News from your Markets: Spring 2010
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 | News from TVFMC Issue 7: Spring 2010 | ||
| In This Issue Special Events in 2010 What to Buy this Spring New Members You Tell Us! | Dear Subscriber Wake up your tastebuds this Spring with new season’s vegetables and meat cuts. Welcome to the Spring edition of News from your Markets, the newsletter from Thames Valley Farmers' Market co-operative that brings you all the news about local food.  Thames Valley Farmers' Markets are now on Twitter - follow us for regular market and special event reminders. |
 Don't forget Mother's Day this Sunday 14th March - we have plenty of tempting gifts and treats at our markets. Check out the markets attended by our bakers and chocolate makers on our website. | |
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| Special Events in 2010 | |
 Windsor: 6th MarchAntony Worrall Thompson joined us at Windsor on 6th March to celebrate the market’s fifth birthday. Pictured is Antony with Councillor Colin Rayner, local farmer and chair of the Windsor & Eton Town Partnership, who support the market. | Chipping Norton: 20th March Make a date with local food hero Nick Pullen from Wild Thyme restaurant who is barbequing at Chipping Norton Farmers' Market on 20th March to celebrate the market’s fifth birthday  Blossom Day at Cross Lanes Fruit Farm, Mapledurham will be held in May to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease Association. Check the Cross Lanes website for details of date and time. |
| Check http://www.tvfm.org.uk/ for the latest information and our Birthday Markets in 2010. | |
| What to Buy this Spring | |
Put Spring on your plate with the delicious range of fresh vegetables, meat, bakery and deli products from Farmers' Markets.  What better way to celebrate the Spring Equinox on 20th and 21st March and Easter weekend 2nd to 5th April than a visit to your local Farmers' Market to buy all the ingredients for a roast dinner with the family, Simnel cakes, hot cross buns, Easter chocolates and new seasons’ vegetables.Meat... It’s Bacon Connoisseurs’ Week from 21st – 28th March, so why not Bring Home the Bacon from our markets in Ascot, Beaconsfield, Hungerford, Newbury during this week. Crispy crunchy rashers are perfect with eggs for breakfast, or in crusty bread for lunchtime sandwich, and wrapped around succulent chicken for dinner. Bacon makes a meal at any time of day. Spring lamb will be available from several producers who have been lambing throughout the winter ready to bring tender meat to markets for your delight. Locate your favourite meat seller Vegetables... At last the purple sprouting broccoli is in and full of flavour. To make the most of them just steam the florets for a few minutes or throw them into a stir-fry for 2 – 3 minutes. Spinach, leeks and Savoy cabbages have survived the snows and frosts ready for you to enjoy. Look out for the first English asparagus from 23 April – St George’s Day – which is traditionally the first day to harvest these fabulously juicy green spears. Check our website to see which markets our vegetable growers attend. Baked goods and chocolate...  Easter is of course a time for chocolate as gifts and eggs. All our cake makers and bakers take this opportunity to produce the most gorgeous cupcakes, Simnel cakes and special Easter gifts. Ilze’s Chocolat has chocoholics spoilt for choice as they select their favourite sweets and bars or make up a gift box for friends. Check out Pippin Doughnuts stalls for a brand new Easter product – half doughnut, half hot cross bun – it’s bound to be irresistible! The Old Farmhouse Bakery among others will have a good range of deliciously gooey buns and cakes. Contact cake makers and bakers early if you want to order a special gift or birthday cake. Check our website to find out which markets they attend. Fish... Sea-fish in season from March/April include: hake, cod, Dover and Lemon sole. Look out for scallops, crab, prawns and mussels on the Selsey Seafish stall delivered directly to our markets from the boats so all the fish is glistening fresh. Brookleas Fish Farm has all sizes of rainbow trout fresh and smoked just ready for delicious meals. You may find smoked eel and American crayfish too. Check which markets have fish stalls Plants...  Colourful displays of pots of flowers and herbs cheer up the dullest days. Come to your local farmers’ market for the brightest pots of spring flowers.Check our plants page to find out which markets are attended by APS Plants, Green and Gorgeous, Greenspires, UPS Plants, The Herb Garden, Ascott Gardens and Heath House Nurseries. | |
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| You tell us! |
| You tell us! If you have a favourite recipe made with produce from the markets, please tell us and we’ll publish it in News from the Markets. We would like to make sure your shopping experience is the best, so please tell us your views on the markets, produce and stall-holders. Email your recipes, comments and suggestions to: info@tvfm.org.uk |
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