Food Festival Part 3

Next we passed one of the butchery stalls, these are mainly farm shops, selling the meat reared on their own farms.

This was Cherrington Butchers, of Church Street, Shawbury. They don't have a website listed on their leaflet, and I can't find one on a brief web search, but if you are in their area they are well worth a visit. They are indeed a farmer owned butchers, selling their own beef and lamb. They also sell local home dry cured bacon. All their beef and lamb is grass reared and fully traceable, with the beef being matured for 21 days!At the shop in Shawbury they also stock a wide range of fresh vegetables, when in season, straight form the farm, fresh fruit, local free range eggs, pork pies, pasties, cheese and frozen vegetables.

After that was the stall for Wroxeter Roman Vineyard. I don't have a photo from today, there was indeed a crowd around the stall. But some news, that I picked up form the local newspaper in the last week or so, is that they wil soon be growing olives at their site as well. The owner was off to Italy to collect a set of 350 olive trees.

Next was a stall selling home made jams, chutneys, and baked items. The lady on this stall was very friendly and told us that the banana jam was a recipe she put together especially for her granddaughter. Lucky granddaughter I say.
Another butchery stall next, but this one with a difference, Bings Heath Smokery specialises in high quality smoked salmon, smoked meat, smoked poultry and smoked game. All are guaranteed free from artificial colourings, flavourings and preservatives. I didn't see any taster available today, but I hve tasted their meats before, and can promise you they are delicious.
This was followed, if I remember correctly by a stall with locally flavoured spirits. I didn't get a picture and do not know who they were, since I don't drink spirits myself.

That was followed by another butchery counter, this time the lovely people from Wenlock Edge Farm shop. We had out Christmas joint of pork from them a couple of years ago, and I needed it cut a specific way for what I wanted to do. They obliged with no problem. It's a lovely drive out to the farm shop if ever you get to go, but they do have other stockists in the local area.We occassionally treat ourselves to some of their sausages, my favourite being Pork, Cheddar and Mustard, although one I haven't tried that sounds delicious is Pork, Plum and Ginger. They also, more recently have introduced a range of speciality charcuterie products, all of which they cure themselves on site. these include salami, bratwurst, prosciutto and pancetta.