Bridport & Lyme Regis
‘MAKE AND MUNCH’ SESSIONS FOR PARENTS AND SMALL CHILDREN
LAUNCH IN LYME REGIS TO MARK DORSET FOOD WEEK
To mark Dorset Food Week later this month, Mums and Dads of young children who would like to cook healthier and delicious meals for the family but are unsure how to start are invited to a series of free cooking and tasting mornings in Lyme Regis. The ‘Make and Munch’ sessions, run by local charity Health and Local Food for Families (HALFF), based in Axminster, launch with a one-off pizza making and eating morning at InSPARation Youth Cafe, Church Street, Lyme Regis, Tuesday 26th October, 10.30 - 12am. Six further free 'Make and Munch' session begin the following Wednesday, 3rd November, in the Baptist Church Hall, Silver Street (opposite the cinema), 10.15am-12.45pm. Led by experienced cooks and nutritionists, the cookery and tasting mornings are designed to be both informal and fun for parents and children alike, and offer a chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones. Everyone gets together to prepare and cook a range of simple and tasty recipes, including main meals, desserts and snacks, and then sit down together at the end to eat what they have made. There will be plenty of toys and other activities provided to keep the children happy and parents will also be able to take away easy-to-follow recipes ideas to try at home. HALFF has secured funding to help parents of babies and toddlers up to three years old in East Devon, West Dorset and South Somerset, particularly those who have little confidence or experience of cooking, to prepare simple healthy, family-friendly food using affordable local produce. Tiggy Parry, Director of HALFF, says: “Many of the increasing problems we have with children’s health such as obesity are due to parents relying on processed foods full of sugars and salt because they believe healthy, seasonal food is difficult, boring or expensive. “The good news is that doesn’t’t have to be the case. You don’t have to give up all your favourite dishes, become a master chef or be well off to provide the family with a tasty balanced diet.”
For more information on HALFF and the Honiton ‘Make and Munch’ sessions call 01297 631782,
Email megan@halff.org.uk
Denhay Farms Ltd.
We are holding a Dorset Breakfast on Sunday 24th October in Broadoak Village Hall DT6 5NN 9.00 – 11.30 Tickets £7.50 in aid of Village Hall Funds, where the majority of the produce will be Dorset sourced.
my details: Amanda Streatfeild 01308 422770
or Amanda@denhay.co.uk
Denhay Farms - BROADOAK VILLAGE HALL BREAKFAST
CELEBRATE DORSET FOOD WEEK
WITH A HEARTY BREAKFAST
EVERYTHING PRODUCED LOCALLY
(SO NO BAKED BEANS!)
9 a.m to 11 a.m.
Sunday 24th October 2010
Ticket: £7.50
Children: £3.00
(under 12)
Bothen Hill Produce
Bothen Hill Produce grows a wide range of fresh organic vegetables all year round which are marketed via a box scheme locally within the Bridport area and will be attending the Dorset Farmers’ Markets throughout Dorset Food Week. For more details please call or visit our website.
7 Green Lane, Bothenhampton, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4ED
t. 01308 424 271 e. bothenhill@hotmail.co.uk
www.bothenhillproduce.co.uk
Hare & Hounds
Free Sampling
Local country pub serving all locally sourced food. With a great atmosphere, great beer and, for Dorset Food Week, a delicious selection of Balson’s and Simon Berry’s sausages. There will also be traditional homemade pies with homemade short crust pastry for you to try. The selection of all these mouth watering sausages and pies will only be available for the Dorset Food Week. 23rd - 31st October
Waytown, near Bridport, Dorset DT6 5LQ
t.01308 488 203 e.Marian_b_smith@hotmail.co.uk
Modbury Farm Shop
A farm shop on an organic dairy farm selling our own Jersey cream, milk, pork and local goats’ meat as well as other local produce. Lots of animals to be seen – calves, piglets, chickens, etc.
Open day Thursday 28th Oct, 10 – 4pm.
