The next stage of our new project....

Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 02:17PM

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join us for fruit tree planting & filling raised beds for our Little Garden
project on sun 30th jan

For more information or to let us know you are coming please call 01285 640441

New years resolution to eat local and healthy?

Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 06:27PM

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If its your new years resolution to eat local food and give your body the freshest least contaminated food you can find, come shopping here! Lots of fab seasonal veggies straight from the ground around the shop, leeks, carrots, celeriac, onions, parsnips, potatoes, swede, cabbages, kales when it s not too frozen and our famous salad packs from the tunnels. Then theres all the meat from the farm, much on special offer in january from the freezer.

lunch outings.......

Monday, November 15, 2010 at 06:09PM

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Veg news

Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 09:26AM

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The two different bags mix well, oriental brassicas include mizuna, pak choi, tah tsoi, japanese mustard, and the mixed leaves a selection of rocket, landcress, corn salad, baby spinach. we mix some of each all together in the cafe giving us a 7 or 8 leaf salad.

The Organic Farm Shop (Not for profit) Film Club

Friday, September 24, 2010 at 06:15PM

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A few spaces left at the organic farm shop - saturday nights onceish a month except in high summer. all sorts of films from all over the world. not general releases.
email hilary@theorganicfarmshop.co.uk for next 5 films. Cost £30 per year, 11 films. (£15 from now till christmas)
recommences september 25th 2010 after summer break
Members can bring a guest if they like (donation system)

Indian Folk Music Fund Raising Evening

Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 06:15PM

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Vishalakshi Roy and friends Saturday 17th July 2010 6.30pm to 9.30pm

Simple Indian vegetarian thali followed by concert

In aid of The Earth Trust in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu which hilary and will visited this spring

very well run ngo, we would love to help them so do come and support this event.
Tickets £12 each Advance booking only 01285 640441

Latest Awards

Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 06:15PM

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Our Dancys Fancy cheese has won a silver medal at the british cheese awards this year.
Congratulations go to our lovely shorthorn dairy cows, Mark, John and Ken who look after
them and Clive who made the cheese!!!

The Organic Farm Shop has won a silver award and the Cafe a Bronze award at
Taste of the West Awards this autumn

We have just been shortlisted (one of 4) for Country Life's Rural Enterprise Award 2009
for the way we use the land here.
Many thanks to whoever nominated us in the first place!!

‘Sustainable Cirencester?’
“Our Future Cirencester”
You are invited to attend a morning seminar on Saturday 21st November 10.30-12.30
at The Organic Farm Shop
To consider our response to Climate Change and the potential options and actions for making Cirencester more sustainable, particularly in Energy, Transport and Food.
Contributors include:
Helen Royall – Stroud Transition Towns
Kaye Welfare – Severn Wye Energy Agency
Andrew Lichnowski – Our Future Cirencester
Places limited, optional pre-booked soup lunch @ £4.50

To book please e-mail SustainCiren@tiscali.co.uk or contact the Organic Farm Shop 01285 640441

Courses on the Farm

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 12:16PM

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This year we are offering a great variety of courses on the farm, including cheesemaking, grow your own organic veg, breadmaking, garden willow structures, sharing the secrets of our famous cafe cakes, nutritional advice days and much more.
see courses for all details and email us or come in to the shop to book.

Welcome to holly and david this june for our BREADMAKING and TAPAS COURSES Manna from Devon (www.mannafromdevon.com) is a small cookery school in beautiful South Devon, just over the river from Dartmouth. They run hands-on cooking courses using the fabulous local produce in the area. Bread, fish, Mediterranean cooking and family days are amongst their most popular days.

The school is run by Holly and David Jones – both enthusiastic and experienced teachers with a passion for sharing their knowledge. They are now on the road and coming to the Organic Farm Shop to teach 2 hands-on courses at the end of June.

Some of you may remember Holly who cooked in the café in its early years before heading off on a yacht race and then upping sticks to Devon. Her time at the Organic Farm Shop is still inspiring her – “we now have 12 rescue chickens at the end of the garden; a fruit, vegetable and herb garden as a work in progress and a desire to pass on our passion for cooking and local food to our students”

Sat 27th June. A Real Bread Workshop where you will learn the basics of making dough (using some of Abbey Home Farm’s own flour) and produce a variety of loaves to take home with you.

