A family market, online and on market days

Famica Market exists because the best food and craft in Britain is made by people too busy making it to fight an algorithm. We are a curated online market for family producers — preserve kitchens, wood-fired bakeries, one-wheel pottery studios, fleece-pool knitters — with market weekends where the whole network trades together in person.

The rule that shapes everything is the maker-first rule: the person named on the stall is the person who made what the stall sells. It is written into every seller agreement, checked at onboarding, and enforced honestly — resellers and outsourced ‘handmade’ are why we say no to more applicants than we accept. What we get in return is listings you can ask questions of, batches that end when the harvest ends, and prices that mean something because they carry no importer’s margin.

How the market works

Online, the market is a directory of sellers and their goods: every food seller lists their Food Hygiene Rating and the 14 UK allergens on every product; every craft listing states materials, batch size and care in plain language. Orders go through one basket, sellers post directly from their own kitchens and workshops, and collection through the seller network is available on most listings.

On market weekends — four or so a year, announced in the Market Journal — the stalls come together in person. It is the one occasion where you can taste this winter’s chutneys side by side, watch a board being engraved, and put faces to the names on the listings. Between weekends, the Journal carries the calendar: bake days, kiln openings, seasonal windows and the made-to-order deadlines that keep Christmas honest.

Who we are

Famica Market is run by a small team from a farm office that doubles as a dispatch hub. We are sellers first — the preserve kitchen that started all of this is still on the market under its own name — and we run the platform the way we would want it run for ourselves: small, curated, seasonal, and answerable. The seller open-call opens twice a year, in spring and autumn, and every application is read by a person.

Company details: Famica Market Ltd, registered in the United Kingdom. Company number and registered office are being finalised and will be published here on completion of incorporation.