Come and try some of our free tastings and why not come and Hug a Cow!
No admission charge.
Modbury Farm, Burton Bradstock, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4NE
t.T: 01308 897 193 www.modburyfarm.co.uk
e. E: info@modburyfarm.co.uk - tim.garry@modburyfarm.co.uk
Tastings
Crabbs Bluntshay Farm
Pasture, small suckler cow herd, beef, geese, orchards, large cottage garden. Farmers’ Market produce - cider, honey, preserves plus fruit, vegetables and flowers in season.
Farm Walk on Thurs 28th Oct, 10.00am (prompt) - 1.00pm, Farm Walk which encompasses archaeological, historical and agricultural features. See our cider cellar with equipment dating back over 100 years and one of our bee sites. Refreshments available. Tour Price £2 per adult, 50p per child.
Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport, Dorset DT6 6RN
t.01297 489 064 e.sylviabluntshay@btopenworld.com
Highlands End Holiday Park
Bar and Restaurant
Highlands End Holiday Park – Bar and Restaurant
An ideal place to meet up with friends and family and enjoy a choice of beers and good food. The bar has a wide selection of beers and lagers including real ale from Palmers the local brewery. Our ‘specials board’ provides a variety of regularly changed delicious meals, many of which are locally sourced.
We have a patio area for those peaceful evenings to enjoy the spectacular views across Bridport and the coastline and watch your children in the play area. The Bar and Restaurant is open every evening and Sunday lunchtime from mid-March - early November and we are more than happy to discuss the availability of the bar for parties and events.
To celebrate Dorset Food Week, on Saturday 23rd October Highlands End is holding our annual Hog Roast followed by a disco. Come and join in the fun!
Highlands End Holiday Park, Eype, Bridport, Dorset DT6 6AR
t. 01308 422139 e. enquiries@wdlh.co.uk or bar@wdlh.co.uk
www.highlandsend.co.uk
Elwell Fruit Farm
Tasting/Sampling
Family owned and operated farm 3 miles north of Bridport established 50+ years ago. Growers of over 30 varieties of apples and pears. Bottled apple and pear juice also for sale. Please call for a full list of stockists.
Apple Tasting Weekend at Groves Garden Centre, West Bay Road, Bridport on Sat 23 and Sun 24 October.
Over 30 varieties of locally grown apples and pears will be available to sample and buy along with 4 varieties of bottled juices.
Free advice on choosing, planting and growing of fruit trees from the Fruit Farm staff. Fruit trees available to buy/order from the Garden Centre.
Waytown, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5LF
t.01308 488 283 e. caroline@waytown.freeserve.co.uk
Tastings
Ashley Chase Estate
Makers and Purveyors of Fine Cheese, including cheddar and speciality cheeses. Ford Farm serves consumers both at home and abroad with a broad selection of quality cheeses. Please call or visit our website for a full list of stockists.
While you are enjoying Dorset Food Week look out for our tasting sessions spread across Dorset in local establishments, including The Fridge in Dorchester, for a small taste of our delicious cheeses.
Tastings
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve lies in the valley of the River Hooke near Maiden Newton and is nationally renowned for its wildlife interest. You may recognise the name from this years BBC Spring Watch; Simon King filmed from Kingcombe Meadows and recognised its unique appeal, quote “Kingcombe feels unchanged, full of history and natural legacy, and all alongside man”
The Reserve boasts 180 hectares of grassland and woodlands, forming a patchwork of fields broken up by thick hedges, streams, ponds and ancient green lanes. With over 400 different kinds of flowers, ferns and grasses the meadows need careful management; to achieve this we follow conservation grazing principles utilising native breeds of cattle and sheep. Our beef and lamb are integral to our farming system and exclusively graze Kingcombe Meadows to preserve the abundance of wildflowers and grasses.
