Country Markets offer a truly local shopping experience and a warm welcome!
Baldock Country Market offer refreshments – a place to catch up with friends and enjoy a coffee – and a place to browse a variety of locally hand made items and baked goods created locally.
On an average week you can expect a variety of local produce, seasonal fruit and veg as well as locally grown plants and a wide variety of homemade crafts and home baked goods.
The Producers pride themselves on keeping traditional home cooking, home growing and hand-crafted items alive, as well as creating the latest up to date produce.
Who are Country Markets?
For more than 90 years a network of Country Markets has been selling homemade baked goods, preserves and home grown fruit, vegetables, plants and handmade crafts across England, Wales and the Channel Islands, as well as participating in farmers' markets and other local markets and food fairs. Visitors to these markets can buy a variety of produce – almost anything local and seasonal that can be produced in a domestic kitchen or garden.
Country Markets also sell meat, fish and dairy goods, honey, and eggs from local small producers.
Country Markets is a co-operative social enterprise with about 12,000 members of local county societies working under the umbrella of Country Markets Ltd of which the societies are the members. Our aim is to promote diverse and delicious local food to the public and our organisation prides itself on the quality of its products and for keeping traditions alive, as well as creating friendly shopping environments.
What we offer
- A unique Market experience;
- Reduced Food Miles;
- Helpful tips and advice. Even special orders for our goods;
- A chance to support your local community and its crafts people;
- A great selection of wholesome, high quality, hand crafted and home-baked goods as well as a selection of locally grown produce;
- Seasonal food e.g. runner beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and courgettes, sprouting broccoli, raw local honey, seasonal jams, chutneys and condiments;
- Help with grow your own. We have a wide range of vegetable, herbaceous, bedding & herb plants when in season;
- Positive encouragement to recycle jam jars by returning them to us so that we can make gorgeous preserves.
- We do a small local delivery to premises who would like us to and to one or two housebound customers.