TOTNES is hosting a Christmas market where everything on the stalls is FREE.

The first ever 'Really, Really Free Market' is part of a Totnes Winterfest timed to coincide with International Buy Nothing Day aimed at highlighting the need to preserve the Earth's finite resources.

And all the Transition Town Totnes organisers are asking is people don't get greedy and take too much.

The market will be going ahead at the Civic Hall in Totnes on Saturday.

A Transition Town Totnes spokesman said the market would be the first of its kind in the town: "Everyone is welcome to come and browse and take away goods on offer and locals are encouraged to donate any clothes, books, toys, plants, surplus garden produce or small household goods to the market for others to take."

He added: "The only guidelines are donations should be clean, usable/wearable and something you would be happy to pass on to a friend and that free market 'shoppers' don't take too much, leaving plenty for others.

"It's a system all based on giving and trust."

The Winterfest is planned as a platform for ideas and projects from across the Totnes community.

It will include the town's Nut Tree project as well as the co-housing group, the Food Hub project, the Totnes Pound, the Totnes Rickshaw Company, Transition Tales — with the Grove School Pied Piper procession— the ATMOS project, Do-It-Ourselves Skillshares, the Healthy Futures Garden project, Gardenshare, and more.

The event is open from 11am until 4pm and includes hands-on crafts and skills workshops from bike-maintenance, seed-saving, and rope-making to story-telling, knitting and making earth paints.

There will also be talks, clothes swapping, gardening chat, soup, stalls, a green library, coffee, tea and cakes.

You are invited to discover these thriving projects at work in the town.

Donations for the free market can be dropped off at the civic hall from 11am, and the market is 'open for trade' from noon until 4pm. Advance donations can be arranged with Asha on 07942 598 155.

To find out more about the day contact Lou on 01803 867 358 or email transitiontowntotnes@gmail.com