Food and Farming - Aylsham Show Food Hall 2011

Food and Farming Come to the Food Hall to taste and buy the very best in local food. This is where we showcase some of the wonderful food produced in the Norfolk countryside.

Amongst the delicious foodstuffs on offer will be apple juice, apple pies, cheese, chilli jelly, chutney, cupcakes, fresh herbs, fresh fruit & vegetables, fruit cakes, fudge, herb infused oils, honey, ice-cream, jams, pork pies, rapeseed oil, sausages, scones, sponge cakes - the list goes on & on…!
The Aylsham Agricultural Show is very proud to offer continuing support for our small local producers, all of whom grow and make delicious and inspiring products. Many of these producers are farmers as well and all of them, through their enterprise and energy, give us the opportunity to celebrate the connection between the landscape around us, the food that we eat and the great farming tradition of this county.

As ever, the Food Hall is extremely grateful to all our generous and loyal sponsors for donating their resources to help highlight the network of small food producers flourishing throughout Norfolk.

Amongst the many other attractions on the Food & Farming area :

Norfolk Young Farmers with their highly individual, customised lawn mowers
A vast Vervaet sugar beet harvester, courtesy of J Riley Harvesters of Attlebridge. Vervaet’s 25 tonne, 6 and 9 row ‘Beeteater’ models are a common sight across the East of England; and sugar beet is one of the most important crops for the county.
Anglia Farmers Limited, the leading agricultural purchasing co-operative in the country, with information for the grown-ups and competitions for the children!
The John Innes Centre, based in Norwich, is an independent, international centre of excellence in plant science and microbiology. Every year they support us and come to the show with an excellent competition based on identifying plants and their uses.

Slow Food Aylsham promoting The Food Taste Adventure –a competition for children to explore and identify different foods

Food & Farming Marquee Sponsors:

Kettle Foods Ltd and Nelson County Potatoes Ltd

“As local food champions, Nelson County Potatoes and KETTLE® Chips are proud to be sponsoring the Food and Farming Marquee this year. Nelson County Potatoes is a bespoke grower group to Kettle Foods Ltd - makers of the famous hand-cooked KETTLE® Chips. Sixteen Norfolk-based growers with generations of experience between them, produce over 60,000 tonnes of potatoes a year, of which a considerable volume goes into making KETTLE® Chips at the Kettle Foods factory in Norwich. Keeping things local is important to both companies, so all of Nelson’s growers are within a small radius of Kettle Foods Ltd, allowing the whole operation from field to bag to happen within Norfolk”.

Come find Nelson County Potatoes in the main marquee to sample some KETTLE® Chips and find out more about us.

Food Hall Sponsors:

Clan Trust
Foodwiz (Instant Diet Control on a Mobile Phone)
Gressingham Foods
Norfolk Farmers Trust
Partridge Electrical Ltd
J B Postle & Son Ltd

Giant Cabbage GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLE COMPETITION
FOOD & FARMING AREA
AYLSHAM SHOW 2011 Monday 29 August

This will be the third year of our hugely popular and successful Grow Your Own Veg competition- the fantastic display of prize vegetables which results is ample proof of the many enthusiastic gardeners from our local schools. It is is one of the most popular sections of the Food & Farming area, drawing in all age groups to view the entries, from grandparents to toddlers. The judge’s comments are eagerly read and the dimensions of all vegetables admired and compared!

We concentrate on giant vegetables – we are lucky enough to be able to use seeds from Medwyn’s of Anglesey who specialise in producing these seeds and are frequent Gold Medallists at the Chelsea Flower Show - as the aim is to introduce children to growing vegetables with a bit of fun. Our thanks also go to Mr Fothergills Seeds, Kentford, Newmarket.

The classes are:

	Firstly, the very popular ‘Longest Bean’ competition: Last year the record went to a bean just over 73 cms long – an incredible increase of 10cms on the 2009 record bean (63 cms long).
	Second, ‘The Giant Onion’ : This is new for 2011 and requires participants to grow the best and biggest onion possible – the winning onion will be the one that weighs heaviest on show day
	Third, ‘The Giant Marrow’ : The record in 2010 weighed over 9 kgs! – lots of love & loads of manure and a 2011 marrow could beat that weight (the children can carve names, patterns, pictures in the skin of the marrow for extra marrow allure –the letters expand as the marrow grows).
	Lastly, ‘A Garden in a Box’. We had some truly inventive and attractive gardens enter this competition last year – it’s the one where the children use all their creative talents. They have to design a garden using 5 (or more) different types of vegetables and/or fruit (cut up, glued together, threaded on string etc)

We promote the competition and distribute the seedling plants through the Aylsham cluster of schools, with Aylsham High as the hub – we are lucky enough to have Duncan Spalding, Headmaster at the High School, as an active member of the Show Council and the Food & Farming Committee.

For further information, please contact:

Ros Corfield mail@ppproducts.co.uk
Clare Buxton clare.buxton@btinternet.com

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