Olives may not come from Dorset, but the staff and products from Olives et Al most certainly do. The company, set up by Giles and Annie Henschel in 1992, still makes its marinated olives using the artisan recipes collected on their year-long motorcycle journey around the Mediterranean.

“Little did we know 15 years ago that the recipes we collected on scraps of paper would win the country’s top food awards,” says Giles, whose company has just brought five Great Taste Awards, including the coveted three stars for Very Deli Tomato Stuffed Olives, back to Sturminster Newton. Olives et Al also took gold in Taste of the West for its Harissa Almonds. Call in at the well stocked delicatessen or phone 01258 474300.

website : http://www.olivesetal.co.uk
       
     
     
    Barford Farmhouse Ice Cream
When Chris and Wendy Pope offered to provide ice cream for Screen Bites 2006, they didn’t know what they were letting themselves in for. Not just our younger audiences, but everyone loved the deliciously different ice creams that they make at Barford Farm, Cowgrove on the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy estate.
This year they have made a special Screen Bites ice cream for your to enjoy - what’s a night at the cinema without an ice cream! Screen Bites - The Ice Cream uses local apples and honey, and milk and cream from the Pope’s own Holstein herd. They regularly make a dozen flavours of ice cream, with four sorbets too.

Find out more by phoning 01258 857969
website : www.barford-icecream.co.uk
Enjoy.
     
    Bramble and Sage
Bramble and Sage, the new farm shop at Sutton Montis on the Dorset-Somerset border, is known as The Deli on the Farm. Opened in June by Jane and Graham Harvey, the shop and restaurant carries a large selection of West Country cheeses, fruit, vegetables, biscuits, jams, preserves, drinks, ready-to-cook gourmet meals and meat from Home Farm. Customers can also tuck into a cream tea, ALL (except the sugar) sourced in the west of England – home-made scones, jam from locally-grown fruit, clotted cream that started its life on the surrounding rolling hills and tea grown near Truro. Jane and Graham, who met through tennis, come from farming families. Bramble and Sage is open seven days a week.
     
    Bride Valley Farm Shop
Bride Valley Farm Shop, in the picturesque village of Abbotsbury, specialises in traditionally reared meat, poultry and eggs, all locally produced and affordably priced. The beef is all from John and Patricia Barker’s pure-bred Longhorn herd at Longlands Farm at nearby Littlebredy, grazing on chalk downland which is specially managed for conservation without the use of chemical fertilisers or herbicides. The pork and lamb is supplied by the neighbouring Longbredy farm. The shop also sells pates, pies and sausages, crams, cheeses, chutney, honey and other goodies, all from local producers.

Phone 01305 871235
website : www.dorsetlonghorn.co.uk
     
    Bridport Gourmet Pies
Bridport Gourmet Pies is a family-run business making more than 50 products. Using regional ingredients such as Dorset Blue Vinny, award-winning Denhay bacon, west country beef and local fruit and vegetables, Bridport Gourmet Pies makes high quality, delicious tasting pies, pork pies, pasties and sausage rolls. They include cold cut pork pies, hot Homity pies, Fidget pies and original pies that are created using traditional recipes as well as innovative suggestions by the staff. Martin and his wife Janet started the company in April 2000..
     
    Chococo
Andy and Claire Burnet started Chococo in Swanage in December 2002, and have been winning awards for their hand-made chocolates ever since. Claire and Andy are passionate about fine chocolate, purity, provenance and freshness, using local and Fairtrade ingredients whenever possible. This year they took two Great Taste Award gold stars for Pure Kakawa Dark Chocolate Truffles and this company is the Dorset Food Awards Food Producer of the Year.
Chococo is carbon-neutral, working to reduce energy usage, recycling and encourage customers to recycle by offering discounts for re-filled cardboard boxes, avoiding plastic packaging and encouraging their staff to walk or cycle to work. All that, an an unforgettable taste, coming to Screen Bites for the first time this year.

Phone 01929 421777.
     
