The first ever 3D Virtual Farmers’ Market (VFM) has officially opened its gates. The VFM is a fabulous new website that, using the latest games technology, allows you to ‘stroll around’ a 3D farmers’ market world, where you can ‘meet’ the people that produce your food & drink via video streams and buy delicious farmers’ market produce from more than 45 market stalls from the comfort of your own home, with your very own Virtual Farmer helping to guide you around!

The VFM has some amazing producers. Choose from Gower Brownies (some say the best they’ve ever tasted!), William Chase vodka, Paxton & Whitfield cheeses, Dave’s Chilli Oil, O’Shea Butcher, Burnt Sugar fudge, unusual teas from Choi Time & Teapigs and so many more. New producers and products will feature in the VFM the whole time, so it’s just like popping down to your local farmers’ market. One of the best things about the VFM is the Saturday Breakfast Box that has been created exclusively for the VFM by the legendary Peter Gott of Sillfield Farm in the Lake District - perfect to order in for an indulgent start to the weekend. The box includes freshly laid free-range eggs, Cumberland back bacon, Streaky bacon, Wild Bore pate, Cumberland sausage and sumptuous gammon.

If you love the idea of being able to visit a farmers’ market each week but just don’t have the time, or the means, then the VFM offers the next best thing, plus you can ‘visit’ it 24/7 come rain or shine; it’s so easy to use. Unlike with ordinary online shopping, the VFM allows you to virtually ‘walk’ around the farmers’ market and ‘visit’ the individual stalls, just like you would at a real life farmers’ market. The video streams that have been put together by the individual producers allow you to find out how your food & drink has been made, meet the face behind it all and listen to their brilliant stories (The Patchwork Pate, Rod and Bens Soups along with the Olives Et Al are a must see!).

The VFM introduces a totally new concept that is going to change the way you shop for food & drink online forever; for the first time it will bring the farmers market experience into your home and allow you to ‘meet’ the people that have produced your food. Once you have chosen what delicious farmers’ market food & drink you would like to buy, add it to your shopping basket for check-out, and it will be delivered to your home in temperature-controlled boxes.

The VFM is designed to be used as a ‘top-up’ for the regular household shop, so you can add exquisite products to your weekly shop that can’t be bought at any supermarket. It’s incredibly easy to use; you can look around the 3D farmer’s market world or navigate direct to each page on the website which also provides all information, depending on your preference.

Founder, Marcus Carter comments, ‘Seeing the face behind the food is more important today than it has ever been. To be able to connect remotely by using the internet, with the people who make what we eat, enables consumers to get a sense of trust before buying.’

 

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