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Localy sourced food market opening Summer 2020

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Look out for our new House Butters in the resultan

Look out for our new House Butters in the resultant - as tasty as they are beautiful. You might find a bright green (parsley, mint, coriander blitzed up with softened, seasoned butter) disc cosying up next to your sourdough, or a right royal purple one (a reinvigorated beetroot rescued from the chiller and dehydrated). The kitchen keeps them up-to-the-minute seasonal so we can’t predict what’s up next but we’re certain it will be delicious. Pictured here is Simon’s fire salt butter, smoky and spicy all in one bite.
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#housebutter #localbusiness #localproduce #teals #eatin

There’s something special about the still silenc

There’s something special about the still silence of the store at the start of the day.
The light comes through the huge glass windows, drawing your eye out to the surrounding countryside, now clad in its rich, seasonal green. Each of us who opens up has their own
little routine: switch on the coffee machine, replenish crisps and biscuits, whack up the volume on the music for a quick start-the-day-right sing-song. But what we all have in common is looking forward to welcoming the first customer through the door.
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#morningroutine #customerservice #britishcountryside #stillness

This is the time to try new season’s goat and sh

This is the time to try new season’s goat and sheep cheeses. They are the freshest and mildest of cheeses, barely matured to capture the richness of the new spring grass. The cheese counter is bursting with new ideas for the best of English cheeses for your cheese board – and we’re excited to help with how best to enjoy them, what to pair with them and how to look after them.
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#britishcheese #newseason #goatcheese #englishcheese

We are very excited to have been informed that we

We are very excited to have been informed that we are one of the finalists in the FOOD Magazine reader awards for best farm shop 💫 this wonderful news, we are all seriously chuffed.
Results will be announced on the 27th June so we will be keeping our fingers our fingers 🤞
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#finalist #foodie #localproduce #proudbusinessowner

The barometer is set fair for the next week and th

The barometer is set fair for the next week and the weather is as welcome to the pollinators as it is to us, ensuring a bumper crop of apples this autumn. Please come and share the bounty of our orchard’s beautiful blossom with a coffee or a picnic!
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#summer #picnic #apple-orchard #timeout #localbusiness

Anyone for Lamb scrumpet? Our menu has an ever-in

Anyone for Lamb scrumpet?
Our menu has an ever-increasing spring-like feel to it. We’re loving this lamb scrumpet: slow-cooked, meltingly tender pulled lamb, pressed, crumbed and briefly deep-fried for perfect crispness. It comes with the new season’s mint sauce made fresh in-house with a full body and a tangy bright flavour, mellowed and sweetened with roast garlic and a touch
of honey.
If you fancy trying it, why don’t you phone a friend you haven’t seen for a while and book a table in the restaurant this weekend? 🍽
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#EnrichedByLocal #springlamb #eatseasonally #localbusiness #colouryourlife

The wild garlic is in full flower now, coming towa

The wild garlic is in full flower now, coming towards the end of its season. There’s a jungle of it around here and we’re making the most of every handful of this foraged bounty: you’ll see it on the menu in hummus, soup and preserved as a delicately flavoured salt.
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#wildgarlic #foragedfood #wildgarlicflowers #wildgarlicrecipes

We’ve lost our hearts to these bonny Geums, who

We’ve lost our hearts to these bonny Geums, who will dance in the flower beds around the store from now right through till autumn. They mark the start of the summer, bright punchy colours that evoke memories the African farmstalls that inspired us to build the store from the start. 🌼
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#geum #summerplants #colour #happyplace #shoplocal

We are looking forward to a sunny bank holiday wee

We are looking forward to a sunny bank holiday weekend and the store is full of delicious local produce.
Pop in to grab your fresh bread, BBQ meat, wine, cheese or fresh fruit and veg, we have had a big delivery of new season asparagus and British tomatoes.
If you would like to eat in the restaurant with us we would recommend booking ahead on the website.
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#localbusiness #localproduce #bankholiday #bbqlovers #shoplocal