 
  Clipper Teas
Clipper was founded in Beaminster in 1984 and is is now one of this country’s leading suppliers of organic and Fairtrade beverages. Clipper, the first tea company in the world to be awarded the Fairtrade mark, in 1994, has always been passionate about introducing new teas and natural flavours without compromising the producers or the planet. Although the company’s products are found in most supermarkets, Clipper maintains direct contact with independent retailers through a unique retailer club. Clipper has supported Screenbites since its beginning, and teas, coffees, infusions and chocolate will be available at all Screen Bites evenings.

website : www.clipper-teas.com
     
    Cranborne Village Stores
Cranborne Stores was among the one per cent of entrants in the 2007 Great Taste Awards to win three gold stars, for its smoked rare-breed back bacon from Cranborne Farms. The in-store butchery provides a large selection of delicious rare breed meats, including home made sausages (free from all artificial additives and preservatives) and own-cured bacon. Estate game, from venison to pheasant, is also available in season. The delicatessen offers mouth-watering cheeses, home-baked pies, sumptuous terrines, cold meats and antipasti. The Stores is open seven days a week.

Phone 01725 517210.
website : www.cranbornestores.co.uk
     
    Creed-Castle Cider
Malcolm and Sylvia Creed-Castle will be bringing the cider, honey and preserves – and hopefully pumpkins – that they make and grow at Crabbs Bluntshay Farm at Whitchurch Canonicorum. The cider, made in the traditional way, is a popular attraction at Bridport Farmers Market, where Sylvia also sells her preserves and honey.
     
    Denhay Farms
Denhay produces some of the country’s best bacon, sausages and cheese. The mild climate of the Marshwood Vale and the proximity to the sea, with an average rainfall of 36 inches and heavy clay soil create ideal grass and maize growing conditions for winter feeding for the five herds. The muck from the cows is returned to the arable land - farmers don't like waste!
Only milk from the Denhay herds is used to make West Country Farmhouse Cheddar.
“We are passionate about the quality and consistency of our products and this quality has been recognised with all the UK’s top food awards,” says George Streatfeild, whose family has farmed in the Marshwood Vale for generations.

website : www.denhay.co.uk
     
    The Dorset Blueberry Company
David Trehane of the Dorset Blueberry Company, opened Littlemoors Farm and Coffee Shop in the summer at Hampreston, off the B3073. “We are introducing customers to a range of local products which we have been passionate about for years," he says. David sources the finest local produce for the shop. An on-site bakery makes a range of blueberry cookies, pies, flapjacks, muffins, Dorset apple cake, brownies and sponges. Find local beef, Dorset cheeses, organic vegetables and many of the area’s leading food and drinks products – as well as blueberries, and grown in nearby plantations.

website : www.dorset-blueberry.com
     
    Dorset Cereals
Dorset Cereals, one of the big food success stories of the South West, is now the second biggest muesli brand in the UK, producing mueslis, porridges, naturally light flakes and chunky slices. In March this year Dorset Cereals, with help from Screen Bites, developed the Edible Playground website www.edibleplaygrounds.co.uk. To inspire schools to develop vegetable plots, Dorset Cereals joined forces with Dorset garden designer Nick Williams-Ellis to produce an Edible Playground courtyard garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It won Gold and Best Courtyard Garden. In July there was a second Gold and Best Show Garden for Dorset Cereals Edible Playground at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. More than 320,000 people visited the gardens, featured widely in national and local media promoting the Edible Playgrounds' message to children, parents and teachers.
Dorset Cereals wants the Edible Playground project to reach schools across the UK. The company has joined forces with the RHS to help 100 schools establish a vegetable plot by supplying equipment, plants and seeds. Each school will be supported for a minimum of three years and the aim is to eventually encourage thousands of schools to establish an Edible Playground in their own grounds.

Phone 01305 751000
website : www.dorsetcereals.co.uk
     
    Dorset Blue Cheese
The ancient and traditional Dorset Blue Vinny cheese was revived by Mike Davies at Woodbridge Farm, Stock Gaylard, in 1984. Six years ago his daughter Emily began using the famous cheese in a range of Dorset Blue Cheese and Soup Company soups. She has won gold in the 2007 Great Taste Awards Award for her Pea ‘n’ Blue soup, chilled gazpacho and the new Spiced Tomato Chutney.

