Hampshire Farmers' Markets

Farmers’ Markets – good prices and a great day out

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Hampshire Farmers Markets are offering a fantastic chance to win £100 and a personal shopper to accompany you around a Hampshire Farmers’ Market.

To be in with a chance of winning, purchase a copy of this week’s Hampshire Chronicle or the Southampton Daily Echo which also features an article on HFM and great offer vouchers to cut out and use.

Hampshire Farmers Markets operate in locations throughout Hampshire and offer the best of local food and products that have all been produced within the county or ten miles of its borders.

£100 can buy a lot of great value produce at one of our markets – just pop into your local newspaper seller and buy a copy to find out how to win!

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Hampshire Farmers’ Markets’ drinks producer, Mr Whitehead’s Drinks has struck a deal to bring fresh, local apple juice to the county’s schools.

The company, based in Alton, is to supply Hampshire County Council Catering Services (HC3S) and Southampton City Catering with apple juice for school meals in over 500 primary and 40 secondary schools across the two authorities.

The deal will also see the form bring apple juice to all Hampshire County Council care homes.

The juice will be made from various varieties of apples including Cox, Royal Gala, Bramley, Russet, Discovery, and Braeburn, and are all grown on Blackmoor Estate near Liss.

The juice is pressed and bottled at Selborne near Alton and contains no added sugar, chemicals, flavours or preservative. Previously, apple juice on the school meals menu was imported.

Angus Whitehead of Mr Whitehead’s Drinks said: “This opportunity provides Mr Whitehead’s Drinks with long term stability. For children to learn about how food is produced and where it comes from has to be good for their education. With all the various varieties of apples we’re using throughout the year they’ll also be able to discover how different apples have different flavours. We’re also planning to be able to invite school groups to come and see how apple juice is made and have a go at pressing juice.”

More information about this apple juice is available at www.mr-whiteheads-drinks.co.uk. The deal was brokered by county foods group, Hampshire Fare.

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Hampshire Farmers’ Market producer Martin Martindale of Greenfield Pork Products has been awarded Supreme Champion of the 2010 Great Hampshire, Sausage, Pie & Ready Meal Competition, for his free range pork, goat’s cheese and watercress sausage.

Greenfield Pork, based in Andover, also won champion trophies for Best Hampshire Sausage, Best Speciality Pork Sausage, Best Traditional Pork Sausage and Best Hampshire Farmers’ Market Entry. The competition was held by Hampshire Fare, the county food group.

Greenfield Pork rears its own free-range pigs, ensuring that the meat in his sausages is high quality and that consumers know the origin of the meat.

The Great Hampshire Sausage, Pie & Ready Meal competition is sponsored by The British Pig Executive, with support from Hampshire County Council, SEEDA and Lucas Ingredients.

Hampshire Farmer’s Markets spokesman Alex Handford said, “We send our very best congratulations to Martin. His sausages are really tasty and this award can only boost awareness that buying local is best for the Hampshire economy as well as best for the customer.”
Martin and his Greenfield Pork products are available at most Hampshire Farmers Markets  held around the county and will be at Andover  markets this Sunday. For further details contact the market office on:  01420 588671.

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The Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Romsey is permanently moving to a new location in 2010. The new market, will be held at Alma Road Car Park from Sunday 7^th February 2010.

Romsey market is held bi-monthly and is very popular with local people. However, the opportunity arose to move to a larger, much more central location in the town which will enable the market to expand and give more people the opportunity to take advantage of local produce.

To celebrate the change the market on Sunday 7^th February will be a hive of cooking activity. We’ll have our cooking unit at the market and will have cooking demonstrations from Lainston House at Sparsholt, The White Horse in Romsey and The Wheatsheaf at Braishfield.

Some of the recipes will have an ‘apple’ theme, to coincide with National Bramley Apple Week.

Also at the market for the children will be a petting animal farm with ponies, sheep, calves, rabbits and chickens amongst others.

Hampshire Farmers Markets has strict criteria for its producers which means that anything sold at market must have been grown, reared, baked, pickled or otherwise produced within Hampshire or ten miles of its borders. This means that whatever you buy, you are supporting the local economy and its farmers.

Our producers have pulled out all the stops with special offers at the new Romsey market:

• Offer  1 – Greenfield Pork giving 10% off their King Alfred sausages and sliced bacon
• Offer 2 – Hampshire Provender offering 10% of all its products which include soups and sauces.
• Offer 3 – Lyburn Cheeses offer 10% off if you spend £5.
• Offer 4 – Sunnyfields Organics – spend £8.00 on vegetables and get 1kg bag of salad potatoes FREE.
• Offer 5 – Hill Farm Apple Juice buy any three bottles of apple juice and get the fourth FREE.
• Offer 6 – The Crab Shack – buy 2 seafood chowder or 2 crab pate and receive 3^rd half price.
• Offer 7 – Nutknowle Goats Cheeses (HFM Guest Producer) – offering 3 x Herby Rolls for £8.50 saving £2.00 of usual price.
• Offer 8 – New House Venison any 3 packs of sausages for £7.00 (all flavours).
• Offer 9 – Beechcroft Lamb & Beef – offer 30p of their range of sausages.
• Offer 10 – Godshill Organic – offer for every £7.00 spent on any vegetables receive a free tub of soup
• Offer 11 – Noah’s Ark Farm – Spend £5.00 or more and receive a discount of 50p.
• Offer 12 – Cyril’s Soap Shed – 50p off any bar of scented soap.
• Offer 13 – The Dorset Blueberry Co. – 50p off deep crust Blueberry Pies

One voucher per transaction, applicable to all the above offers. The vouchers offers are available in the Romsey Advertiser this week.

