Category Archives: Food

Our apo­lo­gies but we have had to can­cel the mar­ket that was due to be held this com­ing Saturday, 7^th January. Unfortunately the num­ber of stall­hold­ers who con­firmed attend­ance are not enough to make run­ning the mar­ket this month viable, and those who were unable to attend include our main sellers of basics like veg, bread, meat and fish. The main reason they are unable to come along is lack of stock, so on the plus side per­haps they have all been selling well over the fest­ive period.

Once again we can only apo­lo­gise, please note the next mar­ket will be held on 4^th February.

With best wishes,

PEDAL

This is an excit­ing oppor­tun­ity to play a key role in grow­ing the local food and craft eco­nomy in Portobello by over­see­ing the pro­mo­tion of Portobello’s monthly mar­ket, and ensur­ing it’s growth and sus­tain­ab­il­ity into the future.  The role is var­ied in nature and would suit someone with skills and exper­i­ence in mar­ket­ing, retail, basic book-keeping, admin­is­tra­tion and work­ing with volun­teers. Candidates should also have a pas­sion for local / organic food and sus­tain­able development.

The suc­cess­ful can­did­ate will be con­trac­ted on a self-employed basis.

Hours of work: 14 hours per month

Wage: £100 (gross) per month on a self-employed basis, plus 15% share of profits (after run­ning costs) paid monthly.

Download the job descrip­tion with per­son spe­cific­a­tion below:

PEDAL Market Coordinator

To be con­sidered for this con­tract, please sub­mit your CV and a cov­er­ing let­ter explain­ing why you want this role and what skills and exper­i­ence you would bring to it, to:

Alternatively you can send them by e-mail to market@pedal-porty.org.uk

Applications should be received no later than 5pm on Thursday 22^nd December.

You should be avail­able for inter­view on Friday 13^th January 2012 and able to start work imme­di­ately in order to co-ordinate the mar­ket on Saturday 4^th February 2012.

This Saturday, 3^rd December, is Portobello Market day! In addi­tion to our reg­u­lar stalls selling mouth-watering locally-produced and sea­sonal food, and local and upcycled crafts, this month we’ll have:

• Porty tapas traders Malvarosa selling hot and cold Spanish specialties
• The choirs of St Martin’s and Portobello Baptist Churches singing Christmas car­ols to get you into a fest­ive mood, and
• We’ll be offer­ing a Christmas Hamper (worth around £100) full of mar­ket good­ies as top prize in our Christmas stall trail competition.

And at the PEDAL stall we’ll be launch­ing our new energy sav­ing advice book­let to help you keep cosy this winter while sav­ing money and energy. Snap up your free copy while stocks last!

Where: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello

When: 9.30am   —   1.30pm

A full list of stall­hold­ers for 3^rd December is avail­able from our mar­ket page.

This Saturday is the first Saturday of the month, so that means its mar­ket day! Come along to Brigthon Park to get your mouth-watering loc­ally pro­duced, sea­sonal and organic food, plus local and up-cycled arts and crafts.

We now have a range of stalls selling hot food and drinks, so why not bring friends or fam­ily and make a day of it? And in addi­tion to all our reg­u­lar traders, this Saturday we’ll have Arran Cheeses on site, provid­ing the per­fect accom­pani­ment to chut­neys from reg­u­lar stall­hold­ers Maureen Welsh or Oxenfoord Organics.

At the PEDAL stall we’ll be selling our Porty branded t-shirts (two designs, ‘I Love Porty’ and ‘Home Sweet Home’). Various col­ours and sizes are available.

Where: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello

When: 9.30am  —  1.30pm

Full list of stall­holders for October 1^st.

Come along at 10 am on Saturday 3 September to Brighton Park to cel­eb­rate the 1^st anniversary of the Portobello Organic Market and also to take part in a major human art installation!

On Saturday 3^rd September Portobello Organic Market will cel­eb­rate its first birthday.

At the same time in Brighton Park there will be a human art install­a­tion, ToxMe, cre­ated by vis­it­ing Italian artist Federico Calo’ in which every­one is invited to par­ti­cip­ate.  This event is part of Big Things on the Beach’s Public Art Fest, which takes place in Portobello from 27 August — 3 September — see www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk for full details.

Toxme, Portobello is a human install­a­tion cre­ated by Federico Calo’.  The idea is born from a very simple real­ity: every year, each one of us con­sumes almost six kilos of addit­ives con­tained in food, but tox­icity also includes noise, urban anger, envir­on­mental pol­lu­tion, intel­lec­tual con­di­tion­ing and the dis­tor­tion of our per­sonal right to exer­cise and express freely what we really think.  The aim of ToxMe is to bring this real­ity into pub­lic aware­ness through the medium of pub­lic art. Federico Calo’ works around Europe and dir­ectly involves local people as volun­teers to real­ise his videos. Big Things on The Beach and Federico Calo’, are recruit­ing local volun­teers who want to take part in this ground­break­ing pub­lic event.

The jux­ta­pos­i­tion of this event with the Organic Market will demon­strate, by provid­ing a sharp con­trast between ToxMe and the mar­ket, that we are not pass­ive con­sumers of tox­icity but that rather, through the Transition Movement and the local ini­ti­at­ives in Portobello designed to fight cli­mate change, we are facing the chal­lenge head-on to cre­ate a pos­it­ive and life-affirming way of deal­ing with these issues.

This is a unique oppor­tun­ity to get involved in a his­toric hap­pen­ing in Portobello and we hope you will join in.  To register your interest in this event, please e-mail enquiries@bigthingsonthebeach (put ‘ToxMe’ in the sub­ject line).

See you there!