“At Manna from Devon we make bread as it should be made; with first class ingredients, lots of time and heaps of respect and if you join one of our breadmaking classes you'll get to grips (literally!) with the whole process of making bread.”

Run by David, a passionate bread maker, these one day workshops focus on gaining an understanding of three basic doughs and the huge variety of breads that these doughs allow you to make. Working with organic, stoneground flours we will make white, olive oil and wholemeal doughs, discussing ingredients, nutrition, flavour development, fermentation and every other aspect of breadmaking along the way. Practice shaping loaves, rolls, flatbreads and baguettes and go home with a variety of loaves.

Sun 28th June. Holly will be teaching one of Manna from Devon’s most popular courses – Tapas. Tapas are unlimited by size, ingredient or fixed sequence within a meal; they present a wealth of choice, colour, aroma and uninhibited experimentation - truly a diner's delight.
Although quintessentially Spanish, Tapas are so well-suited to today's style of casual eating that they have caught the popular imagination. A selection of Tapas is ideal for an interesting informal meal, and they are wonderful fare for a party, buffet, picnic or barbecue. Most can be made quickly and easily, a great many can be made in advance and served at room temperature while others can be partly prepared and then finished at the last minute before serving.

We will be using the best available seasonal meat and vegetables from the farm, vegetable garden and the Organic Farm Shop’s suppliers.

Both courses include lunch, recipes and aprons. All you need to do is book your place, turn up in comfortable covered shoes and clothes you are happy to cook in and then enjoy your day.

Baby news!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 12:17PM

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Baby News! - the new youngest potential member of staff..........
Bex and Robin had a baby boy on wednesday 11th feb, NED, sister to Lily.
Mum and baby are well, and thank everyone so much for their good wishes and cards.
Ned will be in v. soon to help Bex do the ordering and meet everyone.

We Are Proud Award Winners of a Nation Wide Award

Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 12:17PM

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NEWS RELEASE: THE ORGANIC FARM SHOP WINS ENVIRONMENTAL FARM SHOP TITLE

The Organic Farm Shop in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, has scooped the Environmental retailer of the year award from the National Farmers’ Retail & Markets’ Association (FARMA). The decision was announced at the FARMA national conference on 11 November 2008.

The FARMA judges considered that the Organic Farm Shop was ‘going that extra mile to assure a positive future for our planet’ and set the goal post high for other farm retailers. The farm is certified by the Soil Association, producing its own soft fruit, vegetables, milk, cream, yoghurt, cheese, eggs, lamb, beef, pork and chicken. The on-site café works with whatever is in season on the farm to produce a range of homemade vegetarian meals (except on Sundays!) – everything is cooked on site - only the locally-made bread is bought in.

Business owner Hilary Chester-Master, places a huge emphasis on conservation and sustainability, from farming techniques to the shop design. The farm shop building and all the counters are made from the farm’s own green oak, and the café’s tables and chairs from reclaimed wood. No new plastic carrier bags are used, and the shop has been selling fair-trade jute bags at cost price for the past nine years – long before the supermarkets even considered the idea. In fact, recycling is the order of the day, with customer drop-off points in the car park, and just one bucket per day of raw food waste from the shop - which naturally ends up on the compost heap.

Visitors come from around the globe to see this model of environmental self-sufficiency. The farmshop and cafe has its own bore hole, solar panels and wood chip boiler which provide enough heating and hot water for the whole building, and there are plans to install a large wind turbine on site to take the farm ‘off grid’. Hilary and Will regularly host educational visits, talks, and Soil Association masterclasses, (but the highlight of the year) and have organised for the last three years the Ragged Hedge Fair which attracted up to 4,000 people to a weekend of simple living. The entire event, including four cafes, three stages, an ecoforum and site lighting, is powered by wind and solar energy alone.

Nigel Chandler, farm shop manager at Garsons in Surrey, and one of this year’s judges, commented, ‘Many farm shops are working hard to improve their environmental credentials; recycling waste, sourcing local and seasonal food, using sustainable packaging and so on. However, The Organic farm shop stands out as a business model, with a concern for the planet at its heart.‘

The FARMA awards are peer-assessed by other farm retailers, including previous award winners. An independent mystery shopper report is also available to the judges.

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