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 Gloucestershire 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 Chipping Sodbury 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 South Gloucestershire 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 Bristol 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 Wickwar 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 Alveston, 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 Tortworth 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 Dyrham 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. Yate 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, Bitton, Upton Cheyney 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.