Phone 01963 23133.
website : www.dorsetblue.com
     
    Enford Farm
Enford Farm on the A357 near Durweston, sells organic beef and lamb from the farm on Mondays and Tuesdays, and at local markets. Simon and June Warburton run a suckler herd of Saler or Saler-cross cows and a flock of mule and Charollais cross sheep on 200 acres of pastureland. They converted to organic in 2000. “We believe that the beef should be hung for a minimum of three weeks before being cut to allow for a mature flavour and tenderness. This means our 100% beef burgers stand alone on the quality of the meat. We are now producing gluten-free beef and tomato sausages as well as gluten-free lamb sausages.” says June.

Phone 01258 455117.
     
    Fivepenny Farm
Fivepenny Farm is a low-impact, sustainable smallholding where Jyoti Fernandez and her husband Dai Saltmarsh, with friends Oliver and Kerry Goolden, grow organic fruit and vegetables. They specialise in traditional and heritage varieties including more than 40 different tomatoes, selling their seasonal produce in Bridport market. They putting the finishing touches to a timber-framed, thatched barn with solar and wind power, which will provide a local food centre for a co-operative of mainly organic farmers and producers. Regular stall at Bridport market.
     
    Fudges
Fudges Dorset Village Bakery combines traditional and often local ingredients with the latest production technology. The business, based at Stalbridge, bakes a wide variety of savoury and sweet biscuits and luxury cakes. Award-winning products this year include Flapjacks (Taste of the West gold), Spelt Flatbread, White Chocolate and Cranberry Biscuits, Butter Stollen (TOW silver) and Walnut Wafers, (Great Taste Awards, two gold stars) and Jalapeno Wafers and Biscuits for Cheese (TOW silver and GT gold star).
Try new and favourite Fudges products at all Screen Bites evenings.

website : www.fudges.co.uk
     
    Goldy's Farm Shops
There are now two Goldy’s Farm Shops, at West Holme near Wareham and Bere Farm, Lytchett Matravers. Goldy’s 2 recently opened in converted barns at an organic farm. The new shops has a butchery, bakery and kitchen. Both shops stock a wide range of produce from game to local cheeses, home-made jams, preserves and locally-grown fruit and vegetables. Proprietor Jenny Goldsack says: “If you are concerned about the nutritional value of what you are eating and care about food miles, come and buy your food where we are working to make local, high-quality food the norm.” Goldy’s farm shops are open seven days a week.

Phone 01929 556777 or 01202 625777
website : www.goldys.co.uk
     
    The Green House
Eat Well – Live Lightly – Love Life The Green House is an organic food emporium and home delivery service with a particular bias towards fresh local produce. “At The Green House we aim to bring local, seasonal and organic food to the widest possible audience and to show that shopping should benefit the community and ultimately be a pleasurable experience,” says proprietor Maria Timperley. The shop is stocked with everything from Ecover cleaning products to South African Fair Trade wine, and Maria and her staff pride themselves on the local product range and excellent customer service.
Find the Green House at Gold Hill Organic Farm, Child Okeford, DT11 8HB,

Phone 01258 863716
email : info@thegreenhouse.biz
website : www.thegreenhouse.biz
     
    Green Valley Organic Farm Shop
Nick and Kim Chatt took over Green Valley Organic Farm Shop at Godmanstone last year. The shop is on the Longmeadow Organic Vegetable Farm, started by Hugh and Patsy Chapman, and across the road from Will and Pam Best’s famous Manor Farm organic dairy. Green Valley stocks Longmeadow vegetables, a wide variety of organic and local cheese, bread, wine and other groceries, and frozen meat, poultry and fish, as well as Ecover,and organic bath and beauty products. The shop, on the A352, is open Wednesday to Saturday.

For details, including the availability of fresh local meat, Phone 01300 342164.
     
