NEWS

Christmas is in full swing this week with Christmas cakes and trees on sale and orders now being taken.
Busy market this week with many producers staying until 7pm . Usual opening time (8.30am) for the Christmas festival in Minehead where they will be turning the lights on in the evening but lots going on around the town all day.
As many of you will know that the whole of the parade and avenue will be closed on Friday due to this event as a result they needed to have an emergency service route though the parade so to enable them to do this for this event the market will be on the other side of the parade (opposite Bastins, and Toucan) basically the other side of the flowerbeds!
We look forward to seeing you all as usual on Friday.

WHO'S AT THE MARKET THIS WEEK

BAKERY

OUT OVER CATERING
We bring both sweet and savoury products to the market – cheesy sausage rolls, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, our sausage meat slices, quiche, pies and pasties; scones (plain, cheese and fruit) and all kinds of cakes from tea-bread to traditional coffee cakes, also cookie, tiffin, and flapjacks.

CONFECTIONERY

COCOA'S HANDMADE CHOCOLATE
Here at Cocoa's we use all the best ingredients possible, to make our produce as tasty as it can be! Everything is made by hand so every item is as unique as the last.

DAIRY & EGGS

BATCH FARM CHEESEMAKERS
All of our farmhouse cheddar cheese is made using the milk from our own dairy herd, meaning the milk for our cheese travels minutes rather than days or hours before being turned into our award winning final products.

DEANE BARTON FREE RANGE EGGS
Our eggs are free-range to a high standard - the hens are kept in small numbers and rotated around grassy pens - and are stamped with their own producer-number.

DRINKS

LOADER’S SOMERSET CIDER
A father and son partnership passionate about real cider, cider vinegar and apple juice.

WILD WEST OF EXMOOR
All made at Manor Farm, Wootton Courtenay, with ( lemons excluded, which are organic), hand picked fruit from my pestercide and fertiliser free ( apart from ponies) fields and garden and from the moor. No preservatives, colours etc. Just quality alcohol and fruit.

FISH & SEAFOOD

JONAS FISHMONGERS
Jonas Fishmongers is a family business spanning across 5 generations. Today Steven and Martin are the owners and have grown up learning from their father, David Jonas. We can prepare your fish while you wait and take pre-orders via our Facebook page, dependent on availability. We also can offer fresh, frozen and shell fish to restaurants and pubs.

FRUIT & VEGETABLES

BLUEBERRIES
For a short time, we have a local grower selling their delicious blueberries.

PLOWRIGHT
100% homegrown, seasonal veg from our Organic farm in Over Stowey. We are certified organic by the Soil Association, the UK's leading certifier and sister of the well known organic farming charity.

GOURMET FOOD

THE KIND KITCHEN
Here at The Kind Kitchen we bake Artisan Sourdough Bread. We also make a selection of vegetarian and vegan savouries and cakes. You can find us at the Minehead Farmers Market every Friday.

Where possible, we strive to use local and organic ingredients. All our flour is organic and the spelt flour that we use in our bread and pastries is grown in Somerset and milled at Dunster Water Mill.

STEFANO'S FOOD
Stefano creates seasonal Italian and European dishes using fresh locally grown and reared ingredients from the South West, and he also sources and imports quality Italian products.

MEAT & POULTRY

EVENLADE TRADITIONAL
A traditional breed, our beef is produced exclusively from grass-fed, registered pedigree stock and is a trademarked product. All dry-aged (hung) for a minimum of 21 days, we sell a variety of cuts (steaks, joints, mince etc) subject to availability. All our meat is vacuum packed and fresh where possible but, as a small producer we do not have the numbers of stock to guarantee this. If at all possible we recommend advance ordering and we will do our best to provide the required size and cut: we sell out fast!

LITTLE MEAD MEATS
All our pigs are sourced locally, from farms and small holdings where we can be assured the meat is of the highest quality and the animals have led a stress free life. Everything we sell is produced by ourselves, using traditional butchery methods.

SOMERSET VENISON
We produce farmed red deer venison, fed on an all-grass diet at our family farm near Taunton. Our venison is high in iron, protein and omega 3 oils and low in fat and cholesterol. It is tender and flavoursome, not tough and gamey like some wild venison can be. We do not use any GM or antibiotics.

THE ORIGINAL EXMOOR HAM COMPANY
Set up to give discerning customers a really good selection of hams with the personal touch of having them sliced for you exactly as you wish. From choosing the right joint, and having been boned, we boil to correct temperature with herbs and spices and after cooling we smother the whole gammon with the chosen glaze, which might be marmalade, or even whortleberry jam. We then bake in a hot oven until the glaze caramelises and while cooling drip honey all over so that as the meat firms up it draws the honey in, making it sweet to taste and a tang of burnt orange from the marmalade.

CRAFT

EXMOOR GRAVING
Engraved woodware and photographic engravings on slate, porcelain etc.

HANDMADE CANDLES
Lovely handmade candles, perfect for Christmas gifts.

PLANTS & FLOWERS

FOXHOLLOW NURSERIES
Offer a wide-range of sustainably grown herb plants.