New Farmer's Market at the Butlerstown Retail Park Kickoff with Easter Egg Hunt

angelfalling

Easter Egg Hunt on at 1pm!


We have lots of great stalls confirmed for tomorrow Indulge Bakery with artisan breads, Pat Hartley with fresh fish, The Boho Kitchen with fantastic baked goods, Roly's Fudge from Kinsale, Over the Bar with great toasties and coffee, Rom will be there with his amazing crepes, PineGroveFarm will have free-range pork and will be cooking up a storm on the BBQ, Ballynacourty Veg are bring a huge stall for all your fruit and veg needs, Crough Farm will have local farmed venision and BBQ on the the go, Azzurro will be cooking a paella on site, The Little Apple Company from Piltown will have local apples, juices and flowers available, Rachel Hartrey will have her lovely soups, breads and flapjacks, Wollen Wonders with knitwear, Annies Design also, Hilltop Holistics will have their homemade cosmetics. We have a lot more craft stalls yet to confirm. Dont forget about First Class Castles ! They are bringing not one but two bouncy castles for the day. We will aslo have face painters and an Easter Egg hunt for the kids.
So come on down tomorrow folks , the weather is looking good and it's set to be a great family day out. Grab some breakfast or lunch and enjoy with a coffee or hot chocolate in our seating area.
Don't forget to enter our competition for a hamper of items from the market, we will be drawing the winner at 22.00 tonight. Good Luck

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Bards

...... I wonder how they got planning permission for that, doesn't seem like bulk goods to me:rolleyes:

angelfalling

Em, its not a permanent establishment? They are pop tents... It's being run independently from the retail park, they are simply allowing it to set up weekly.

Bards

angelfalling wrote: »

Em, its not a permanent establishment? They are pop tents... It's being run independently from the retail park, they are simply allowing it to set up weekly.

...so is unit 8 some kind of pop up tent unit?

angelfalling

It's in front of unit 8. In the car park.

Bards

angelfalling wrote: »

It's in front of unit 8. In the car park.

And why does the ad say unit 8 and not the car park?

Bit of misleading advertisment no doubt especially if the weather is crap and everyone is expecting it to be indoors?

deisemum

I'm looking forward to it.

gscully

Bards wrote: »

And why does the ad say unit 8 and not the car park?

Bit of misleading advertisment no doubt especially if the weather is crap and everyone is expecting it to be indoors?

Went out this morning. If you wanted soup, tomato and basil was your only option. If you wanted a sausage, it was venison. For each child the bouncy castle was €3. Disappointing really.

homolumo

gscully wrote: »

Went out this morning. If you wanted soup, tomato and basil was your only option. If you wanted a sausage, it was venison. For each child the bouncy castle was €3. Disappointing really.

Sadly I have to agree but hopefully it will be a success in the long run. It is a good spot to have a market and the retail park needs a lift with B&Q closing.

old gregg

Was a time when folks would be creaming at the thought of tomato and basil soup, and as for the venison, that was for rich foreigners with tans in tweed. Now you get it in the car park outside the infamous 'Unit 8' along with a bounce on the castle and you're all turning your noses up like you're from the swanky end of Saint-Tropez

deisemum

gscully wrote: »

Went out this morning. If you wanted soup, tomato and basil was your only option. If you wanted a sausage, it was venison. For each child the bouncy castle was €3. Disappointing really.

Pine Grove Farm had a variety of sausages and they were delicious.

gscully

deisemum wrote: »

Pine Grove Farm had a variety of sausages and they were delicious.

I was there too early

You get the impression from the advert that the bouncy castle and face-painting were free just like at wedding fairs, but alas not.

danjo-xx

Unit 8 to the left of Harvey Norman

I thought there was only open fields to the left of HN:P


Good to see anything happening out there now, a little coffee shop might do well.

angelfalling

It's being run by the local producers, serious money went in to the advertising to get people out there... along with tables, chairs, music... it would have been an enormous cost to hire and maintain a free bouncy castle and face painting. Wedding fairs can afford to do that, because they charge €400 for a vendor table. You can't afford that when you are given local food and crafts people an affordable place to display their wares. The Easter Egg hunt was free.

There were pressed sandwiches, hamburgers, paella, venison sausage AND pork sausages/hamburgers/breakfast blaas available in terms of hot food. If you were disappointed that the only soup available was tomato and basil I suggest you look somewhere other than a farmer's market for hot soup to go...

Had great feedback from the 1000+ people who passed through on the day, we're hoping it'll be a continued success every Saturday morning. We actually have permission to set up inside that unit on days with bad weather, once people are aware the market is there rain or shine every week.