On the first Saturday of every month it's Rode Hall Farmers' Market. It's situated in the grounds of Rode Hall, a fine house with lovely gardens and is one of the best Farmers' Markets I've been to. 
Some of it's outside:
and there's also two big barns full of stalls:
I made the mistake of getting there not particularly early last month and the place was extremely busy, so get there early! A lot of the traders you'll also see at Cloverbank Farmers' Market which is on the third Saturday of the month. You can buy different sorts of mushrooms:
nice pickles and jams from Posh Pickles:
fish and shrimps from an excellent trader I met at Lark Lane Farmers' Market:
and Staffordshire Oatcakes from Kev of London Road Oatcakes:
I was looking forward to having a chat with Kev, but we hardly got chance as there was a continual demand for his oatcakes! Kev now goes to quite a few farmers markets, including Bakewell and Stafford. There's a lady selling Mediterranean specialities like ajuka, baklava, borek (feta cheese with spinach wrapped in thin pastry leaves and topped with cumin seeds),humus, lentil kofte, rice dolma and stuffed peppers:
There's a stand selling fine deserts like blueberry frangipan, lemon tart, vanilla egg custard tart, brownies and carrot cake:
Pure Muffins sells pear hazelnut and milk chocolate muffins, raspberry and white chocolate muffins, rhubarb orange and cranberry muffins or triple chocolate muffins:
At Easter there were some dancers:
who I have to say reminded me of the awful Black and White minstrels that used to perform in the Winter Gardens in Morecambe when I was a doorman there in 1974!
There was also a stall selling ducks and pigs filled with pansies. I bought one in the hope that my garden would look more like Rode Hall's gardens!
Rode Hall Farmers Market
Rode Hall
Scholar Green
Cheshire
ST7 3QP
Tel: 01270 874101
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