pigs, poultry and vegetables in the space of just farm such as hedge laying and the use of reed beds. Special Events 16 acres. The farm is wholly organic. The pigs are Be introduced to the newest family venture “Sorori used to clean up, dig up and fertilise as they go in Design”. Maria is an experienced florist and now runs Unless mentioned, all events are FREE – just turn up. the vegetable plots, and there are 3 polytunnels to her business from Lowgoods Organic Farm using Bookings are only necessary where stated for individual extend the cropping season. Friendly sheep are flowers from a variety of sources. Meet Jemima and events. Bookings are taken Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm a feature of the farm – expect to be approached! Josie the slug patrol Call Ducks - Henny Penny the by ringing 01454 863592 Guided tours at 2.30pm and 3.30pm. Pekin Bantams and Spot & Dot the resident sheep Maximum 30 per tour. Please book on and their offspring! Refreshments available. South Council is responsible for organising the Festival 01454 863592 for the tour only. Brewery Tour but does not take responsibility for actual visits or sampling of produce. Bakery Tour – booking required Saturday 4 October 10am-4pm Remember, in some cases you will be visiting working farms and walking Monday 22 September 1.30pm-3pm Cotswold Spring Brewery, Dodington Ash, on rough and muddy ground. Please take care on all visits and wear Hobbs House Bakery, Unit 6, Chipping Edge Tel: 01454 323088 appropriate footwear and clothing. All information is correct at the time of Estate, Hatters Lane, Chipping Sodbury www.cotswoldbrewery.com printing but it’s worth checking details before setting out. Tel: 01454 321629 A free taste or £1 if you want a full pint! Brewer Nik www.hobbshousebakery.co.uk Milo will be happy to show you where Codrington Visit this award winning local bakery, established in Codger and Olde English Rose are made at this Thornbury Food Market the bakery’s new premises just off the A46. Explore 1986 for a tour including light refreshments. A family brewery. Saturday 13 September 10am-2pm and shop at their newly opened bakery shop which run business where three generations work alongside Castle Street, Thornbury, BS35 2BD stocks the full Marshfield Bakery range as well as each other. (Disabled access not good) Orchard Harvest Day Tel: 01454 858007 other local products. Maximum 15 people – book Maximum 15 people – to book your place call Sunday 5 October 10.30am-3.30pm Come along and join in the fun of a market town your place by calling 01454 863592 01454 863592 Winterbourne Medieval Barn, Church Lane, food market – sample local produce, enjoy locally- Winterbourne made ice-cream, burgers, Mediterranean cuisine, Local Choice Milk – dairy farm / Fresh Pasta - booking required Celebrate the richness and variety of English fruit chocolate and more. Castle Street will be closed to conservation tour – booking required Thursday 25 September 10.30am-12noon at this 14th century historic barn, and taste food traffic for the duration of the market. Tea and coffee Wednesday 17 September 6pm-8pm The Pasta Company, Station Road created from local produce. Come and press your on sale. New House Farm, Duck Street, Tytherington, Workshops, Station Road, Kingswood, Bristol own fruit. Lots of other events and stalls on the day GL12 8QB BS15 4PJ Tel: 01454 418716 with activities for children – fun for all ages! BBQ also Brewery Tour Meet dairy farmer Richard Cornock who, together www.thebristolpastacompany.com available. Saturday 13 September 10am-4pm with his brother Tom, keep a herd of cows on a farm Make your own pasta at this family run company who Brewery Shop, Station Road, Wickwar near Thornbury. They sell their milk under the Tesco produce small batches of hand-made pasta, using Craft Butcher - meat cutting Tel: 0870 777 5671 ‘Local Choice’ scheme which allows shoppers locally sourced ingredients wherever possible. Take demonstration – booking required www.wickwarbrewing.co.uk to buy milk produced in the area where they live. home the pasta you’ve made! There’s an opportunity Tuesday 7 October at 6pm Award winning brewery producing real ales including Understand more about the scheme and also see to buy other pasta products too. Maximum 8 Perry & Son, craft butchers, 4 Greenhill Parade, BOB, Cotswold Way and Mr Perrett’s Traditional the various conservation projects and learn about the people. Please book to visit this pasta company , BS35 3LU Tel: 01454 413486 Stout – all fermented in traditional vessels - plus the biodiversity benefits. Disabled access poor. by calling 01454 863592 Come and meet a craft butcher Mike Perry