Volunteering at Wild Garden + open days and worksh

Volunteering at Wild Garden + open days and workshops 🌱🪴⁠
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Fancy getting your hands on the earth without the responsibility of your own plot? Wild Garden is opening up volunteering slots. It’s a great way to learn more about growing vegetables as well as other benefits that come with working outside as part of a team on a small-scale project. ⁠
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They’re also launching a series of workshops if you’re tempted to establish your own. ⁠
⁠Find out more at www.wildgardenveg.co.uk.⁠
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#gardening #wildgardening #growyourown #workshops

Organic celebration for Wild Garden.⁠ ⁠ We’r

Organic celebration for Wild Garden.⁠
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We’re celebrating our friends at Wild Garden who supply us with leaves and vegetables- they have now been officially certified as an organic garden. In day-to-day practice, this means little change in the garden which has always been grown naturally without the use of chemicals or pesticides. But the Soil Association approval underlines the commitment they have made over decades to grow everything according to the very best guidelines available, ensuring that what they do is good for the long-term sustainable future of the land they farm and the wider ecosystem of which we are all part.⁠
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#soilassociation #organic #sustainable #organicgarden #soil

We recently began supporting Key4life, a brilliant

We recently began supporting Key4life, a brilliant local charity that is reducing youth offending by helping young men in prison or 'at risk' find brighter futures.
One of their most recent cohort spent 3 days with us on work experience, you can follow his journey in last night's Channel 4 documentary 'A very British Job Agency' (link in bio).
Huge congrats to Connor for since finding a permanent role close to home, it was only a matter of time before that smile worked its magic!
Well done too to Eva and the Key4life team for another fantastic success story.
This year we'll be raising funds to help put more young men through the @key4lifeuk key4life programmes. Stay tuned to see how you too can help or get in touch with the team direct @key4lifeuk
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#averybritishjobagency #channel4 #freshstart #makingadifference

Spring and early Summer - Seasons Changing ⁠ ⁠

Spring and early Summer - Seasons Changing ⁠
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Each year, we are surprised by how long it takes for leaves to unfurl on trees. You’d think they’d come in late March, along with those first warm days when tulips start to pop open and you can sit still for a time outside, eyes closed and face pointing to the sun. But they don’t. Neither do they arrive for Easter: those eggs have to be tucked into evergreen hedges and magnolia blossom cups for a hunt. But the first, pale, lime-coloured leaves are worth the wait. Tiny and fragile, they bring so much promise with them. Soon our world will be green again, for long enough to sustain us through the next grey and muddy winter. We watch and wait and wonder.⁠
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#march #green #warmerdays #greenerfuture #april #may

Seggiano Colomba Cake. Once you’ve tried some o

Seggiano Colomba Cake. Once you’ve tried some of Seggiano’s products, it’s hard to not to return to them again and again. Handmade, small-batch, real food from Italy, everything they do tastes as it comes straight from a nana’s kitchen. So it’s their Colomba cake, traditionally baked at Easter in Italy, you may want to sit down with over a cuppa. It’s a light, naturally leavened (ie sourdough), vanilla cake studded with candied orange peel, sweetened with honey and glazed with almonds and nuts, and shaped like a dove, for peace. Of which the world could do with a lot more. #cake #eastercake #seggiano #colombacake #eastertreats #italian

Chocolate Eggs for Easter?⁠ 🐰⁠ ⁠ If you n

Chocolate Eggs for Easter?⁠ 🐰⁠
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If you need an excuse to eat chocolate (we don’t, but it takes all sorts), Easter is about as good as you’ll get. This year, it’s all about mini eggs. The irrepressible Tony is fighting slavery in chocolate production with mini eggs in their trademark, brightly coloured packaging, and joyful egg boxes filled with a rainbow-clad array. Montezumas have got witty with Plucky and Clucky Choc Kicks and Three Chicklaters (stop! Enough cuteness already!). Cocoa Loco is seriously plastic-free with cardboard Bunny Heads packed with, yes, mini eggs. Come and explore them and all the other adorable treats at our ever-increasingly large chocolate tables.⁠
#chocolate #eastereggs #eastertreats #eggs

