Guide launched for locally produced food

A GUIDE to locally produced food in Marlow is to be launched

next month.

Entitled Food On Our Doorstep, or FOOD, the guide covers

producers within a ten-mile radius of High Wycombe. The aim of the project was to produce a

comprehensive listing of local producers at no charge to the businesses included

in the guide itself.

It was compiled by

volunteers from Transition Town High Wycombe and Wycombe Friends of the Earth

with funding from the Chilterns Conservation Board Sustainable Development Fund

and the Bucks County Council Community Leaders’ fund.

The FOOD guide is available to view online now at www.food-on-our-doorstep.org.uk.

It will be launched in the form of a free 36-page booklet during the Apple Day

event to be held at Hughenden Manor near High Wycombe on October 10. It will be

available in early October from the Marlow Local Information Office and a

number of the businesses listed in the guide itself.

Marlow local food producers included in the guide include Rebellion

Beer Co. based at Marlow Bottom and Emmetts Farm Shop at Wilton Farm, Marlow

Road, Little Marlow. Emmetts’ offers home-grown vegetables, local free-range

eggs, traditional locally-baked fresh bread, cheese, rare breed meat, and much

more.

Also at Wilton Farm and included in the FOOD guide is Phil Bowditch, the

butcher and fishmonger with its own smokehouse. Bowditch’s sells pork and lamb

from Woods of Watlington, produces its own sausages and bacon, including

home-smoked. Their smokehouse is also used for salmon, plus they have a wide

selection of fresh fish and shellfish from Devon. For Marlow-made jams,

marmalades and pies the guide suggest the Town Farm Shop at Bisham Village.

A spokesman for the FOOD guide project said: “Buying local

food allows you to know more about where and how food is produced. Consumers

can make better informed choices that can include factors such as the animal

welfare and environmental standards being used.

“Buying local food enhances the local economy whilst cutting

down on food miles. Your purchasing decisions will now start to reverse the

decline in local food production to prepare us for a time when we will need to

be more reliant upon local abundance. In short: everyone wins.”