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Husband and wife team, Tanya and Vladimar founded T&V Vegetable Gardens in Hampshire in 2017 at the same time as having their first child.

So a lot of change for this industrious couple. They bring to market top-quality salad leaves, herbs, fruit and flowers, freshly picked and always seasonal. Their stall is an abundant riot of colour and unusual varieties – purple cauliflower, romanesco, golden beetroot, purple carrots and rainbow chard. Their produce is simply a world apart from supermarket vegetables.

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Birth of a new business

T&V Vegetable Gardens is a new name for Surbiton Farmers’ Market but shoppers will recognise the familiar couple behind the venture

October 2017 is a big month for Tanya Mirova and Vladimir Mirov. As they celebrate their third wedding anniversary and await the birth of their first child, the couple have somehow found time to launch their own business.

Vladimir and Tanya had manned the Secretts of Milford stall since our market first began in October 2009. When Secretts decided to pull out of farmers’ markets to concentrate on its farm and wholesale business, they stepped in.

The couple already farmed five acres of land near Alton in Hampshire and have now returned to the market under the T&V Vegetable Gardens banner. They’ll be selling a full range of fresh farm produce and will soon add new lines.

‘We’ll be growing specifically for markets rather than wholesale.’ explains Vladimir. ‘We’ll have the same quality of fruit and veg, as well as extra crops that we didn’t have before, such as herb pots and bunches plus extra flowers and salad products.

‘This is a great opportunity for us and for our customers. We have a lot of regular shoppers at all seven of the markets we attend in Surrey and Hampshire and this is our way of saying thank you to them. For us it’s not just work, it’s very special.’

Vladimir and Tanya also acknowledge the support of the Maple Road businesses in their association with Surbiton Farmers’ Market and in the new venture. It was market co-founder Richard Sealtiel of Gordon Bennett Bar + Kitchen who introduced Secretts to Surbiton, having seen the stall at Ripley’s community market. Richard’s wife Milena comes from the same region of Bulgaria, in the Danube valley.

And Eric Guignard of The French Table has also provided encouragement to the couple as they start out on their own.
‘We feel really great that Surbiton Farmers’ Market has accepted us back. After so many years at the market it feels like we’re coming home,’ says Tanya.

The couple already farmed five acres of land near Alton in Hampshire and have now returned to the market under the T&V Vegetable Gardens banner. They’ll be selling a full range of fresh farm produce and will soon add new lines.

‘We’ll be growing specifically for markets rather than wholesale.’ explains Vladimir. ‘We’ll have the same quality of fruit and veg, as well as extra crops that we didn’t have before, such as herb pots and bunches plus extra flowers and salad products.

‘This is a great opportunity for us and for our customers. We have a lot of regular shoppers at all seven of the markets we attend in Surrey and Hampshire and this is our way of saying thank you to them. For us it’s not just work, it’s very special.’

Vladimir and Tanya also acknowledge the support of the Maple Road businesses in their association with Surbiton Farmers’ Market and in the new venture. It was market co-founder Richard Sealtiel of Gordon Bennett Bar + Kitchen who introduced Secretts to Surbiton, having seen the stall at Ripley’s community market. Richard’s wife Milena comes from the same region of Bulgaria, in the Danube valley.

And Eric Guignard of The French Table has also provided encouragement to the couple as they start out on their own.
‘We feel really great that Surbiton Farmers’ Market has accepted us back. After so many years at the market it feels like we’re coming home,’ says Tanya.