Local Food Heroes
Farm Shops and Food Producers in Leicestershire
This web-site supports our Local Food Heroes — the farmers and other food producers in Leicester & Leicestershire.
Visit our Blog for recipes, sausage making, curing your own meat, smoking, baking, reviews and comment.
- The Interactive Map which lists all the producers and farm-shops in the County and a few more besides is main navigation feature of this site.
The links on the left will also take you to listings of different types of Leicestershire producers and shops.
New categories have been added including:
Read about the famous Leicestershire foods – Stilton Cheese, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, and Red Leicester Cheese.
If you want to make comments, or suggest someone for listing (free!) please do so.
*Next Markets*
Every Tuesday there's a regular Farmers' Market at Melton Mowbray and Country Markets at Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.
Every Friday there's a regular Farmers' Market at Melton Mowbray. Also on Friday - Country Markets at Blaby, Glenfield, Hinckley, Oakham, and Syston.
On Saturday 27th there are both Farmers' and Country Markets at Blaby.
Market Bosworth has a Farmers' Market on Sunday the 28th.
On Thursday 2nd July there's a Farmers' Market at Market Harborough.
On Saturday 4th July, it's Burbage's Farmers' Market.
On Wednesday 8th it's the turn of Loughborough.
*Next Beer Festival*
From Hinckley and Bosworth Camra and Leicester Camra
Sat 4th July 2009
The Criterion, Millstone Lane, Leicester. Independence Day Festival. Tel 0116 2625418.
Fri 10th - Sat 11th July 2009
The Chandlers Arms, Fenny Lane, Shearsby. 20 Beers.
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Maverick TV, who make 10 Years Younger and How to Look Good Naked are looking for a group of female friends who love to cook and believe that their home cooking is every bit as tasty as that of a professional chef.
We believe that mums are the unsung culinary heroes of the country – and have come up with a new TV show to test it.
We will be staging a light-hearted and fun competition where a good home cook, supported by her posse of friends, competes against a chef. Both the chef and the mums will have to cook a meal for a group of ordinary people. Our diners will taste both meals and say which they like best. We will be asking whether people prefer the fancier food whipped up by the chef or the heartier and plainer dishes cooked up by our mums.
This feel good format has no real losers – and we are sure the chef won’t mind eating a bit of humble pie if he loses! So if you are a group of friends and fancy a bit of cooking fun – please call Ann on 0207 874 6684 or email her on a.walsh@mavericktv.co.uk
Calke Abbey Fine Food Fair will be held on 5th July 2009 between 10.30am and 3pm.
See the National Trust's Calke Abbey Website for further details.
Local Food Heroes is owned and run by Phil Young and is part of Thurlaston Online. The site lists food producers in Leicester & Leicestershire and is funded by the owner. No charge is made to the producers listed for their entry on the site.
