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Category: Dorset Food & Drink

Every salad should contain a wild harvest …

...and foragable flowers, buds and leaves make gorgeous tissanes - and will always perk up your spice mixes, says expert Carl Mintern. As we move...

New ‘Vine of the times’ award celebrates the minority makers in a biased industry

Hannah Wilkins of Vineyards in Sherborne is championing change in the wine industry, creating a ‘blanc slate’ with an exciting wine competition. Like many industries,...

It’s all about the taste

Great Taste is the world’s largest, most trusted food and drink accreditation scheme - and its home is right here in Gillingham. Long time...

The 2022 Love Local Trust Local Awards

The Love Local, Trust Local is back for its third season, and entries opened for the 2022 food producer awards on the 1st of...

Meet your local: Sprout & Flower, Mere

Rachael Rowe visited Sprout & Flower, a beautiful flowermonger/greengrocer /deli (with ‘the best coffee for miles’) in Mere, and chatted to owner Sarah Collins. There’s...

Twice-baked perfect biscotti

For those days when you want something sweet with your coffee, but you don’t quite want a bigslice of cake, these little biscotti are...

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Her Majesty the Queen and her love for racehorses

Lucy Procter looks back at The Queen’s lifelong love of horseracing, and her success in the breeding yard https://youtu.be/HZ5fkUCwv9I In September the Thoroughbred racing and breeding...

The Dorset Cursus: the biggest Neolithic monument in Britain

Exploring Britain’s largest Neolithic monument, stretching across six miles of Cranborne Chase, with Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy Built around 3,300 BC – predating Stonehenge by...