    Hall & Woodhouse
Hall & Woodhouse is a real Dorset family business. It was founded more than 200 years ago at Ansty, and today is run by the fifth generation of the Woodhouse dynasty.
Tradition and innovation have kept the company at the forefront of Britain’s regional brewers. As well signature brews Badger First Gold and Tanglefoot, there are always seasonal beers, including Screen Bites favourite Fursty Ferret. New this year are Pumpkin Ale, Pickled Partridge and Poacher’s Choice, three distinctive winter beers. In this year’s Dorset Food Awards the company won Best Drinks Producer of the Year. Hall and Woodhouse is sponsoring the Reel Bites of Dorset Pie competition, organised by Screen Bites.

website : www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk
     
    Home Farm Shop
Marlene Belbin made a name for herself at farmers markets, selling her chutneys and preserves and the ducks she raises at Tarrant Gunville, where her family has farmed for three generations. When she opened Home Farm Shop, in a converted barn, customers soon followed the signs from the C13 (Higher Blandford Road) to Home Farm. As well as the ducks, chickens and preserves, Marlene stocks a wide range of Dorset and regional products including bread, home-made cakes, cereals, flour, cheeses, seasonal game, fruit and vegetables.

website : www.homefarmshop.co.uk
     
    Honeybuns
Honeybuns have just produced their first savoury bar, The BumbleO, at their Holwell headquarters. Made with onion marmalade, farmhouse Cheddar, roasted tomato and Stilton, these Italian style snacks join Honeybuns delicious gluten-free range. Even those who normally can’t eat cakes can enjoy a Honeybun. Emma Goss-Custard devises the recipes, all made up by the dedicated staff. Many of the bars are also dairy free. The company has just won three gold stars in Great Taste Awards for the amaretti-style Amondi Bars.
Look out for Honeybuns products at farm shops and independent food retailers, or call in to the Bee Shack at Holwell and enjoy a cup of tea and a cake with a difference.

Phone 01963 23597.
website : www.honeybuns.co.uk
     
    Lagan Farm Shop
Lagan Farm Shop is at the Orchard Park garden centre near Gillingham. Owners Ron and Sheila Clarke rear rare-breed cattle including beautiful British Whites at their Lagan Farm, next to the garden centre. Sheila says: “It makes sense to shop locally, reducing food miles, giving farmers a better deal and ensuring that the produce we buy is really fresh.” The farm shop is the only outlet for Lagan beef, lamb and pork. The shop also stocks organic lamb from Pythouse Farm, local cheeses, cakes and deserts from Lavender Blue, chutneys, preserves, eggs, honey, fruit and vegetables, as well as beers from Keystone Brewery.

Phone 01747 835544.
website : www.orchardpark.biz/farmshop.asp
     
    Leakers Bakery
Leakers Bakery in Bridport uses local flour milled by Michael Stoate at Cann Mill near Shaftesbury. Leakers has just won the Dorset Food Award for the best independent barker, after nominations from eager and loyal customers. The shop sells a range of traditional breads, constructed using slow ferments and careful mixing, as well as good old fashioned cakes and pies. Leakers bread is also available at many farm shops.

Phone 01308 423296.
     
    Long Crichel Bakery
Jamie and Rose Campbell make bread the way it used to be made at Long Crichel Bakery on Cranborne Chase. They use a wood-fired oven to bake a range of traditional French, Italian and English white and wholemeal breads. They also use spelt and kamut, two ancient grains which are suitable for those with gluten intolerance. This autumn they are opening a shop and cafe in Wimborne.

Phone 01258 830852.
website : www.longcrichelbakery.co.uk
     
    Longburton Farm Shop
Longburton Farm Shop is run by Sarah and Dick Harris, in a traditional farmyard with chickens and ducks, on the A352 in the middle of Longburton. Specialising in home-produced beef, and rare-breed lamb and pork from the farm, which is in conversion to organic, the shop is open on Tuesday and Wednesday, and from Friday to Sunday. As well as the meat, there are home-made sausages, fresh eggs and Sarah’s own cakes. Geese and guinea fowl are reared for the Christmas market.

Phone 01963 210203
website : www.longburtonfarmshop.co.uk
     
    Nether Cerne Herbs and Flour
Nether Cerne Herbs and Flour. Brother and sister Edward and Eleanor Gallia are putting their hidden Dorset valley on the map with their conservation, flour and medicinal herb projects. Edward has successfully trialled his home-grown and Dorset-milled flour with Oxfords Bakery and other bakers and caterers. Eleanor is a qualified medical herbalist who divides her time between Nether Cerne and Iracambi forest research and conservation centre in Brazil. She uses native species to make herbal recipes and teas, and also leads herb walks in Dorset.