As a special promotion we will be selling Kingcombe Meadows Lamb at Framptons of Bridport throughout Dorset Food Week, as part of this Dorset Wildlife Trust will be leading a guided walk around Kingcombe Meadows on Sunday the 24th October at 3pm. The walk will give a unique insight into the management of Kingcombe Meadows and how your Sunday Roast can help Dorset’s Wildlife!
To book for the farm walk and optional cream tea or find out more about our Beef and Lamb promotion please phone Emily Newton on 01300 321329.
t.01300 321 329
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
Thai Cooking 4 you
Thai cooking courses
4 dishes to learn, hands on, nothing to bring all ingredients and soft drinks will be provided. You will learn how to prepare using as much as possible local ingredients.
On Monday 25th October from 12.00 - 3.30pm. On Saturday 30th October from 12.00 -3.30pm. Each course is £39 per person.
13 Church St. Martock, Somerset TA12 6JL
t. 01460 76391 Pheeraya Hill
e. nid@thaicooking4you.co.uk
www.thaicooking4you.co.uk
Wyld Meadow Lamb
Wyld Meadow Farm is set in beautiful West Dorset, part of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex that inspired the great writer and poet. Our family has farmed sheep here using traditional methods for generations. We take great pride and care in our animals and their welfare is of the utmost importance. All our sheep and beef are reared naturally, grazing on prime Dorset meadowland and they live on a chemical free diet.
Most of our sheep are Poll Dorset which can breed at anytime of the year. This means that our own fresh Dorset lamb is available throughout the year. Our beef herd is Aberdeen Angus crossed onto a Devon.
Here at Wyld Meadow we produce a high quality, full flavoured lamb and beef which is extremely tender.
Our lamb is hung for 1 week and our beef a minimum of three weeks to enhance its quality and flavour, then professionally prepared into selected joints and cuts by a master butcher. It is then vacuum packed and labelled.
Clive & Jo Sage
Montkton Wyld, Bridport, Dorset DT6 6DD
t. 01297 678318
The Green Yard Café
Award-winning family run café providing home cooked local produce and specialising in ethically produced food.
Cream teas with homemade scones and award-winning local jam, Denhay cheddar and Blue Vinny ploughmans with local chutney available all day. Please do come in and try our Special Dorset Menu throughout the Dorset Food Week - Dorset Blue Vinny Ploughmans/Dorset Cream Teas/Hot Roast Free Range Pork served on a Torpedo roll with homemade stuffing and apple sauce.
4-6 Barrack Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3LY
t. 01308 459 466
Washingpool Farm Shop
Well-stocked family run farm shop selling our own vegetables and meat as well as full greengrocery and food from over 70 local producers. Open 7 days a week. Fully licensed restaurant on site.
North Allington, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5HP
t. 01308 459 549 Victoria or Simon
e.info@washingpool.co.uk
www.washingpool.co.uk
Washingpool Farm Restaurant
Dorset Food Week Menu
Fully licensed restaurant with wonderful rural views specialising in ingredients grown and raised on the farm or sourced locally. Open for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea; extensive menu and good quality coffee. Special Dorset Food Week menu to run throughout the week. Open 7 days a week including Sunday lunch.
North Allington, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5HP
t. 01308 459 549 e.info@washingpool.co.uk
www.washingpool.co.uk
Hive Beach Cafe
Special Dorset Menu
The award winning, family run Hive Beach Café has been established in Burton Bradstock for nearly 20 years, always serving locally sourced products across its range. Over the past 3-4 years our focus has moved to providing a wider selection of fresh sea food alongside our delicious cakes and café-style food. This emphasis has developed into using environmentally friendly fishing methods, from sustainable sources. We offer a unique experience due to our location on Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock; our range of high quality produce; and our focus on regional and locally sourced products right across the range. You can come and visit the Hive for a cup of tea or coffee, in your t-shirt and shorts, or you can come for a full-blown dinner in your suit, eat some amazing sea food and drink champagne, relaxing for a while by the sea. Everyone is welcome.
