I know I'm not the only one that likes locally produced food. I meet people who tell me they too know of places that sell and make gorgeous pies or delicious meats. I also know not everyone wants to read my opinion on things, especially when they live miles away from the places I mention.
Therefore I'm opening the game up. I would love to hear your reviews of food you too have sampled, markets and farm shops you may frequent and not forgetting your own opinions on the decline in local shops due to supermarket expansion.
So if you are a budding journalist who wants a soapbox to publish your experiences or maybe you just fancy writing for and helping to establish an ezine that discusses and celebrates locally produced foods. Then join the forums and post on the relevant thread. I will then be in touch.
If you thought countryside shows were all about jams, prize pigs and rusty tractors you obviously haven't been to the right shows. Country Agricultural Shows are a great way to meet local producers and independent businesses. Not only that visitors can see first hand some of the cattle and swine that their local farms breed. The Honley Show is an annual event in the village of Honley, West Yorkshire which is just outside Huddersfield.
Recently I've been looking for something special in the chutney world and I have made some interesting discoveries over the past year. One of which is the delightful and interesting Crusty Pie Company's Flaming Hot Chutney.
Do you know when you're really hungry and you smell something cooking and so then you have to have what ever it is that is cooking? Well Crusty Pie Company's pies have that effect only not with the nose but with the eyes.
Ossett is a quiet backwater town in the connorbation of Wakefield and Dewsbury. They have a monthly farmers market organised and supported by Wakefield Council.
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