In a damp, cold and blustery Cornish winter you really do need something good to draw you away from the comfort of a roaring fire, and a vegan market in the heart of the county might be just the thing to add a little warm glow to your weekend.
On Saturday 18th January, Par Market and Food Hall hosts a Vegan and Sustainability Market. Founded in the 1970's Par Market, near St Austell, has grown from a Sunday outdoor market into one of the largest indoor markets in the UK, with over 70 stalls to browse, and now with the addition of a Food Hall.
The Vegan and Sustainability Market throws open its doors on the 18th at 9.30am and continues on until 5.30pm and has attracted a multitude of local traders dealing with vegan, fair trade, sustainable, cruelty free products and services. Included among them are Open Heart Studio, Little Acorn Bakery, and Raw Indulgence; all on hand to deal with your sweet treat needs. For your beauty needs The Mindful Hive will be supplying their range of soaps and shampoos and Iris Bluebird will be there with her selection of health and well being products. For your naked skin and fur babies there will be Just Jonah with their organic baby and children's wear and Peace Treats with their range of vegan pet treats. Sadly your dog companions will have to trust you to choose for them in regards to the latter because only assistance dogs are allowed in the market. For grown up clothing and accessorising there will be Love Cork (really looking forward to that one) with their range of vegan and sustainable corkiness. Also, as we all daydream about the balmier warmer months of getting out into the garden, and the start of the main growing season, The Naturally Vegan Plot will be on hand to advise about all things green fingered and veganic. This is just a small selection of those attending so do check the Facebook event page for an up to date listing.
With all that browsing you are bound to want a sit down and a munch (if you haven't gorged on the sweet treats). Huckleberries from Bodmin will be on hand to fill us up, with their delicious burgers. There will also be a range of vegan food available in the food hall including chilli, burritos and nut roast. In fact Par Market and Food Hall are advertising vegan food availability not just on the day of the Vegan Market but also on Sunday 19th January too, in an event which runs from 11am - 4.30pm each day called The Big Vegan Feast Weekend. You can buy advanced tickets for your roast dinner meal, for either the Saturday or the Sunday with adult meals at £8 (children £4).
It is certainly shaping up to be one of those weekends when it won't matter if, to put it in the Cornish way, a skenny* blows in or it's vady** and unkid***. It can be as gashly**** as it likes with all that fab vegan stuff going on indoors down in Par!
* A sharp, gusty wind.
** Misty and damp.
*** Dreary and gloomy.
**** Ghastly and horrible.
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