Farmers’ Markets continued from overleaf Downend Farmers’ Market 4th Friday every month / 8.45am-12.30pm Country Markets For detailed information visit their website Local Seasonal Food Spring Autumn Christ Church Hall, North Street, Downend, Bristol www.country-markets.co.uk Here’s how you can eat more seasonal food: Fruit & Veg. Meat & Fish Fruit & Veg. Meat & Fish Dursley Farmers’ Market Doynton Be aware of the rhythms of nature from spring, summer, autumn and winter Asparagus Leeks Turnip Cockles Dursley Town Hall Apples Mushrooms Duck Doynton Village Hall. Toghill Lane Cauliflower Purple Sprouting Wild Garlic 2nd Saturday / 9am-1pm Buy your food from small local outlets – farmers’ markets, local shops, farm Lemon Sole Aubergine Onions Clams 10.30am-11.30am 1st & 3rd Sat shops, roadside stalls Cabbage Radishes Watercress Mussels Blackberries Peppers Grouse Fishponds Farmers’ Market Chard Rhubarb Sardines Cabbage Parsnips Guinea fowl Marshfield , often tastier varieties Chicory Spinach Sea Bass Straits Parade, Fishponds, Bristol Buy different Carrots Pears Haddock The Church Hall, Tormarton Lane Kale Spring Onions Sea Trout 2nd Thursday / 9am-1.30pm greengrocer and butcher – or get an organic vegetable Cauliflower Plums Halibut 10.30am-11.30am every Fri Shop at your local Cucumber Potatoes Hare and fruit box delivered to your door Gloucester Farmers’ Market Figs Pumpkin Oysters Keynsham The Cross & Southgate Street, Gloucester – either in your back garden or on an allotment French beans Runner Beans Pheasant The Fear Institute, High Street Grow it yourself Every Friday / 9am-3pm Garlic Spinach Plaice 10.30am-11.30am every Fri Kale Sweetcorn Rabbit Keynsham Lettuce Tomatoes Scallops Chipping Sodbury Fear Institute, High Street “A thriving household Melons Venison Stall at Chipping Sodbury Farmers 2nd Sat of the month 9am-1pm depends on the use of Market last Thurs in month & 2nd Sat 9am-1.30pm Tel: 01458 830801 seasonal produce and Thornbury the application of Nailsworth Farmers’ Market common sense.” Stall at Thornbury Farmers Market Mortimer Gardens, Nailsworth 1st Thurs of month 9am-1pm 4th Saturday of every month / 9am-1pm Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) Stroud Farmers’ Market Bath Stall at Bath Farmers Market at Green Park, Bath Cornhill Market Place and surrounding streets 1st & 3rd Sat of the month 9am-1pm Summer Every Saturday / 9am-2pm Fruit & Veg. Meat & Fish Winter Westbury-on-Trym Local Produce Market Aubergine Fennel Soft fruit - Crab Fruit & Veg. Meat & Fish Westbury-on-Trym School, Channels Hill, Broad Beans French Beans gooseberries, Grey mullet Westbury-on-Trym Apples Chestnuts Shallots Goose Broccoli Garlic raspberries, Herring 4th Saturday of each month / 10am-2pm Beetroot Cranberries Swede Guinea fowl Cabbage Lettuce strawberries, Lamb Brussel Sprouts Leeks Turnip Lobster Carrots Mangetout blackcurrants, Mackerel Whiteladies Farmers’ Market Cabbage - Red, Onions Pheasant Cauliflower Mushrooms redcurrants, Pilchards Corner of Apsley & Whiteladies Road, Bristol Savoy, January Parsnips Plaice Celery New Potatoes whitecurrants Salmon 1st Friday and 3rd Saturday / 8.30am-1.30pm King, Dutch White Pears Rabbit Cherries Peppers Spinach Skate Cauliflower Potatoes Scallops Cucumber Peas Tomatoes Trout Wotton-under-Edge Farmers’ Market Celeriac Pumpkin Turkey Courgettes Radish Watercress Sea Trout Town Hall, Market Street, Wotton Celery Quinces Venison Elderflowers Rhubarb 1st Saturday / 9am-1pm More Farmers’ markets in the area include: Bradford on Avon, Chippenham, Devizes, Malmesbury. You can also see information on Farmers’ markets near you by visiting the website at: www.farmersmarkets.net Grow Your Own Contact Details: Local Food and Drink You could always grow your own fruit and If you are a local producer, supplier vegetables! Allotments are available from or retailer and are interested in being Directory - Enjoy the benefits! South Gloucestershire Council or your included in the next edition, or if you would local Parish Council. For more information like further information on the work of the Taste Welcome to the fourth edition of the Local food has been defined as: on allotments visit the National Society of Taste South Gloucestershire Local Local Food Partnership contact: “Food produced in or around South Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Limited Food and Drink Directory. This leaflet Gloucestershire or at the nearest website or to enquire at Local Food Co-ordinator on 01454 863883 is designed to encourage local people www.nsalg.org.uk South Gloucestershire convenient centre of production. the Council, visit the website: or email [email protected] to take full advantage of the food and drink on offer from local producers. Manufactured foods will be classed www.southglos.gov.uk/allotments You can also