The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2015 - Issue 38 | Page 21

Events

YAMS goes
from strength
to strength

Organising farming events in the middle of
winter can be fraught with anxiety – but a
little snow and some frost didn’t interfere
with YAMS 2015, which was busier
than ever, as Ian Wilkinson reports.
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As I met with Richard Tasker

On site catering always means

at 8am on the 4th of February YAMS
2015 was upon us and the doors

spot-on with supplies of all manner

were just 30 minutes from opening.

of sandwiches and beverages in

Richard was understandably a tad

supply and all at a reasonable price.

apprehensive as we were surrounded

Lunchtime saw the traditional

by cloudy skies and lightly dusting

farmers’ favourite - “The Hog Roast”

snow. Come 8.30am, however, the

- hot roast pork sandwiches with all

snow had stopped, skies were clearer
Richard Tasker

a lot at such events and this was

the trimmings. Richard even took

and by 10.30am the sunshine had

time out from his busy schedule to

arrived - as had a growing crowd of

help carve and serve for a time.
As ever there are always small

farmers.
It wasn’t long before all the

glitches – the power supply tripping

avenues and stands were filling up

out early on due to certain stands

for a busy show.

overloading with too many extra

It is hard to believe that YAMS was

heaters and appliances. This was

only inaugurated last year, stemming

but a small problem that was swiftly

from the idea of having an open day

sorted by Richard Ogden and his

for Yorkshire handlers