Lamb with Nathan⁠ ⁠@tealsbutcher ⁠ Easter m

Lamb with Nathan⁠ ⁠@tealsbutcher
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Easter might mean lamb 🐑 - but it doesn’t have to be traditional. Don’t get us wrong, we love a classic roast and there are few scenes that evoke an Easter celebration more than a beautiful leg of lamb on a laden table. But if you fancy something different this year, Nathan in the butchery is really up for getting involved. He could butterfly a leg for you, for the barbecue, to serve with a fragrant salsa verde (see below for recipe), or you could go for more or a slow-roast shwarma style shoulder, meltingly tender and juicy and perfect to stuff into flatbread with houmous and pickles (Bottlebrush ferments in the chiller would be a great option to cut through the richness of the meat, here).⁠
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Whatever you go for, it will come from Bagnell Farm, which supplies us with the highest quality Jacob sheep, lovingly reared on local hills and butchered to order, so please get your order in as soon as possible.⁠
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Salsa Verde⁠
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Small Bunch parsley or Wild Garlic ⁠
Small bunch mint⁠
Tin of anchovies in oil⁠
1 tbs red wine vinegar⁠
1 garlic clove, minced⁠
1 tsp dijon mustard⁠
2 tbsp capers⁠
3 tbsp extra virgin oil⁠
1 lemon (optional)⁠
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Pulse everything together apart from the oil in a processor till you have a roughly textured paste. Loosen with the oil until you have a soft, spoonable consistency. Taste and adjust for seasoning or piquancy - you may like to add a squeeze of lemon juice to add tartness. ⁠
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#lamb #pastoral #salsaverde #wildgarlic #easter #tealsbutcher

Scavengers Dog Collars.⁠ ⁠ We love this one! S

Scavengers Dog Collars.⁠
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We love this one! Scavenger’s mission is to rescue and repurpose ‘crag swag’: climbing gear and equipment that is left to languish (or worse, get chucked) once it's past its best. They collect old ropes, hooks, and carabiners from climbing centres across the UK and turn them into really great, bright, jolly, useful, and durable things such as dog collars, toys, and super-strong leads. What a great idea. We’ve started stocking them.⁠
#dogcollar #dogs #durable #strongcollar #scavengers

Our chiller (next to the butchery) is keeping an a

Our chiller (next to the butchery) is keeping an array of ferments live and fresh that your tummy will love. Open a jar of Bottlebrush Ferments and the lid literally pops with life. These big jars of sauerkraut and kimchi harness the power of wild fermentation to create live, raw, Lacto-fermented vegetables that will have your bellies flat and your gut humming with good bacteria. Sour, hot, and generally lip-smacking, they pack a punch on the flavour register: great with leftovers, alongside eggs any which way, or jammed into sandwiches. We’ve been busted eating them straight from the jar, too. #guthealth #ferments #lactofermented #kimchi #health

New-season Asparagus. ⁠ There are few occasions

New-season Asparagus. ⁠
There are few occasions at home where you think of having a starter. But to us, the arrival of local asparagus is one. While you can get hold of it now at most times of the year, flown in from somewhere in the world, it bears little resemblance in flavour or texture to the vegetable of immense beauty and delicate flavour that it is when in season locally. Nothing quite matches the silky tenderness of an asparagus stalk, recently cut, steamed and drenched in top-notch butter. It’s the only way to truly honour it. (By the way, try the Hollismead organic salted butter in the chiller – they’re a bit more than your normal pat, so save them for moments when they can star. But when that moment comes, pooling over asparagus, you’ll know it. It’s now.)⁠
#asparagus #springvegetables #spring #saltedbutter #bestinstore

What's buzzing at Teals?⁠ ⁠ BEES! Super excite

What's buzzing at Teals?⁠
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BEES! Super excited to announce we have installed four bee hives on site here at Teals. This is essential progress and always been a dream. The way bees work together to make honey is truly fascinating.. plus many other advantages such as pollination, making of glorious honey and also keeping the bee population thriving which is so critical.⁠
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#bees #honey #savethebees #beekeeping #eatlocal