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Our producers of meats are:

Barnes of Martinstown

Brook Wood Farm

Cranborne Farms

H. G. Witt and Son

Ham Street Produce

Harvey's 'Green Pastures' Poultry

L&C Game

New Forest Bacon

New Forest Flavoursome Foods

New House Venison

Pond Head Farm

Wyke Oliver Farm

A bit about Meat


The meat in your local supermarket will have been produced by a factory process, with animals going in at one end, fattened, loaded into a lorry and taken for slaughter and then butchered. The meat is often hard because the animal was full of adrenalin when it died. Quality is secondary to price - it is important to a supermarket to be able to say that they are the cheapest. A far cry from the family farm where the animals are cared for and looked after. Once slaughtered the meat is hung to improve its flavour, beef for a minimum of three weeks, and then cut into joints that are appropriate for the market that they will go to. Sausages will be made on the farm to the farmer’s own, often unique recipes. Bacon is cured by hand too.

 

BEST IN DORSET - PRODUCERS OF MEATS & MEAT PRODUCTS

 

Barnes of Martinstown

Norman and Liz Barnes and family now concentrate on the farm shop, but still attend our more local markets. The family run farm provides home grown beef, lamb and pork. They have developed many different sausages, their own home cured bacon and the very popular Faddle of Dorset Savouries. There is a spacious coffee parlour at the shop, and an area where you may see pigs goats and calves as well as rabbits and guinea pigs and chickens - a delight for children of all ages.

Markets: Weymouth, Verwood

Address:

Stevens Farm Shop

Martinstown

Dorchester

DT2 9JR

Telephone: 01305 889216

Email: barnesnje@farmersweekly.co.uk

 

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Broke Wood Farm

Producers of fine quality beef

Markets: Weymouth

Address: Mark & Lucy Doggerall

Brokewood Farm

Bishops Down

Sherborne

Dorset

DT9 5PN

Telephone: 01963 210758

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Cranborne Farms

Cranborne Farms produce their own range of meats, sausages, own-cured bacon and faggots from their mouth-watering range of traditional breed meat. Their pork, beef and lamb, all bred on the Cranborne Estate, has a particularly distinctive and sumptuous flavour. Seasonal tender Estate game (venison and pheasant) is also available.

Markets: Verwood

Address:

Cranborne Farm shop

1 The Square

Cranborne

Wimborne

Dorset

BH21 5PR

Telephone: 01725 517168

Website: www.cranbornestores.co.uk

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H. G. Witt and Son - From their farm at Fordingbridge on the edge of the New Forest they are producers of beef and lamb and free range eggs. Markets: Verwood

H. G. Witt and Son

From their farm at Fordingbridge on the edge of the New Forest they are producers of beef and lamb and free range eggs.

Markets: Verwood

Address:

Nigel & Eileen Witt

Midgham Farm

Midgham

Fordingbridge

SP6 3DA

Telephone: 01425 653757

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Ham Street Produce

Lovely ginger Tamworth pigs produce pork and bacon that ranks amongst the best. Joy Bush makes faggots and daughter Emma creates hand-raised pork pies and scrummy raspberry roulades, meringue and cream, very naughty but very nice.

Markets: They are not presently attending our markets

Address:

Joy and Emma Bush

Ham Street Farm

Back Lane

Baltonsborough

Glastonbury

Somerset

BA6 8QB

Telephone: 01458 850508

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Harvey's 'Green Pastures' Poultry - Genuine free range chickens and ducks from birds that are bred to mature more slowly. Available as whole birds dressed and ready for the oven, or as breasts, thighs, drumsticks or wings. Markets: Wareham, Verwood

Harvey's 'Green Pastures' Poultry

Genuine free range chickens and ducks from birds that are bred to mature more slowly. Available as whole birds dressed and ready for the oven, or as breasts, thighs, drumsticks or wings.

Markets: Wareham, Verwood

Address:

Phil & Sonia Harvey

Gold Oak Farm

Crendell

Fordingbridge

SP6 3EA 

Telephone: 01725 517027

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L&C Game

Adrian and Carolyn Spicer sell all kinds of local game. Their range includes venison, wild boar, both as pork and cured ham, pigeon breast, duck breast, again plain or cured, and pheasant, and rabbit.

Markets: Weymouth, Winton

Address:

A Spicer

Court Farm Business Park

Buckland Newton

Dorchester

Dorset

DT2 7BT 

Telephone: 01300 345271

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New Forest Bacon. Bacon and ham from pigs reared in woodland  - the pig’s natural habitat - on the Somerley Estate. Markets: Winton, Verwood.

New Forest Bacon

Bacon and ham from pigs reared in woodland  - the pig’s natural habitat - on the Somerley Estate.

Markets: Winton, Verwood

Address:

Nigel Collins

6 Linnet Close

Hightown

Ringwood

BH24 3RE

Telephone: 01425 477626

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New Forest Flavoursome Foods. Tom Robinson keeps an assortment of traditional breed animals. Well known as a prize winner at local shows, his meat products are of the highest quality. Markets: Wareham, Boscombe, Weymouth, Winton and Verwood

New Forest Flavoursome Foods

Tom Robinson keeps an assortment of traditional breed animals. Well known as a prize winner at local shows, his meat products are of the highest quality.

Markets: Wareham, Boscombe, Weymouth, Winton and Verwood

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Address:

11 Meadow Close

Burley

Ringwood

Hampshire

BH24 4ES

Telephone: 01425 402181

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New House Venison

Venison from the New Forest, the descendants of the deer that William Rufus was hunting and the common people poached! Now brought to you in all cuts (and quite legally) and sausages.

Markets: Verwood

Address:

Monique Gudgeon

Gill’s Hole Farm

Redlynch

Salisbury

SP5 2JE

Telephone: 01794 884543

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Pond Head Farm

A family run farm producing many different meat products. Mr and Mrs Mabbott also hold farm walks and open days for holiday makers in their area.

Markets: Boscombe, Winton.

Address:

Pondhead Farm

Beaulieu Road

Lyndhurst

Hampshire

SO43 7FZ

Telephone: 02380 282003

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Wyke Oliver Farm - Brian and Anne Barnes and daughter Tracey keep pigs, goats and also chickens, ducks and geese. The goat’s meat is very popular as are the various eggs some of which are a bluish green from Araucana hens. Anne’s home-made cakes, some from recipes unique to her, are made only with their own free range eggs and local butter. Markets: Wareham, Weymouth

Wyke Oliver Farm

Brian and Anne Barnes and daughter Tracey keep pigs, goats and also chickens, ducks and geese. The goat’s meat is very popular as are the various eggs some of which are a bluish green from Araucana hens. Anne’s home-made cakes, some from recipes unique to her, are made only with their own free range eggs and local butter.

Markets: Wareham, Weymouth

Wyke Oliver Farm

Preston

Weymouth

Dorset

DT3 6EW

Telephone: 01305 832273

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