Sustainable Food Fair

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Celebrating the best in local artisan food and produce, from butchers and bakers to local gin makers. This pop-up farmers' market allows you experience taste sensations and then purchase to enjoy at home. With talks and demonstrations throughout the day (including tours of Madingley Hall's medicinal and kitchen gardens), why not begin with a bacon roll on arrival and stay on for the BBQ lunch?

Stalls open and breakfast is served from 8.00 to 11.00am, with a BBQ lunch from 12.00 to 2.00pm. Head home, enthused and replete by 2.30pm.

Exhibitors

• Aldens Specialist Catering Butchers
• The Cambridge Organic Food Company
• Cambridge Sustainable Food
• Cheese+
• Chilford Hall Vineyard
• Coffee Solutions
• Direct Seafoods Colchester
• The Ely Gin Company
• Henham Bees and Trees
• Lord Conrad’s Brewery
• Maria’s Artisan Bakery
• Mossy's Original Yogurt
• nūfood 3D printing
• Radwinter Wild Game Company
• Tea Sanctuary
• The Wicked Cake Company

Vegetables from Barsby Produce will be served as part of the refreshments, and ice cream from the Saffron Ice Cream Company will be available to purchase on the day.

Programme for the day

• 08:00 OPEN
• 08:00 – 10:00 Breakfast
• 09:00 Talk: Cheese+ (Laura Newell)
• 09:15 Tour: Madingley Hall Gardens (Richard Denham)
• 09:45 Talk: Dovetailed nūfood (Dr Vaiva Kalnikaite)
• 10:15 Tour: Madingley Hall Gardens (Richard Denham)
• 10:30 Talk: Chilford Hall Vineyard (Mark Barnes)
• 11:15 Tour: Madingley Hall Gardens (Richard Denham)
• 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
• 13:00 Raffle draw

Raffle tickets will be on sale at the Reception Desk throughout the day, with a fabulous first prize of a sustainable food hamper. All raffle proceeds go to the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.

Or simply drop in on the day any time between 8am and 2.30pm.