FREE GUIDE AND MAP Local Produce Guide 2021/22 We are proud to champion local businesses offering local produce in the New Forest. The Sign of True Local Produce newforestmarque.co.uk How to use this Guide The 2021/22 edition of the New Forest Marque Local Produce Guide is divided into three sections: food and craft, art, trees retail and hospitality drink and education page 6 page 17 page 25 The listings in each section are presented alphabetically in sub-categories that you will find signposted on the first page of each section. There is also an index on pages 36 and 37 that lists all the Marque members in this publication alphabetically. Our New Forest Marque map is on pages 22 and 23, where you’ll find a selection of our members who would be delighted to receive a visit from you. local produce Online, wholesale and/or retail Icons by each member’s listing indicate whether shop, stay produce and products are available: and eat o online, w wholesale, and/or r at a retail crafts and gifts outlet, or direct from the producer. You can link to all our members’ websites at www.newforestmarque.co.uk and follow us on plants and more social media for up-to-date news about us and our amazing members. Young commoner 01590 646648 Will Parry-Norton on the family’s [email protected] holding. 02 newforestmarque.co.uk the sign of true local produce newforestmarque.co.uk the sign of true local produce 1 New forest commoning HE New Forest Marque is Tthe stamp of approval given to food, drink and craft producers including New Forest commoners, farmers and growers as well as those who use locally-sourced ingredients in their finished products. But it’s more than just a logo. It helps preserve cultural heritage and traditional commoning practices, rural skills and traditions which for centuries have influenced and created the distinctive New Forest landscape and ecosystem. Pete Niccolls and some of his herd of pedigree Dexters, who can be seen grazing in the Beaulieu area. The New Forest Marque began in 2004 as Forest Friendly Farming, to support membership of people commoners and farmers in dedicated to championing the New Forest. New Forest produce and It’s thanks to commoning Like all farmers, commoners go out in all weathers to check their stock, Welcome! good provenance. that we can enjoy an but first they have to find them when they are free-roaming on the Forest! All New Forest Marque abundance of local produce The New Forest has many wonderful growers, goods must meet strict here in the New Forest. p producers, makers and suppliers – all making criteria that guarantees they This traditional system of forage on unfenced common are truly local. Hospitality and land management goes back land and are all owned by the very best use of what the area has to offer. retail members with the logo centuries and today is very local families. Thanks to offer their customers a wide much still a big part of the The free-roaming livestock HEN buying local, look The New Forest Marque selection of Marque produce. working Forest. are sometimes described commoning Wfor the New Forest has around 160 members, So, whether you’re looking Commoners exercise as the ‘architects of the Marque which is the sign of proudly representing many for local and seasonal food the commoning rights that Forest’, as their grazing has we enjoy an true local produce. You’ll areas of New Forest business, and drink, a special treat, or a go with the land they own, shaped how the area looks know that anything with the including food and drink; beautifully crafted gift, enjoy rent or share that allows today, with big, accessible abundance of distinctive logo is grown, hospitality and retail; craft, browsing the wide range of them to graze their animals open landscapes which are local produce reared, brewed, produced or art, trees and education. New Forest Marque members on the open forest. Ponies, internationally-protected and processed here in the The organisation is in this directory – it’s the sign cattle, pigs, donkeys and in home to wildlife that’s rare in p New Forest. constantly expanding its of true local produce. some areas, sheep, graze and other parts of the country. 