and watch recently acclaimed ‘Supreme Champion Winter Beer Tel: 01454 863592 to book a place. Maximum 10 him cut a lamb or pork locally produced carcass Of Britain 2008’. Meet at the Brewery Shop with tours people. Please bring wellies. Community Farm Open Day and learn about the various cuts of meat and how of the brewery on the half hour starting at 10.30am. Saturday 27 September 10am-4pm best to use them. You can also buy some of his Last tour at 3.30pm. Cookery Demonstration – using local food Grimsbury Farm, Grimsbury Road, Kingswood award winning sausages, pork pies, steak pies and from Thornbury Farmers Market Tel: 01454 865877 beefburgers. Maximum 10 people. Dairy Farm Open Day - Guided Tours Thursday 18 September 10.30am-11.30am Come and see a cider and perry press in action Tel: 01454 863592 to book a place. Sunday 14 September 11am-3pm Ronnie’s Restaurant, St Mary’s Centre, pressing locally grown apples and pears. Watch Estate Dairy Farm, Tortworth Estate, St Mary Street, Thornbury BS35 2AB BTCV demonstrating a pole lathe and see how native Bakery Tour – booking required Box Walk, Tortworth, Wotton-under-Edge Tel: 01454 411137 trees are grown at the Tree Life Centre for planting Wednesday 8 October 11.30am-12.30pm Tel: 01454 260268 www.ronnies-restaurant.co.uk around the county. See how a fleece from our own Marshfield Bakery, Tolldown Barn, Tolldown, Guided tours every half hour (approx). Trailer rides to Come and watch a demonstration by Chef Ron sheep is turned into yarn. Tour the farm and see SN14 8JH Tel: 01225 891709 the dairy unit to see milking parlour, cows and calves. Faulkner from Ronnie’s Restaurant (comprising a goats, chickens, ducks, pigs, donkeys, sheep and www.marshfieldbakery.co.uk Learn about how your ‘pinta’ is produced. coffee lounge and restaurant) who use local food cattle. Experience a taste of South Gloucestershire A family run bakery producing award winning Parking at The Estate Shop, Tortworth. where possible ensuring the menu is kept seasonal. food with locally made cakes, a barbecue and other handmade cakes and snack bars. Take a tour of Directions: Signed to Damery off B4509, one mile The demonstration will use food sourced from the refreshments, whilst relaxing in the farm grounds. the bakery’s new premises just off the A46. Explore from M5 Junction 14. Please bring suitable clothing / Thornbury Farmers Market which is held in St Mary’s Find out about how the farm is going to develop in and shop at their newly opened bakery shop which footwear (wellies!) Centre on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. the future and how you can get involved in helping stocks the full Marshfield Bakery range as well as with this important community asset. other local products. Maximum 15 people – book Food Heritage Organic Ice Cream – booking required All this and much more at Kingswood’s only your place by calling 01454 863592 Sunday 14 September 12noon-4.30pm Saturday 20 September 2.30pm-4.30pm community farm. Heritage Centre, Church Road, Yate Marshfield Farm Ice Cream, Marshfield Farm, Cider Making Tour – booking required BS37 5BG Tel: 01454 862200 Marshfield Nr Bath SN14 8LE Farm Visit Saturday 11 October 11am and 2pm www.yateheritage.co.uk Tel: 01225 891221 Saturday 27 September 10am-6pm Riddle’s Cider, Oak Farm, Oldbury Lane, Promotion and demonstrations of traditional bread www.marshfield-icecream.co.uk Manor Farm, , Thornbury Tel: 07877 413298 making, cheese making and cider brewing are Visit this successful local farmer and ice cream Tel: 0117 932 4161 Take a tour of the cider orchard and learn to identify all put into a historical context for this Heritage maker, have a look around the ice cream factory and The Hawking family has farmed at Manor Farm since varieties of apples such as Yarlington Mills and Open Weekend event, including a demonstration listen to how it all came about. There will be a chance the 1930’s. The farm has seen many changes and Sheep’s Nose, see the cider making process using by Codrington Brewery. Displays and history talks to look around part of the farm too. Activities for now combines conservation and farming, selling a 100 year old cider press. Tours last approx. 