 Okay, you are very welcome back to the Carygalley Business Park at the Artisan Markets here in Lettricenny. I'm looking forward to going in and seeing what's on offer. It's the idea, brainchild I suppose you could say, of Derek Walker. How are you Derek? I'm good. Greg, thanks. Now, how long has this been running for now? Well, it's been running nice since the 1st of August 2015 and it's really grown from month to month. We started off with 11 stalls and we're up now to about 30 to 40 stalls every Saturday, so it's really grown something serious for us. And why did you feel it needed to be established? Do you think there was a gap in the market? Well, I started off with a wheatgrass business myself and I was going to different markets all over the country but we just noticed that there was nowhere really in Donegal for us. For me to have a nice place to go to sell, I was seeing what people were doing in our counties and I thought that we were missing it in Lettricenny, especially Donegal. So, myself and my fiancé decided to set one up then and it kind of just grew from there. I think the word artisan might scare off some people, if you know what I mean. It sounds like it's kind of a loo for, I don't know, so what is the theory behind artisan food? Well, really, the definition of artisan is basically handcrafted without the use of mass production or big machinery, really anything that falls into that category. So everything here is hand made, locally produced, all the vegetables is grown locally, the meats, all local and you're talking to the actual person who produced it. So the meat there is Matthew, he's an actual farmer and rears his own beef, Bally Holey, John grows his own vegetables. All the hand crafters, all hand made, all the bakers, baked themselves, so you're talking to the person who made it themselves. Yeah, tell us about your business, what do you produce? Well, I produce organic wheatgrass and I produce it here, so we do fresh and frozen ready-made shots and we kind of wholesale, down and retailed. All our wheatgrass is grown on site. And what do people use wheatgrass for? Well, the benefits of wheatgrass are massive, really, for energy, any type of sonus in the body, a large amount of business is done with people involved with sports, for recovery, for energy levels, for getting them through the sporting season. I get you. And I mean, obviously, as you say, you distribute it widely, but when you're starting a new business, and you're going through the production aspect and all the other things that you have to worry about when you're establishing your business, where to sell it once you've produced, I mean, that's one of the problems you fix for a lot of people, I suppose. I know there's people that already have established markets, but you know what I mean? It just gives that way to market for people. Yeah, certainly. That's what I want to myself. I mean, somewhere to go to meet the public, just to get started up, to develop some customers, to meet the public. I wasn't used to it. I wasn't used to talking to people, selling products, and I gained a lot of experience firsthand for meeting customers, talking about my product, and hearing the feedback which really helped me get confidence to grow the business further. When you hear, see people coming back here in a good feedback, and the interest in the products, and it's the same for everyone in here, like those people started off with no business at all, and they grew something up. And it's really nice to see. And I suppose from the perspective of the market, the market is made of producers that make the market. I had an idea as producers and the public that made it happen then. So we just wanted to say thank you to everyone. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of a bit like you build it and they'll come though and you established it and they did. And the fact that it sort of becomes a one stop shop for autism style products. Everyone benefits really by coming together. Yeah, that's it. And it's a real community spirit. When you go in there, you know, you can sense the sort of camaraderie everyone has. It's a real community effort. And you see the same faces coming back every week with their shopping baskets buying the produce. And you know, it's nice with a crack in there. Do you have to pay a little bit more for sort of a premium quality product? So people need to expect that coming up or? Well, I mean, the prices can vary from from time to time. There's loads of great offers in there too. But I mean, the quality of the product, that's what you're getting. Like the amount of feedback you get from the taste of the flavors, the quality, the time the text to make and produce what what's there is, it's not mass produced. So it's that you're getting a really high quality product. Super. We're going to go in and have a walk around a little later on and see what's on offer. But give us an idea of what people are an idea what people could see if they call up and visit us today. Yeah, so you can get a wide range of from your weekly produce from meat, fish, vegetables, home baked French breads. Then you got handcrafts. You got barista style coffee, got hot gourmet food, produced on site by a man who actually rears the beef that he's selling. And burgers and you've got spacey curries. So you can sit down under the heater and have a bite heat. You've got your crafts, becks, loads of stuff, everything you expect to find on market juices as well. Now my my math got me into trouble in the past. So I just want to speak honestly, right? Yeah, when I was first coming up here, I thought it was a little bit out of the way. Yeah, right. And then now my mind has completely changed because firstly, I didn't realize the scale of it. The amount of space that would be required to provide this service that you guys do. And then the convenience of the parking. Yeah. So it's a little bit out of town. But the benefits of it are actually huge. You know, once you actually come out here and see the scale of it. And as I say, you don't have to worry about someone coming and sticking a ticket on your car. That's exact. That was our vision from the start. We kind of when we were scouting around for places to have the market, we looked around very close to town. But we were also very conscious of the race that we have to charge people and the vision that we had for it was people to come relax for the day, park the car, not have to worry about rolling on and on and out. They can sit down, have a coffee, buy a tea. It is about it. But we feel that the benefits outweigh the cons. No, I would agree with 100%. And it's well signposted to you. Yeah. If you're at the bottom of the letter, Kenny Tan, you go over the bridge at Old Tan and it's a two turns but there are two, three turns. But it's all signposted. And as I say, there's tons of parking here. So get up here if you haven't been up here before. Because there's a broad content here. And it's not necessarily that you'll do all of your shopping here. You may wish to. But you can call here, get some stuff. And then if you want to go to your regular retailers, you can as well. They're not mutually exclusive either. One can complement the other. Yeah, we try and go for a sort of, we're trying to make it a bit of an event to people to come and sit down. And it was a kids activity area. We've got just as an experience, a place to come, talk. I think the benefit that we can give people is that you're meeting the person that met it, that grew it, that reared it, that caught it. You know, you're meeting these people and you can ask them questions and you can, you know, get it. It's real farmed to fork field that we're looking to achieve here. And then we're trying to sort of give a place to go. An alternative for people to go to on a Saturday. Now you don't rare wheatgrass, do you? I grow it. I was going to say that would be a very interesting relationship with your products. If you started naming it and what have you. But I know what you're saying because those, the meat producers obviously that they, it's literally from the, the, its inception to the, to here. They know every single step along the way. Fantastic. So tell us when the market runs just for those who may have missed that at the start. Yeah, so the market runs every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at unit one and two, Cary Golly Business Park. It's just up this morning, up beyond CEM and Brodery, everyone can go to that area. It's on every Saturday. Yeah, so. What time did doors open, did he say, sir? At 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock. Start the day. Listen, fantastic. It's brilliant. And I think people that may not have been aware of it before but may call it will be and for a really pleasant surprise, particularly with the space and the parking and the convenience of that. Yeah, definitely. All right, Derek will be going inside and having a look more closely at it. But for now, Derek Walker, thanks very much for joining us on the show. Can I just say again, Greg, I just want to thank everyone, all the producers and all the public that's been coming right to us from the start. Really meaning that from the bottom of my heart, because it wasn't for the people that's coming out and making the market happen and we wouldn't have a market, so I can take the credit for it. It's everyone in there and people who come up that make the market happen. And isn't it kind of nice to very finely that, you know, a lot of the produce is organic and this whole concept is organic, isn't really to some extent, and that it's grown from an idea. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, thank you. All right, Derek Walker, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Greg.