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Our producers of
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Harvey's 'Green Pastures' Poultry New House VenisonA 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. |
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BEST IN DORSET - PRODUCERS OF MEATS & MEAT PRODUCTS |
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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 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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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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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 marketsAddress: 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 Address: Phil & Sonia Harvey Gold Oak Farm Crendell Fordingbridge SP6 3EA Telephone: 01725 517027 |
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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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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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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 Address: 11 Meadow Close Burley Ringwood Hampshire BH24 4ES Telephone: 01425 402181 |
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New House VenisonVenison 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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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 FarmBrian 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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