Launch: 11am–6pm Saturday 12 May
On Saturday 12 May, venues across Stokes Croft will host markets featuring food, arts and crafts and vintage. The markets will then be on every second Saturday of the month. To start with, the markets will be based at: The Full Moon (food, arts and crafts), Hamilton House (arts and crafts) and Boston Tea Party (vintage). Look out for buskers and entertainment in venues!
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Launch: 11am–6pm Saturday 12 May
On Saturday 12 May, venues across Stokes Croft will host markets featuring food, arts and crafts and vintage. The markets will then be on every second Saturday of the month. To start with, the markets will be based at: The Full Moon (food, arts and crafts), Hamilton House (arts and crafts) and Boston Tea Party (vintage). Look out for buskers and entertainment in venues!
If you are interested in having a stall and being part of a new movement supporting independent Read more [...] 
Mullion Cove and Bristol City Council have joined forces again to create a three day family-friendly event at Ashton Court Estate this Jubilee weekend.
After the success of the Christmas food and craft fayre, the Ashton Court Summer Fayre will have a similar format with a wide selection of quality local food and drink producers alongside local artists and crafts people.
This free event will be situated in the stables courtyard and hayloft of the mansion house at Ashton Court Estate. The summer 
Ashton Court Producers Market, a joint venture by Sophie Bowden of Mullion Cove and Bristol City council are about to celebrate their first year anniversary in May.
This popular monthly market has grown from a small select group of stalls to a busy and vibrant market with up to 25 food, drink and craft producers selling high quality and locally made products. The market has also recently changed its name from a ‘farmers’ to a ‘producers’ market to reflect the wide variety of products available 
As part of the Market at the Moon on Saturday 21st Bristol People’s Supermarket will be holding the first of our spring outings for the market stall.
Humphrey at the last market stall
Where: The Full Moon Courtyard
When: Between 10am and 5pm on Saturday 21st April
We will be selling a selection of seasonal classics, tasty cakes and snacks, and some lovely jams and preserves. All produced locally or within the UK, and all at prices accessible to everyone.
Please come down and show your support, 
Mary Portas and the Local Government Minister, Grant Shapps, have launched a competition to choose 12 towns to become “Portas Pilots”, with the winners benefiting from a share of £1million to help turn around their “unloved and unused” high streets.
The cash incentive is offered to those towns that come up with the best High Street blueprints in a move that fulfils the first and last recommendations of Mary Portas’ High Streets Review, commissioned by the Prime Minister and published 
From the Bristol City Council website:
Introduction
The Commission identified local high streets as a priority issue this year. We wanted to examine issues relating to local retailing, planning policy and access to food and how these are affecting high streets in the city.
The Council is already leading on the development of the Food Policy Council and there is a great deal of public interest in local versus multiple chain stores in certain areas and the planning issues that have arisen from 
From the Communities and Local Government website:
Summary
As part of the growth agenda, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister commissioned retail expert Mary Portas to conduct an independent review of the high street's future. The Portas Review set out what Mary Portas thought had led to the decline of the high street and made 28 recommendations about what could be done to breathe life back into them.
The Government's response to the Portas Review lays down a challenge for local 
Discover Bristol’s remarkable chocolate flavoured past.
Uncover Bristol’s chocolate heritage this Easter with historical walks, competitions and some free family fun.
For 300 years, Bristol’s chocolate makers changed the world: inventing the world’s first ever chocolate bar, chocolate confectionary and Easter eggs.
Now you can discover this past with award-winning Harvest Heritage Arts and Media by booking an Easter walking tour revealing the eggs-trodinary stories hidden right in 
In a departure from the Christmas Steps Arts Quarter’s usual celebration of all things Christmas (due to our fantastically festive name), The Steps will be hosting an Easter Artisan Market on Easter Saturday, the 7th April, from 11am – 4pm.
To well and truly banish all thoughts of Christmas in the lovely spring season, there will be a fun Easter egg hunt for all visitors to the market to get involved in. Easter eggs will be hidden on the Artisan’s stalls waiting to be discovered and then 
Saturday 31st March and Sunday 1st April 2012
Brunel’s Old Station, Temple Meads, Bristol
Entry: Adults – £2.50 Concessions – £1.50 Children – Free
http://www.lovefoodfestival.com/spring.html
Spring is in the air!
‘Love Food Festival’ have released further news of their ‘Spring Festival’, taking place at the end of the month. The two day event is the jewel in their crown, gathering a host of artisans and foragers, cookery teachers, food producers, classic chefs, food writers