Farmers' Market monthly schedule 2026

 

Farmers' Market monthly schedule 2026

1st Saturday    Balham
1st Sunday       Blackheath

2nd Saturday  Ealing

3rd Saturday   Wimbledon

3rd Sunday      Blackheath

Please note:

We have a limited supply of milk and most is already reserved for existing customers.  If you are interested in getting milk at any of our markets, then please contact us in advance - you will be advised if there is anything available for you on the evening before the market

Email:  ellie@elliesdairy.co.uk

Tel: 07770 777970  (text is best!)

Farmers Market Monthly Schedule 2025

 

Farmers Market monthly schedule 2025

1st Saturday    Balham
1st Sunday       Blackheath

2nd Saturday  Ealing

3rd Saturday   Wimbledon

Please note:

We have limited milk available for sale and already have a lot of existing regular customers.  We run a waiting list for each market (and for mail order) so if you would like to add your name to the list, please let us know.  You will be contacted once there is milk available for you.

Email:  ellie@elliesdairy.co.uk

Tel: 07770 777970  (text is best!)

Farmers' Market Monthly Schedule 2024

 

Farmers' Market monthly schedule 2024

1st Saturday    Balham
1st Sunday       Blackheath

2nd Saturday  Ealing

3rd Saturday   Wimbledon 

Last Sunday (4th or 5th Sunday) Winchester (Hants)

Please note:

We have limited milk available and most is already allocated to existing regular customers.  Any spare milk will be allocated to those on a 'reserve' list which will be held for each market.  If you would like to add your name to the reserve list, please let us know as soon as possible and, if there is any milk available, you will be notified by text on the evening before market.   Please note that it is very unlikely that there will be any milk available for general on-the-day sale at markets.

Email:  ellie@elliesdairy.co.uk

Tel: 07770 777970  (text is best!)

Farmers' Market Monthly Schedule 2023

 

Farmers' Market monthly schedule 2023

1st Saturday    Balham
1st Sunday       Blackheath

2nd Saturday  Ealing

3rd Saturday   Wimbledon 

4th Saturday    Water Lane Walled Garden (between Cranbrook & Hawkhurst, Kent)
Last Sunday (4th or 5th Sunday) Winchester (Hants)

Please note:

It's that time of year again!  

As we wait patiently for our girls to start kidding in the spring, we have very limited milk available.  Please reserve your milk a few days in advance of market to avoid disappointment as it is unlikely that we will have any spare milk for sale at market for the next few months.

Email:  ellie@elliesdairy.co.uk

Tel: 07770 777970  (text is best!)

Farmers' markets monthly schedule 2022

Farmers' Market monthly schedule 2023

1st Saturday    Balham
1st Sunday       Blackheath

2nd Saturday  Ealing

3rd Saturday   Wimbledon 
Last Sunday (4th or 5th Sunday) Winchester (Hants)

Please note:

It's that time of year again!  

As we wait patiently for our girls to start kidding in the spring, we have very limited milk available.  Please reserve your milk a few days in advance of market to avoid disappointment as it is unlikely that we will have any spare milk for sale at market for the next few months.

Email:  ellie@elliesdairy.co.uk

Tel: 07770 777970  (text is best!)

Farmers' Market monthly schedule:


1st Saturday     South Kensington & Balham
1st Sunday       Blackheath & Romsey (Hants)

2nd Saturday  Alton (Hants)

2nd Sunday    Winchester (Hants)

3rd Saturday   Wimbledon & Ealing
4th Saturday   Notting Hill & Twickenham
Last Sunday (4th or 5th Sunday) Winchester (Hants)

Please note:

It's that time of year again!  As we go into winter, milk production is now dropping.  Please reserve your milk in advance of market to avoid disappointment as it is unlikely that we will have very much spare milk for sale at market for the next few months.

Email:  ellie@elliesdairy.co.uk

Tel: 07770 777970

  

'Twas the night before Christmas ...

Well, we made it through another festive season and have landed on Xmas Eve still in one piece, though a little weary ... The dairy fairies have done a fabulous job of keeping our market stalls and counters stocked with yummy cheese, Joe has worked his little goatie socks off at Borough Market and the goats are completely oblivious to any of the chaos going on around them!

And now the fridges are all empty, the last hampers have been delivered and I am tucking into some scrummylicious truffle Brie from our friends at Allsop & Walker .. You can never ever ever have too much cheese! 

And so it only remains for me to thank all our customers for their support over the past few weeks and to wish everyone a Very Merry Xmas!!

As is now traditional, I leave you with a delightful piece written by a goatkeeper in Wales.

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There is a very lovely ancient tradition that holds that on Christmas eve, at midnight, animals are given the power of speech. I’ve even heard it said that at midnight, all the animals sing songs of praise.

Walking into the warm barn, coming in from the icy, windy dark outside, it’s easy to believe this lovely story. I look into the slender faces of my familiar, much loved goats, with their dark eyes and knowing expressions, and I can easily imagine them opening their mouths to sing at midnight. Glenda, Wandi, Patsi, Juliette – I know all their names, and I can tell them all apart, as identical as they might seem to a stranger. I can imagine just how each of their voices might sound, raised in the choir. Juliette rears up her hind legs to have her cheek scratched – just there, by the hinge of her jaw –and to rub her head lovingly against my shoulder.

I come here every day, twice a day, to milk these goats and commune with these lovely animals, and they have taught me a thing or two about miracles.

They have taught me about dedication, and patience, and discipline. Waking up at 6 am on a freezing morning, and going outside sounds like a punishment when I’m wrapped in my duvet. But as soon as I haul myself up and out, and into the barn, I realize the truth of it – coming into the barn is my reward. The teaching really is in the practice – putting my hands on the goats, tending them and receiving the healing milk that they give me, is all I need to know of magic.

The Christian tradition holds that the king is born in midwinter. The pagan tradition too, speaks of rebirth in the time of darkness. It is a principle as old as man, when we were frightened and crouching in the caves, waiting for the light to return. Peasants have milked goats as long as humans have been around, and I follow this time-honored tradition with gratitude now, as the warm streams of milk hit my pail in a fragmented melody.

In that song, I can hear everything I need to know about rebirth. These goats are pregnant in the darkness, gestating new life. In the spring the kids will be born, and the milk will be freshened. The life force dies back, and blossoms up again. New life. It is a miracle that we few – who are lucky enough to tend the farm – learn over again with our hands and feet, arms and eyes and hearts, every year without fail.

Christmas eve, in the darkness – the goats and I wait together in the silence. We wait for the rebirth that is certain. It is certain as life, certain as breath, as certain as the knowledge that someday, spring will come again and light will return to the world.

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