Dorset Food Week: Come and sample our special Dorset menu, offering a selection of locally-sourced sea food. We also offer a range of local Dorset produce including cakes, biscuits, home-made cream teas and wines. Come along and join in the fun.
Burton Bradstock, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4RF
t.01308 897 070
www.hivebeachcafe.co.uk
R J Balson & Son Butchers
Tasting/Sampling
We produce 18 types of sausages made locally at West Allington since 1890. Family business with quality produce through and through. Throughout the
Dorset Food Week: there will be free
sausage tastings
9 West Allington Bridport, Dorset DT6 5BJ
t. 01308 422 638
Tastings
Manor Court Farm Foods
We produce the finest quality beef, reared on our farm in Shipton Gorge.
It is hung for a minimum of three weeks and expertly butchered into a wide range of cuts
including roasting joints, steaks and prime mince. We also sell locally-reared pork and a selection of hand-made products, including sausages, meatballs and our delicious prime beef burgers. Pick up a tasty treat at our stall in Bridport Market on the 23rd and 30th October.
151 St Andrews Road, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3BP
t.01308 424 025 e. manorcourtfarmfoods@hotmail.co.uk
www.manorcourtfarmfoods.com
TOWN MILL CHEESEMONGER
Lyme’s award-winning specialist cheese shop, the Town Mill Cheesemonger (Best New Cheese Retailer, British Cheese Awards 2009) hosts 4 events during Food Week. Opened by Justin Tunstall in June 2009, the Cheesemonger rapidly gained national recognition for offering an unsurpassed range of fine West Country Cheese and accompaniments, now including a select range of wines as well as biscuits, preserves, olives and Barford Farmhouse ice cream. And, of course, our bright yellow rubber Swiss cheese door stops!
Wednesday 27 Oct 2-4 pm Ford Farm cheese tasting - meet the cheesemakers and sample Cave Aged Cheddar, Dorset Red and other specialities.
Thursday 28 Oct 2-4 pm Windswept Cow cheese tasting - sample the unique cheeses from this Purbeck based artisan cheesemaker: St Aldhelm’s Blue and Original.
Friday 29 October 3pm Book signing by Juliet Harbutt, author of the World Cheese Book, winner of the Best Food Book at the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2010
Friday 29 October 7.30pm The Cheese Challenge in association with the British Cheese Awards (Venue tba - ask at shop) - an entertaining quiz with Juliet and Justin: test your cheese knowledge and sample some great cheeses and wines.
Town Mill Cheesemonger
Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU
01297 44 26 26
Forest Products
Since 1986 Forest Products have produced the finest quality handmade jams, marmalades, specialty preserves, chutneys, mustards and sauces. Forest Products make award winning jams, chutneys, sauces and confectionery. Forest Products have always been committed to making Preserves and Condiments, using only natural ingredients and free from artificial flavours and preservatives.
We will be hosting tastings at The Fridge
delicatessen in Dorchester on Monday 25th October and Washingpool Farm Shop on Thursday 28th October.
www.forestproducts.co.uk
Bridport Farmers’ Market
This Saxon market town is situated on the picturesque coast road to Exeter. The traditional manufacture of ropes, twine and netting is still carried on here – in addition to supplying most of the cordage for the Fleet in earlier times, the town also provided the hangmans’ ropes which gave rise to the phrase ‘a Bridport dagger’. The wide main streets afford attractive views of the surrounding hills, the magnifi cent coastline and agricul tural land around. The highly successful regular Farmers’ Market is held in the Arts Centre on the second Saturday each month and in recent years has been voted ‘ Best Farmers’ Market in Dorset’. The market regularly attracts 30 producers selling their wares including Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall from his nearby River Cottage HQ. “the 2nd Saturday of each month,
Time:- 9.00am – 1.00pm, Venue:- The Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport
Contact name:- Jo Yetman,
tel: 01258 454510 e-mail:
joyeatman@hotmail.com