Phone 01300 341750.
     
    Oxfords Bakery
Tradition matters at Oxfords Bakery, where the methods and recipes have hardly changed through four generations. The business was established by Frank Oxford in 1911 at Alweston near Sherborne. The baton (or baguette!) has been passed to Ron and Joyce, on to Roger and Sue and now to Steven, who works closely with his parents. The 1911 dough mixer is still used by Roger Oxford to demonstrate how bread used to be made - a popular attraction at local shows. Steven Oxford has recently successfully made bread with flour milled from wheat grown at Nether Cerne. Oxfords were finalists in the Dorset Food Awards Best Independent Baker contest this year.
     
    Stevens Farm Shop
Norman and Liz Barnes and their daughter Nicola opened their shop at Stevens Farm, Martinstown, in 2005 and have twice been finalists in Dorset Magazine’s Food Awards farm shop category.
Stevens Farm Shop, in a converted milking parlour, stocks Dorset products including Clipper Teas, Denhay, Dorset Blue and Woolsery cheeses, Jack and Ollie’s crisps and chutneys, Bridfish kippers, Bridport Gourmet Pies and Janet Pook’s preserves. Norman, the Sausage King of Martinstown, also makes the unique Dorset Faddle savouries and succulent bacon and Liz makes all the delicious cakes.

Phone 01305 889216.
website : www.stevensfarmshop.co.uk
     
    Town Mill Bakery
Town Mill Bakery is run by Aiden Chapman by the picturesque Town Mill at Lyme Regis, and it opens from Tuesday from Saturday from daybreak until the bread is sold out! Aiden produces a wide range of artisan breads on the premises, using long fermentation to develop the full flavour of the dough. The bakery does not use artificial enhancers or chemical improvers. It uses flours made from organic grains, including the Town Mill’s own stoneground wholemeal flour. Unusual breads include cider and apple, yoghurt and rosemary and the Town Mill Soda Bread, made with oats, flour, honey and Denhay buttermilk.

Phone 01297 444035.
     
    Washingpool
Washingpool Farm Shop near Bridport is Dorset’s Farm Shop of the Year for the second year running, and it is one of the region’s busiest farm shops. The Eveleigh-Holland family have farmed at Allington for 35 years. Simon Holland says: “Apart from our own farm-grown produce, we specialise in greengrocery alongside which we stock everything foodie, from meat, fish, dairy and bakery to chocolate, olives, teas, coffees and biscuits.”
The shop is open seven days a week and stocks home-grown fruit and vegetables, eggs, pork and beef as well as produce from more than 50 suppliers from within a 50-mile radius of Bridport.

Phone 01308 459549.
website : www.washingpool.co.uk
     
    Wyld Meadow Lamb
Clive and Jo Sage raise their sheep at Wyld Meadow Farm close to the Dorset-Devon border, where Clive’s family has farmed for generations. The sheep are reared naturally, and this year Wyld Meadow Lamb added to its chest of trophies with a Taste of the West gold award for Noisette of Dorset Lamb and Devon and Dorset Angus Sirlion Steak, and silver for the Leg of Dorset Lamb.

Phone 01297 678318 or find Clive at Dorset Farmers Markets.
     
    Zoe's
Zoe Maclaren makes Zoe’s Chocolates at Crepe Farm near Bridport. She specialises in bespoke hand-made cakes and also creates puddings, cakes, petits fours, truffles, fudges and Turkish Delight. After many requests for dairy-free truffles, she has introduced a new range that is suitable for both vegans and those with dairy intolerance. The new truffles contain 82% dark chocolate with no trace of dairy, soya cream, soya margarine and honey. The honey is omitted in the vegan. The truffles a slightly nutty flavour and a shelf-life of two months. Flavours include Stem Ginger, Apricot, Chilli and Tequila, Praline, Cointreau and Expresso.

Phone 07739 884272.
website : www.cakesandchocolates.co.uk
       
       
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