan Tea Emporium
Kettle Leaf is a small independent artisan tea company based in the heart of Cambridge. Following many visits to tea houses and gardens, Carole and Karsten wanted to share their love and passion for tea with you.
They attend many markets. You can follow them on Instagram and Facebook
Macarons by Kiwi Debs
Delicious homemade gluten free meringue based cookies: a small, fine, light and slightly chewy dessert with a ruffled foot, a distinctive feature of the macaron. Macarons made with almond flour, egg white, granulated and icing sugar with flavoured chocolate ganache such as strawberry white chocolate ganache, passionfruit white chocolate ganache, raspberry milk chocolate ganache, salted caramel milk chocolate ganache, plus much more.
You can also follow Debbie on Instagram.
Messiah Mushrooms
Growing fresh oyster mushrooms in Balsham. Oyster mushrooms contain complex carbohydrates which naturally boost the immune system by optimising responses to diseases and infections. Direct message for delicious, immune boosting oyster mushrooms. You can purchase by punnet or grow your own kits too.
Nikki’s Homemade Preserves
Award-winning Nikki’s Homemade Preserves is based in Burwell and makes all of her delicious homemade chutneys, jams, marmalades at home. She sells her preserves right across East Anglia, either served as part of the menu in local restaurants or sold as products in farms, markets such as Burwell market and eateries.
Nikki has a great relationship with local suppliers and where she sources her strong, seasonable ingredients and traditional style products. Only the best ingredients are used and are carefully, ethically, and locally sourced where possible.
Nikki loves to experiment with unusual flavours to produce foods you will rarely find in the shops such as Seville Orange and Brandy Marmalade or Sloe Gin Juniper Jelly.
Nikki also makes special cakes for birthdays and events and is happy to receive cake commissions. Find out more on her website.
Home Grown Gnomes
Based in Balsham, Home Grown Gnomes was a hobby which got out of hand and turned into a small business. Each gnome is handmade with each one being unique. They are for decorative purposes and not made as toys.
Read Su’s story here.
You can follow Home Grown Gnomes on Instagram and Facebook.
Reeves Family Crafted
Lisa hand makes all of her scrunchies, hairbands, pouches, bookmarks from home. All of her designs are inspired by Disney.
Studio 50 Glass Design
Based in Streetly End, Shirley makes all of her handmade fused glass jewellery.
Turn and Burn
Tony and Linda Cooke are small crafters specialising in wood turned gifts.
If you wish to enquire about becoming a stall holder please apply here.
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