Pop up produce in Cardiff

Fresh raspberries ripe for the picking

Visitors to Chapter Arts Centre fill their pockets with fresh food each Wednesday, when local suppliers set up mini stalls to sell fresh produce to the community.

Between 4pm and 7pm, a handful of sellers fill Chapter’s entrance with their fresh pickings; from artisan bread to raspberries picked that day.

Gegin Fach, a home-baking company, sells Welsh cakes cooked on the spot using a baking stone, to deliver the true meaning of the Welsh name pice ar y maen (translating to ‘cakes on a bakestone’).

Steve Garrett from Get Ffresh!, an organic food supplier at the event, believes that Chapter is “The ideal location for selling locally sourced produce, with its ethos of quality over mass production”, because after all, “food is culture too”.

Steve Garrett is also the founder of Cardiff’s award winning Riverside Market, and grows all his fresh organic salads and vegetables at the Riverside Market Garden, located just outside Cowbridge.

Steve was also involved with writing the Cardiff Food Charter, which calls for an increase in ‘the demand and supply of fresh, seasonal, local and organic Welsh food throughout the city’.

The charter also suggests different ways in which individuals and companies can get involved with this celebration of local food.

For more information on Steve’s good food revolution and the Cardiff Food Charter head to the What & Why page of Get Ffresh!’s website.