Just how fortunate are we? We live in a county reknown for its food producers, so it is not surprising that the Wells Food Festival brings together artisan producers with a wonderful array of goodies.
We bought a bottle of Pear and Apple Juice pressed from fruit harvested from the Bishop's Palace from this year's harvest, a lovely Turk's Turban pumpkin to add to my collection for feasting on in the coming months, a colourful chilli plant call Prairie Fire, a pot with two seedlings of Curry leaf plant, a couple of cheeses and some large Toulouse sausages from The Thoroughly Wild Meat Company.
Although we buy Goat's Cheese direct from Sarah at Wookey Farm, or Sheep's cheese from the market, it is always nice to see what other local producers have on offer.
We enjoyed chatting at the Pennard stand and have had an invitation to visit, we came away with a lovely nutty golden Pennard Red Goats Cheese. I hadn't noticed at the time, but they make a hard buffalo cheese, one not to miss on our visit.
From White Lake Cheese, we brought back a Katherine all in its little salt glaze pot to fit, at £5 together a bargain!
This year we arrived early, and was able to walk around and chat to producers, but just before lunch we diverted into the Palace gardens, and bought a drink from the café and went to sit within the garden itself and enjoyed that with some pastries we had also bought from a stall.
All in all a very pleasant morning.
Oh that looks a most appetising array Noelle. I love the Turks' Turban pumpkin. I always wanted to grow them at the allotment but sadly never did 🥲
ReplyDeleteThank you Anna. I used to grow them on my allotment and they are both decorative and very tasty, and I am always on the look out for them from local growers.
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