Producers

Some producers getting ready to join in last year's ‘Taste’ festival – Sandra Stone (Great Western Brewery), Thornbury Castle, Mike Perry (Perry & Son Craft Butchers), Laura Geraci (Pomodoro Mediterranean Cookery), (Val Harding, Local Food Officer),

South Gloucestershire has an abundance of excellent food producers and farmers and you can find out who they are, where they are, what they produce and how to buy from them by looking in the South Gloucestershire Local Food & Drink Directory found on the ‘Directory’ page (follow the link on the left of this page) - or on the council's own website here.

Local food has been defined as:

“Food produced in or around South Gloucestershire or at the nearest convenient centre of production. Manufactured foods will be classed as local if one of the main ingredients is produced in or around South Gloucestershire or at the nearest convenient centre of production.”

Promoting local food aims to “build more locally based, self-reliant food economies in which sustainable food production, processing and distribution is done for the benefit of people living in a particular place.”

Perry & Son, Craft Butchers

One of the few craft butchers in South Gloucestershire, this butchery can be found on Greenhill Parade, Alveston.  Mike Perry gave 4 demonstrations during the festival on how to cut up and prepare various meat joins - beef, pork and lamb.  They source all their meat from within a  30-mile radius.

Mike Perry's stall at one of the Thornbury Food Fairs.