2 newforestmarque.co.uk the sign of true local produce newforestmarque.co.uk the sign of true local produce 3 In the autumn, commoners let their pigs loose on the Forest to hoover up fallen Keep it local! acorns which are poisonous to ponies and cattle – a Let’s all support local produce in 2021/22 practice known as pannage – it has never been more important. which dates all the way back to the time of William the p their ways of working to offer Conqueror, who founded local home deliveries so that 2020 saw unprecedented the New Forest in 1079. customers could enjoy their The exact weeks when pigs changes to how people live Sally Fear is a practising favourite restaurant meals are let out are decided by Commoner and photo- and work. During the first from the comfort of their the Verderers and Forestry lockdown many Marque journalist. She has been own homes. Some businesses England according to how members adjusted their documenting the way of life of introduced Drive Through businesses to support local the New Forest commoners, the season is looking. For and Click and Collect options, example, this year’s pannage their stock and their landscape communities. as well as developing their season has extended to the for over twenty years, and Hotels, restaurants, pubs menus to include freshly end of December because of and cafés that were forced to we are grateful to her for so prepared ready meals to a glut of acorns. close completely because of generously spending time re-heat or freeze as needed. Covid-19 restrictions changed photographing some of Pannage is also known Others stayed open, as common of mast, and our Commoning members continuing to offer quality, it traditionally enabled for this, the latest 2021/22 p fresh produce when national commoners to fatten their edition, of the New Forest supply chains came under pigs for slaughter and salting Marque Local Produce Guide. These pressure. in the winter. Pannage pork Generally, New Forest is known for its unique, nutty p businesses Marque producers are small, flavour. artisan businesses, farming Pedigree beef cattle are Front cover image and page 3 : went the and growing on a small scale. also turned out onto the Andrew and Will Parry These businesses went the Forest, and their grazing and Norton were photographed extra mile extra mile to provide for the poaching of the ground out on the forest with their their communities, offering (where their hooves tread for their sheep – commoning families vital support and lifelines for near ponds and streams) pass on knowledge from one people – many of whom are subsequently create fantastic communities, generation to the next. vulnerable. habitats for wildlife. Every Why not see what your animal labelled with the New offering vital p local producers and retailers Forest Marque logo will have support and can offer? Pages 2 and 4 : spent at least half of its life In this directory, you’ll find Sally also spent time with grazing in the New Forest. lifelines for the full range of fantastic New Pete Niccolls and took vulnerable Forest Marque produce and these pictures of him and his services available locally. Hatchett Herd of Pedigree people… Dexters, documenting the Thank you for keeping it course of his working day. The sign of True Local p local in 2021 and beyond. Produce. 4 newforestmarque.co.uk the sign of true local produce newforestmarque.co.uk the sign of true local produce 5 Food and Food and drink drink Bakers and cake makers La Patisserie Macaron wro Chocolate and confectionery Producer of luxury, handcrafted Berry’s Bakery wr macarons using locally sourced Beaulieu Chocolate Studio food and Great-tasting, home-produced cakes wr raw ingredients. Small manufacturer and retailer available for wholesale and retail sales. 17 Yerville Gardens, Hordle, of quality, handmade chocolates. Unit 1, Setters Workshops, SO41 0UL. High Street, Beaulieu, SO42 7YA. Mount Pleasant Lane, Tel: 07717 763557 Tel: 01590 612279 Lymington, SO41 8LS. drink Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: 01590 674405 Web: lapatisseriemacaron.co.uk Web: beaulieuchocolatestudio.co.uk Email: [email protected] B ABV Web: berrysbakery.co.uk New Forest Cake House w Fordingbridge Fudge Ltd wo Award-winning, home-style baking Producers of traditional, Doe & Sons Bakehouse wro using local ingredients. luxury quality, old-fashioned, An artisan bakery based in the Wholesale suppliers. homemade fudge. New Forest producing high quality, The Dairy, Lower Bisterne Farm, Fordingbridge. handmade, freshly-baked breads, and Ringwood, BH24 3BW. Tel: 01425 658277 or 07859 067707 Food and Drink sweet and savoury baked goods. Tel: 01425 471616 Email: [email protected] Unit 12, Williams Industrial Park, Email: [email protected] Web: fordingbridgefudge.co.uk B Gore Road, New Milton, Web: newforestcakehouse.co.uk B categories BH25 6SH. Tel: 07496 081015 New Forest Shortbread Ltd wo Dairy and eggs or 07759 390687 Shortbread homemade at Bakers and cake makers • page 6 Email: [email protected] Burley Rails Cottage, New Forest. Claytons Eggs w Local free-range egg producer. Web: doeandsonsbakehouse.co.uk Burley Rails Cottage, Burley, Chocolate and confectionery Ringwood, BH24 4HT. Kitts Merries Farm, ABV Tel: 01425 403735 The Frenches, East Wellow, page 7 Romsey, SO51 6FE. Dotty Biscotti wr or 07471 684639 Deliciously different biscotti, Email: [email protected] Tel: 01794 513242 nutritiously nutty, fabulously Web: burleyrailscottage.co.uk/new-forest- Email: [email protected] Dairy and eggs • page 7 fruity, or darkly chocolatey.