Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2014 | Page 101

FOOD

Fantastic festive feast at Brownrigg
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ooking for true “Field
to Plate” options this
Christmas and beyond,
why not visit Brownriggs’ Farm
Shop, Godshill for the best
selection of meats reared on
their family run farm on the
Island. You’ll be able to “talk
turkey” with Mrs B, and see
a sample of their renowned
free-range bronze or white
turkeys dressed ready for the
oven.
You can order other poultry
choices such as goose, game,
duck, capon style chicken, and
“Royal Roasts”; multiple birds’
boned and rolled into a joint, with a
choice of various stuffing’s. However lots
of people love a red meat choice, which
Brownrigg’s can provide from their own
single suckled herd of slow maturing
Traditional Ruby Red cattle which are
grass fed with very few miles travelled
to your plate, or succulent, tender grass
fed Lamb. Perhaps for the additional
meat choice, you might choose their

home reared free-range pork; talk to the
butcher about a gammon joint or you
might prefer one of their home cooked
hams or salt beef, to give you the chance
of enjoying a bit more family time. Then
there’s Boxing Day brunch – choose from
the myriad of flavours of home-made
sausages, their own dry cured bacon,
free-range eggs and black pudding off the
shop shelf.
There is a wide variety of products in

the spacious farm shop and
the friendly staff will help you
seek out product options for
those looking for local Island
produce, gluten free, dairy free,
vegan, vegetarian, or organic.
Isle of Wight Pies bake in house,
providing game pies, pork
pies, sausage rolls, all made
using Brownrigg meat. You
can experience the delicious
aromas coming from the
kitchen while you shop.
The Farm Shop is open seven
days a week it has its own
butcher onsite who will gladly
help with your choice of cuts
on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
There is a pleasant café area where home
baked cakes and locally roasted coffee
are served while you relax and chat.
Why not visit the farm shop and see
for yourself or go to the website www.
brownriggfarmmeats.co.uk where some
items from the Island family farm can
be purchased and delivered to your door
on line.

The importance of drinking milk

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ow in its 15th year, World School
Milk Day, chosen by the UN Food
and Agriculture Organisation as a
day when the importance of drinking milk
in school would be celebrated throughout
the world, was held on the Island at
Briddlesford Lodge Farm, Wootton.
Year One pupils from Wootton
Community Primary School drank
Briddlesford’s ‘Buttercup’ milk, and
had a bowl of cereal with milk in
Bluebells Cafe. Mrs Chris Griffin
helped the children put fluffy cows
on a large map of the world, on
countries where the Day was being
celebrated, and where children
could not receive milk as easily as
they could. The children then saw
the baby calves, under the guidance
of Richard Griffin.
The event was supported by
the National Farmers Union, and
attended by Andrew Turner, MP,

staff, helpers, and a school Governor,
Trevor Moyce. Mr. Turner was delighted
to attend because MPs throughout the
UK were visiting schools on World School
Milk Day, to demonstrate the importance
of a drink of milk at school in children’s

diets. He was proud and pleased to be
supporting this International event,
organised globally by the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organisation.’
Paul Griffin, farmer and host of the event
at Briddlesford said: “Here at Briddlesford
we have supported this event for
several years, and we were delighted
to welcome children to our farm
to show them how their milk is
produced, letting them see and
touch our Guernsey cows and calves.
Our milk is creamy and delicious,
and we get great pleasure from
seeing them enjoy drinking it.”
Judi Griffin, organiser of the event
at Briddlesford said: “We all know
that milk is a natural food, full
of goodness for healthy growth.
If children get into the habit of
drinking milk at school, they will
enjoy it for the rest of their lives.”

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