Our Markets in February take place at the following locations:

Petersfield  – 7 February

Romsey – 7 February

Alton – 13 February

Winchester 14 February

Andover – 21 February

Southsea – 21 February

Winchester 28 February

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Every Friday  join BBC Radio Solent’s Jon Cuthill and one of our Hampshire Farmers’ Markets producers for the best of Hampshire cookery.

The show can be heard between 0930 and 1pm on 93.1FM and 103.8FM as well as DAB.

You may be able to catch up the previous Friday’s programme at the BBC Radio Solent i player site

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Visit Chandlers Ford Farmers’ Market for the best of breakfast offers.

It’s said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that’s especially true in the cold, dark winter months.  But many of us rush off to work or school without bothering with a breakfast boost to help get us going.

This January, between the 24^th and 30^th, Hampshire Farmers’ Markets is supporting National Farmhouse Breakfast Week which aims to highlight how vital it is to ensure that adults and children alike start the day the right way.

On 24^th January at Chandlers Ford Farmers’ Market, we have lots of special offers of breakfast goods available.  While you’re there, why not also explore our many producers who produce fine fare that has all been reared, grown, bottled, baked or pickled within Hampshire or ten miles of the border.

Our offers include:

• Greenfield Pork giving 10% off their King Alfred sausages and sliced bacon
• Hampshire Provender offering 10% of all its products which include soups and sauces.
• Lyburn Cheeses offer 10% off if you spend £5.
• Sunnyfields Organics – spend £8.00 on vegetables and get 1kg bag of salad potatoes FREE.
• Hill Farm Apple Juice buy any three bottles of apple juice and get the fourth FREE.
• The Crab Shack – buy 2 seafood chowder or 2 crab pate and receive 3^rd half price.
• Nutknowle Goats Cheeses – offering 3 x Herby Rolls for £8.50 saving £2.00 of usual price.
• New House Venision any 3 packs of sausages for £7.00 (all flavours).
• Beechcroft Lamb & Beef – 30p off their range of sausages

We’re even offering a great Quick Kedgeree recipe, available below and downloadable from our website – with ingredients available at our markets. Start 2010 the right way, by supporting your local Farmers’ Market. It’s a great way to make a contribution to your local economy and to help the environment, as well as giving you and your family the best quality food around.

Quick Kedgeree with Smoked Trout

300g Cooked Rice

3 eggs, hard boiled

1 dessertspoon of Pratt’s rapeseed oil

1 shallot, diced

150g Smoked trout

½ lemon – juice only

Small bunch of parsley, chopped.

Cook rice according to the instructions on the packet. Shell the eggs and cut into quarters. Then heat the oil in a pan, add the shallot and cook gently until softened. Stir it into the rice and cook for 2 minutes. Then add the egg and parsley and stir carefully. Slice the trout and add to the pan. Finally squeeze over the lemon juice and serve. Delicious for either breakfast or supper!

Editor’s Notes

1. Hampshire Farmers’ Markets is a not for profit company
2. Hampshire Farmers’ Markets website can be found at http://www.hampshirefarmersmarkets.co.uk.
3. For more information on this press release, please contact Alex Handford (Business Manager) or via email to: alex@hampshirefarmersmarkets.co.uk
4. Farmhouse Breakfast Week’s website can be found at http://www.farmhousebreakfast.com/

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In spite of deep snow and sub-zero temperatures, Hampshire Farmers’ Markets producers still turned out at Winchester yesterday at the twice-monthly market.
At a time when many shoppers are finding supermarkets shelves empty and online shopping deliveries cancelled, it was still possible to find high quality local meat, vegetables and other produce at the Farmers’ Market in the city centre.
Despite farmers finding the extreme weather especially difficult as they tend crops and livestock, they are still getting goods to market and Hampshire Farmers Markets is calling for local shoppers to support them in their efforts by visiting their local market.
On the Isle of Wight, producers Godshill Organics didn’t miss a single home delivery to customers from its Farm Shop and other producers have been getting through barely passable roads, unlike many council services.
Hampshire Farmers’ Market spokesman, Alex Handford, said: “I am amazed at the dedication of our producers who’ve battled the worst weather to make sure that customers are not left without fresh food. It just goes to show how much better it is to buy local rather than to rely on food shipped in from across the country or abroad.”
Next weekend there are markets on 17th January at both Andover and Southsea.

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Listen in to “Foodie Friday” on BBC Solent’s John Cuthill Show with Andy MacKenzie and Andrian Cant from Lainston House, Sparsholt.  Nadine Dukeson was taken through the process of bread making and had ago at it herself.

Click on this link and scroll through the time to 2h 13min for the start of the feature. This feature is the first in a series with Hampshire Farmers Markets’ Producers. Stand by for more to come including sausage and burger making, chocolate and also cheesing-making.

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