3672_notts_food_guide_aw3:layout 18/08/2009 09:38 Page 1 NottsNotts NoshNosh Your guide to locally produced food and drink in Nottinghamshire 3672_notts_food_guide_aw3:layout 18/08/2009 09:39 Page 2 Contents A taste of Notts Nosh Nottinghamshire Notts Nosh 04 Why buy local food? Welcome to the fourth edition of Notts 05 How to use this guide Nosh, Nottinghamshire’s essential 06 Healthy eating and seasonal food guide to the best local food and drink. The Food Initiatives Group (FIG) is a food partnership at Groundwork Greater 07 Nottinghamshire Pie In this guide you’ll find lots and dairy producers to Nottingham and supported by the NHS of advice and information butchers and bakers. promoting healthy, sustainable local food. 08 A buyer’s guide to box and bag schemes about the health, ecological There’s also plenty of Groundwork Greater Nottingham is a local regeneration charity that uses 09 Allotments - where to grow your own and economic benefits of advice and information on environmental activities to enable buying local produce. healthy eating, recipes and communities to become sustainable. 10 A buyer’s guide to local markets www.groundworkgreaternottingham.org.uk local attractions. While our We’ve helpful listings We believe good local food is a right and food trails will take you all 12 Farm shops detailing many leading should be at the heart of any community over the county in search rather than a luxury. Use this guide, get in local producers and touch with your community’s food initiatives 16 Dairy producers of great things to eat. or simply ‘grow your own’ to help make this suppliers, from farm shops right a reality. 18 Butchers If you or your organisation would like to receive our ebulletin, seasonal magazine, 20 Bakers find out about our grant scheme or to learn more about FIG, email Leon Ballin at www.foodfig.org.uk. 21 Jams, preserves and pickles 22 Drinks 23 Restaurants 26 Cafés and caterers The contents on pages 8 and 12 to 26 were provided by each individual organisation 27 On the Notts food trail and we cannot be held liable for any Notts Nosh is inaccuracies. Accommodation rates are subject to availability and double 32 Index of local producers and distributors supported by: occupancy may apply. Please make sure you plan ahead of your visit and always check with the relevant business or 35 Nottinghamshire map organisation first. To find out more about Nottinghamshire and for up to date listings, please see www.visitnotts.com. Designed and produced by www.monkie.co.uk 2 3 3672_notts_food_guide_aw3:layout 18/08/2009 09:39 Page 4 Why buy local food? How to use this guide Notts Nosh By using local suppliers you can be certain you’re helping to sustain the unique identity of Notts Nosh Nottinghamshire’s farming and rural communities. But you can also be helping to reduce food miles and protect the environment. By buying local Environmental studies have Less packaging By type of producer instead on developing fertile soil. Key to found that our food and drink This minimises pollution of water produce you could A benefit of buying food locally The main section of the guide organic produce consumption makes the single is that it is usually minimally lists each producer or supplies, land and air, as well as be getting all of largest contribution to our carbon packaged, which helps to cut distributor by type. These are enhancing and protecting the footprint - representing 22% of surrounding habitat. these benefits: down on waste and the use of divided into the following the total. This is higher than the natural resources. categories: impact of household energy Organic livestock farmers consumption and personal travel. Bag and box schemes 08 manage their animals without Health The clear message that we can Local markets 10 the routine use of antibiotics and • access to wholesome, take from this is that buying local Farm shops 12 other drugs because they run a Demeter fresh, tastier and more food can significantly reduce Dairy producers 16 healthy, balanced system - not interesting food our demands on the planet’s Butchers 18 keeping too many animals on a resources. Bakers 20 given area, keeping a mixture of species wherever possible and Environmental Jams, preserves and pickles 21 Drinks 22 using natural organic feedstuffs. • less pollution, less packaging Look out for the icons on the and less transport By area Organic Farmers and Growers right to see if a producer If you’re in a certain area why employs organic methods. Social not look at our food trails from pages 27 to 31. They’ll show • links between urban and rural Restaurants you where you can buy local dwellers and a strengthening Supporting the The restaurants in this guide produce, eat it or find places to of local communities local economy (see page 23) use three or more stay. So you can get a total food items of local produce in their Buying local food helps support Soil