visit the website: as local if one of the main ingredients for more www.southgloslocalfood.org Local Food & Drink Buying locally produced food can help is produced in or around South details and can use the map to find your support the local economy, reduce Gloucestershire or at the nearest nearest local producer. Box Schemes the number of miles food travels and convenient centre of production.” Directory Promoting local food aims to “build It’s possible to get organic fruit and The information in this publication helps to reduce the amount of waste more locally based, self-reliant food vegetables delivered to your door. Although is correct at the time of printing. As packaging. The food is often fresher economies in which sustainable food all the produce may not be locally sourced, information can change regularly, it is and it is reassuring to know where production, processing and distribution they can be a good way of getting fresh always best to telephone first to check and how the food has been produced. is done for the benefit of people living fruit and vegetables and you can request the details are still correct or look at Overleaf you will find a list of local in a particular place”. only locally sourced food. the updated directory on the South shops and outlets where you can buy Gloucestershire Council website locally produced food. If you live in Thornbury, the Thornbury This directory has been compiled by www.southglos.gov.uk Organic Co-op may be able to help South Gloucestershire Council on you to buy more local produce. All information has been taken in good behalf of the South Gloucestershire Telephone 01454 415345 for faith. Although we have done our best Local Food Partnership, a group of details. to verify that products listed are of local local people and representatives origin, we cannot provide a guarantee. of local organisations who want to You can also visit: improve the availability of local food. www.soilassociation.org With thanks to: Rural Renaissance Please let us know if you wish to be for more information on the included in the next edition, or if you many organic box schemes know of any producers or retailers available or visit we’ve missed. Our contact details are www.gsfruits.co.uk for on the back page. non-organic. This information can be made available in other languages, in Directory updated August 2008. large print, braille, Designed by South Gloucestershire or on audio tape. Council DESIGN + PRINT Services Please telephone 01454 868009 Printed on recycled paper S if you need any of these. 3878 | 08 | 08 -PDBMGPPEFOKPZUIFCFOFmUT Frocester Fayre Farm Shop - Pork, Beef, Kings Vinegars Puddleditch Farm Shop - Fruit, Vegetables, Snowdrop Cottage - Pastries and preserves The Hawkesbury Shop WJ Gazard & Son - Free-range eggs Producers Lamb, Poultry, Sausages, Burgers, Pies, Ready Meals Backfield Farm Business Park, Wotton Road, Cheeses, Preserves, Bacon, Sausages, Burgers, Fruit Email: [email protected] - Grocers and general stores Naite Farm, Oldbury-on-Severn, South Church Farm, Frocester, Stonehouse, Iron Acton, South Gloucestershire BS37 9XD Juices, Soft Drinks, Eggs, Potatoes, Cakes, Local Farmers’ Markets: Thornbury, Chipping Sodbury High Street, Hawkesbury Upton, Badminton, South Gloucestershire BS35 1RU Tel: 01454 412448 Gloucestershire GL10 3TJ Tel: 01454 228274 Flour and Redland (Bristol) Gloucestershire GL9 1AU Email: [email protected] Cotswold Spring Water - Bottled Water Hobbs House Bakery Ltd (Wholesale) Tel: 01453 822054 Fax: 01453 791290 Email: [email protected] Puddleditch Farm, Berkeley Heath, Berkeley, Tel: 01454 238639 Dodington Spring, Dodington Ash, Chipping - Artisan Breads, Pastries & Cakes Website: www.frocesterfayre.co.uk Website: www.kingsvinegars.co.uk Gloucestershire GL13 9EU Sweet Art Cakes Whitfield Farm Organics Sodbury, South Gloucestershire BS37 6RX Unit 6, Chipping Edge Estate, Hatters Lane, Opening details: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm Tel: 01453 810816 Fax: 01453 810266 - Hand crafted cakes for weddings, anniversaries, Tortworth Estate Shop - Vegetables, Fruit, Meat - Organic Beef, ready cooked meals Tel: 01454 312403 Fax: 01454 273378 Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire Farmers Markets: Bristol, Chipping Sodbury, Manor Farm Shop - Pork Sausages, Pork (from Website: www.puddleditchfarm.co.uk birthdays and other celebrations Products, pastries, cakes, bread Whitfield Farm, Falfield, South Gloucestershire Email: [email protected] BS37 6AA Thornbury. Gloucestershire Old Spot), Beef (Aberdeen Angus) - Opening details: Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm, Weds Downend, Bristol Tel: 0117 956 9800 Box Walk, Tortworth, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 8DR Website: www.cotswold-spring.co.uk Tel: 01454 321629 Fax: 01454 329757