1½ included. Tea and cakes on sale at neighbouring children provided as well as light refreshments. Free produce in its farm shop which is open daily from hours. Maximum 30 people on each tour. St Mary’s Church from 2-4pm. Disabled access is sampling and the opportunity to purchase ice cream 10am-6pm. See Gloucester Old Spot pigs and meet To book please call 01454 863592 available. on the day. Disability access poor due to many farmer David Hawking, or take a guided walk to find uneven surfaces. Maximum 25 people out about the history of the farm. Small Orchard Open Day Craft Butcher – meat cutting Tel: 01454 863592 to book a place. Sunday 12 October 12noon – 5pm demonstration – booking required Cherry Gardens Primary School – Local Our Small Farm, Huntingford House, Swinhay Monday 15 September at 3pm Free-range Pigs and Chicken Farm Open Food Day Lane, Huntingford, Wotton-under-Edge Perry & Son, craft butchers, 4 Greenhill Parade, Day Saturday 27 September 12noon-3pm GL12 8EX Tel: 01453 845212 Alveston, BS35 3LU Tel: 01454 413486 Saturday 20 September 9am-5pm Cherry Gardens Primary School, Cherry Garden Enjoy your own picnic in this traditional Come and meet a craft butcher Mike Perry and watch Cherry Lodge Farm, Bristol Road, Lane, Bitton, Bristol, BS30 6JH Gloucestershire orchard and understand the history him cut a lamb or pork locally produced carcass BS37 9TG Tel: 01454 228832 Tel: 01454 867260 and composition of the orchard and something too and learn about the various cuts of meat and how Visit outdoor reared rare breed Gloucester Old Spot Come along and join in a BBQ and refreshments, of the management plan. There’s an opportunity best to use them. You can also buy some of his pigs, learn how they are kept and take pleasure in much of which will have been produced using locally to purchase some home-made juice, chutneys award winning sausages, pork pies, steak pies and watching the piglets. Enjoy a pig roast and/or cream sourced ingredients. See the children’s garden and and jams. Teas, coffees, toasted teacakes, cream beefburgers. Maximum 10 people. tea and have fun on the bouncy castle. There will be take part in games. Cherry Garden Primary School is teas and apple juice will also be available. Disabled Tel: 01454 863592 to book a place. a chance to buy from the farm’s range of produce, working with the Soil Association to obtain the “Food access is not easy due to the sloping, uneven as well as see their flock of free-range hens and buy For Life” Bronze, Silver and Gold Marks. This school land needed to cross in order to enter the orchard. Creating a three bird roast their eggs. has done much to promote local food and hopes to Children are welcome. – booking required www.cherrylodgefarm.co.uk have lots of stalls showcasing local food producers Admission is free, but a donation to Operation Agri Tuesday 16 September 6pm-7pm on the day. (a charity supporting agriculture in countries such as Tortworth Estate Shop, Box Walk, Tortworth, Brewery Tour – booking required India) would be welcome. Wotton-under-Edge GL12 8HF Saturday 20 September 10am-2pm Biodynamic Garden Visit Tel: 01454 261633 Bath Ales, Units 3-7 Caxton Business Park, Sunday 28 September 2pm-5.30pm Free-range egg Farm Tour Enjoy a demonstration of how to create a three bird Tower Road North, Camphill Communities, Sheiling School, Sunday 12 October 3pm-4.30pm roast using turkey, duck and pheasant at this farm Tel: 0117 947 4797 Park Road, Thornbury Tel: 01454 412194 Naite Free-range Eggs, Naite Farm, Oldbury- shop which opened in 2003. The shop has over Visit this independent micro-brewery to see where Visit the beautiful, biodynamic certified gardens set on-Severn BS35 1RU Tel: 01454 412448 50 suppliers, many of them local. Refreshments real ales such as Gem and the organic brew, Wild in historic parkland. A farm with rare breed animals, Meet farmer Andrew Gazard and see for yourself how provided. Maximum 35 people. Hare, are made. Tour includes free tasters. a working horse and gardens producing fruit and a large free range poultry unit is run and learn about Tel: 01454 863592 to book a place. Please book for the brewery tour by calling vegetables for use by the school. the ‘woodland eggs’ scheme for selling free range 01454 863592 eggs. Bakery Tour - booking required Organic Farm Tour – flowers and beef Wednesday 17 September 11.30am Farm Tour and Visit – booking required for tours Sunday 28 September 11am-1.30pm -12.30pm only, for the farm visit, just turn up Grey’s Organics, Lowgoods Organic Farm, Marshfield Bakery, Tolldown Barn, Tolldown, Sunday 21 September 2pm-5pm Road, Oldbury-on-Severn. Dyrham SN14 8HZ Tel: 01225 891709 Severn View Farm, Inglestone Common, Tel: 01454 413470 or 01454 412022 www.marshfieldbakery.co.uk Tel: 01454 299236 Meet farmer Richard Grey and his sister Maria Willcox. A family run bakery producing award winning www.severnviewfarm.com See how an organic beef farm runs and hear about handmade cakes and snack bars. Take a tour of Severn View Farm is a small, mixed farm with sheep, the good environmental practices in action on the

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