18 years ago North Dorset sheep farmer Mark Botwright received a handful of garlic bulbs from wife Wendy for Christmas. Impressed by the success of these first bulbs, he replanted and replanted again. As sheep prices plummeted, with the foot and mouth crisis and a general downturn in the farming...
As venues go, the location for the Spring Tide food festival at The Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock, is fairly unbeatable. Ever popular for its family friendly beach, the famous Hive Beach Café and newly opened Seaside Boarding house, a food fair here was a sure fire winner. In its sixth year...
On Saturday 25th April, Dorset’s only Michelin starred restaurant closed its doors. Dorchester’s Sienna Restaurant run by Chef –Patron Russell Brown with Elena Brown front of house opened in 2003, gaining first 2 AA rosettes within just 7 months of opening, then a third in 2007, a place in The...
It’s festival season and with an event almost every weekend, the calendar is busier than ever before but forget Glastonbury, forget Reading and Leeds, in Dorset it’s food festivals that rock our summer. The season kicked off in April with the inaugural Dorset Venison Festival, culminating with Parnham House’s...
Dorset has, in recent times, earned a reputation as a foodie hotspot. With its diverse landscape it yields an abundance of fine produce – fish and shellfish from our shores, meats and game from our hills, woodlands and pastures and specialist crops – watercress, garlic, chillies to name but...
Take part in the Communities Living Sustainably in Dorset (CLS) survey and you could win a £50 voucher to spend at the Real Food Shop, a mobile shop that is teeming with local produce. The survey, open until 6th Feb 2015, can be found at https://www.clsdorset.org.uk/Greener_choices-Survey_2015.aspx and hard copies...
Four green sea turtles at Weymouth Sea Life Adventure Park have been treated to an early Christmas dinner by aquarists this week. Ali, Josie, Gumbo and Sharky are all disabled after being involved in boating accidents and are fitted with weights in their shells to aid buoyancy. Feeding time...
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The fact that globalisation has an impact on people’s lives in the UK is undeniable while the desirability and level of this impact is still very much up for debate. After spending the last few months in Totnes — a small yet increasingly well-known town in Devon, UK —...
Weymouth College - September 14th-15th 2013 10.00am - 5.00 pm. For the finest food and drink in the South West After the success of inaugural Wessex Food Festival, we are excited to be moving to a larger venue for this years event - Weymouth College. Last year over...