Association Organic Standard experience. The index starting menus. Just look out for the small scale producers in the Economic on page 32 is also colour coded Taste of Nottinghamshire logo. region, promoting trade and • creating jobs and promoting to show in which district or keeping money in the local local sustainable enterprise, borough producers are located. economy. Local food will be keeping money within the Food miles easily traceable and you will Organic produce local economy Food miles refer to the distance know where it has come from. food travels from where it is Some of the produce listed in Organic Food Federation grown to where it is purchased, It may not be the perfectly this directory has been certified and then on to where it is shaped, standardised organic, meaning the food has Taste of consumed. Food distribution by product that is favoured by been produced from sustainable Nottinghamshire road freight is now the fastest supermarkets, but you will know farming systems, producing growing transport sector in the it is fresh and that it has not healthy crops and livestock All producers UK. ‘Food miles’ are therefore travelled a great distance round without damage to the For a comprehensive list of contributing significantly to the country or across the world. environment. Organic produce producers, retailers, restaurants East Midlands Fine Foods carbon dioxide emissions and avoids the use of artificial and distributors see the index chemical fertilisers and climate change. on page 32. pesticides on the land, relying 4 5 3672_notts_food_guide_aw3:layout 18/08/2009 09:39 Page 6 Healthy eating and Nottinghamshire Pie Notts Nosh seasonal food Notts Nosh Food by season It is recommended that you eat at least five For a real taste of Nottinghamshire the Waggon Ingredients Winter Brussels sprouts, portions of fruit and vegetables every day to and Horses’ Roy Wood has created a pie from the 900g/2lb diced cauliflowers, carrots, cabbages, help reduce the risks of heart disease, stroke best local produce. chuck steak leeks, mushrooms, parsnips, and cancer. As a rough guide a ‘portion’ can best pumpkins, shallots, spinach, 40g/1½oz flour squash, swede, turnip be described as a handful, so a child’s portion is (lightly seasoned) smaller than an adult’s portion. Spring Asparagus, beetroot, 90g/3oz butter broad beans, carrots, cauliflowers, Eating locally grown produce The list on the left is an Two whole leeks, celery, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, according to what is in season approximate guide to what washed and chopped purple broccoli, radishes, means you can eat fresher, tastier, is available in each season rhubarb, spinach, spring greens, Two sprigs of thyme healthier food with minimal impact of the year. watercress upon the environment in terms of 1½ litre/3 pints beef stock Summer Asparagus, aubergines, food miles. To find out more about (cubes are good for this) blackberries, blueberries, healthy eating go to: One tablespoon blackcurrants, broad beans, Fresh fruit and vegetables have www.5aday.nhs.uk wholegrain mustard broccoli, cabbages, carrots, higher vitamin content than www.eatwell.gov.uk cauliflowers, celery, cherries, older produce. 900g/2lb potatoes, courgettes, cucumbers, french peeled, boiled, mashed beans, gooseberries, green beans, The eatwell plate and seasoned fennel, leeks, lettuce, loganberries, Use the eatwell plate to help get the balance mushrooms, onions, peas, 90g/3oz Stilton right. It shows how much of what you eat (Colston Bassett or peppers, plums, raspberries, should come from each food group. redcurrants, rhubarb, runner This recipe serves four Cropwell Bishop ideally) beans, spinach, strawberries, Preparation time approximately 30 minutes Fruit and Bread, rice, potatoes, One slice of bread, sweetcorn, tomatoes Cooking time over two hours vegetables pasta and other toasted, then grated Autumn Apples, aubergines, starchy Method to make breadcrumbs beetroot, blackberries, broccoli, foods 1. Coat the steak with the seasoned flour. Put a large pan on the brussels sprouts, cabbages, stove to heat. carrots, cauliflowers, courgettes, 2. Melt the butter into the pan then add the meat, cook until sealed. cucumbers, curly kale, damsons, figs, french beans, grapes, leeks, 3. Add the leeks, mustard and thyme, pour in the stock. lettuce, marrows, mushrooms, Simmer for two hours, stirring occasionally. onions, parsnips, pears, peppers, plums, pumpkin, runner beans, 4. Make the mash while the meat is cooking. spinach, squash, swede, 5. Preheat the oven to 220ºC/425ºF/Gas 7 sweetcorn, tomatoes 6. Check the meat is tender, then pour into an ovenproof dish Meat, fish, Milk and and cover with the mashed potato. eggs, beans and dairy foods 7. Top with the Stilton and breadcrumbs then bake for 20 minutes other non-dairy Foods and until golden brown. sources of protein drinks high in fat and/or sugar 8.