Popular food market returning to Fife

The monthly Market Weekend at Bowhouse, between Elie and St Monans, are free to attend, giving visitors the opportunity to meet, discuss and taste food and drink from Scotland’s best artisan producers.

A destination for food and drink, Bowhouse was formed as a space for local artisan producers to work in a collective space. The Market Weekends welcome the best of local and Scottish producers for a two-day showcase of their products, with demonstrations, local musical performances and hands-on activities for all ages.

The next Market Weekends will be held on March 14-15, 10am-4pm; April 11 and 12, 10am-4pm; and May 9 and 10, 10am-4pm.

The March Market Weekend will have a coasts and waters theme, tying the Visit Scotland Coasts and Waters theme for 2020.

There will also be coastal walks which will depart from Bowhouse for seaweed foraging and demonstrations for gathering and preparing bounty from the shore. The RSPB will be in attendance, with a series of bird themed activities for children as well as coastal bird spotting.

The following month, the Market Weekend will have an organic theme. Organic traders will include Futtle Organic, the brewery and distillery based at Bowhouse and the market trader The Wright Root who will selling fruit and vegetables from their small holding.

In the street food area, Falkland Kitchen Farm will be selling a selection of hot and cold treats made from their own seasonal produce. Balcaskie Estate will be selling their own organic, beef and lamb. Food writer and campaigner, Andrew Whitely from Scotland the Bread, which has its mill at Bowhouse, will invite people into the mill to see the full process.

The Soil Association will be the education partner, hosting fun and informative workshops for children to learn about soil health for growing plants and feeding animals.

The May Market Weekend will celebrate wild food and foraging partnering with the Foraging Fortnight festival.

Visitors will be able to learn about all kinds of food, drink which uses seasonal wild plants and flowers. There will be a class on sustainable harvesting along the shoreline, and hedgerow foraging for all ages. The partner charity at this market will be the Ecology Centre, who will be hosting children’s woodland craft workshops. They will also be selling products which have been hand-made at the Ecology Centre.