The Food Market’s story began at the first CPTT AGM in 2012 and I discovered the market a few months after it opened in 2013 when I was walking along Westow Street and bumped into two obviously daft men dressed as giant carrots holding arrows pointing down Haynes Lane.
It is an exciting week for Crystal Palace Food Market with the BBC Food & Farming awards ceremony on Thursday 30th. Organisers of the market, Karen and Laura, will be at the ceremony in Bristol to find out which Food Market will come home with first prize, but whatever the outcome, being placed in the top three food markets in the country is pretty exciting news!
The Food Market’s story began at the first CPTT AGM in 2012 and I discovered the market a few months after it opened in 2013 when I was walking along Westow Street and bumped into two obviously daft men dressed as giant carrots holding arrows pointing down Haynes Lane. By Lou Yates Many people wonder what happens to the food bank items collected every Saturday at Crystal Palace Food Market. So, on a cold snowy Tuesday morning I went on a ride along with the indomitable pair of women, Karen and Laura who set up and run the market, to see what happens to it all. We headed to St Luke's Church in West Norwood with the goodies donated from last Saturday's market. Contributions are usually much bigger Karen assured me (awful weather tends to dent the footfall at the market) and she also took care to show me the not- so- good items that sometimes end up in the donations bucket stationed at the Haynes Lane end of the market. A sad uncooked chicken lurked dangerously at the bottom of a carrier bag. |
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