Driffield Farmers’ Market: Local Produce from East Riding of Yorkshire
Farmers’ markets offer an ideal alternative to a bland shopping experience that is found more and more often in today’s supermarkets and high street shops.
The benefits
of this system are threefold:
These exacting standards naturally mean that only the highest quality produce reaches your table.
Markets cut out the middlemen and allow you to deal directly with the producers of the goods on sale.
It means that the person producing the goods gets a fair price;
It means you get very high quality produce which is 100% traceable;
It means the goods have not travelled half way across the world to reach you!
The Farmers’ Market at Driffield Showground is an excellent example of what a farmers’ market should be.
The Driffield Agricultural Society ensures that all source producers travel for no more than 35 miles. Another standard which the society insists upon is that someone involved in the production of the produce is present at each stall to answer questions.
Driffield sits in a rich agricultural area: this is fully represented at the market, with everything from high quality pork products to homemade cheeses and honey; the town’s close proximity to the sea also means that there are many high quality fishmongers selling fish freshly caught that morning. 
Choosing to come to a Farmers’ Market means that you are supporting local producers who take great pride in their goods rather than the mass produced offerings of the supermarkets. The quality here is first class, and the success of markets like Driffield will be strong determining factors in the survival of our agricultural heritage; to lose what is on show here would be a tragedy.
Driffield itself is a great place for a day out: once you have enjoyed everything that the Farmers’ Market has to offer, there are many great shops for those that want more; you could choose to visit one of the many Manor Houses or Elizabethan Halls which the area boasts; or there is the UK’s largest seabird colony just a few miles away at Bempton.
Driffield’s rich agricultural diversity, beautiful town, and exacting standards of the market organisers, make this Market well worth a visit!
Driffield Farmers’ Market takes place on the first Saturday of each month between 9.00am and 1.00pm. 
Address:
Driffield Showground
Kelleythorpe
Driffield
East Yorkshire
YO25 9DN
Tel: 01377 257494
Website: Driffield Agricultural Society