We look at a few of the businesses exhibiting at the Brecon Beacons Food Festival this Saturday 1st October, 2022
In this article we look at those wonderful products that add so evocatively to that delicious dish you are creating whether that is a simple sandwich to a main course for a sumptuous dinner party.
This is what a few of them had to say.
Case for Cooking
The Brecon Food Festival will always hold a special place in the Case for Cooking calendar as it was the very first food show that we attended. We were a little nervous and excited but thoroughly enjoyed our day selling our first six spice kits and four curry spice pots! Our menu has grown considerably since then to include more kits and pots plus new spice rubs and cooking pastes but our principles remain the same. We make everything ourselves in small batches, using only quality herbs and spices and always providing simple printed instructions that anyone can follow.
We have recently relocated to rural Herefordshire where we continue to attend local farmers’ markets and larger food shows across the UK and we’re delighted to be coming back to the Royal Welsh showground this October for the Mid Wales Autumn Fayre.
Little Grandma’s Kitchen
Welcome to Little Grandma’s Kitchen where you will find our full range of artisan chutneys, marmalade, curds, preserves, jams, mustard and spreads, all of which are made in our 5* rated home kitchen in St Clears to our own unique family recipes.
We are celebrating as our Strawberry Prosecco Preserve have won the Lux Life Best Artisan Jams & Preserves Producer 2021 – Wales Fruit Preserve of the Year 2021 (Wales)
Pembrokeshire Chilli Farm
Chilli. It’s what we do.
Owen and Michelle had the dawning realisation that there was a severe lack of variety in the fresh chilli and chilli products available in the usual supermarkets and high street shops.
So off they went, planting a variety of chilli seeds in the hope this would satisfy their need for the chilli. Later, in the summer and with over 150 plants, they had an abundance of shapes, colours, tastes and heat. After many experiments with flavours they emerged with 3 Sauces and 2 Jams.
Pembrokeshire Chilli Farm was born.
Now they have over 20 different products and over 8000 square feet of Poly Tunnels. Growing more than 2000kg of Chilli a year.
Award winning Pembrokeshire Chilli Farm has built an enviable reputation for producing a wide range of superb chilli sauces, jams and spices.
We grow the best Welsh Chillies of all different Heats and Colours. These fantastically fresh chillies are used in our products, its how we guarantee the best flavours and heat.
Fat Man Chilli
We have one simple aim: to make great chilli sauces that are suitable for those starting out on the chilli trail to the hardened chilli-head!
Ensuring that quality ingredients go into each and every one of our sauces we are committed to making the best sauce the world has ever seen.
Little Black Hen
I’m Alison and I’ve been running my small business from our home in Cynheidre near Llanelli. I’m passionate about what I do, producing jams, chutneys and fruit vinegars using the best British ingredients. Everything is made in small batches without using artificial preservatives, flavours or colourings.
Some of my earliest memories are of time spent in the kitchen with my grandparents and my mum learning to bake and to make jams and chutneys. The recipes I’ve developed have been influenced by these experiences.
I’m often asked why the business is called Little Black Hen, well I rediscovered my love of baking and cooking when we started keeping chickens and the first chicken we had was a Black Pekin bantam we called Little Black Hen.
The Welsh Saucery
The Welsh Saucery is a family business based in North Pembrokeshire. We only use quality wholesome ingredients to make our sauces and spice rubs. . So far we have achieved 6 great taste awards. All our products are hand made in small batches.
Gwenynfa Pen y Bryn Apiary
Gwenynfa Pen y Bryn Apiary specialises in producing award-winning jams, marmalades and honey, for retail, using Welsh honey.
The Edwards family have been keeping bees since the 1930s when a swarm of bees landed on a plum tree outside their farmhouse. Carys started bee keeping when she was 12 following her uncle foot steps to producing honey creating the Gwenynfa Pen y Bryn Apiary. Early on Carys started entering her honey in honey shows, beginning to win with her honey and honey products. Honey Jams, Honey Marmalades. In 2020 Carys, with an eye to the future, started producing her award-winning jams in a facility with BRC* accreditation to an award-winning recipe and are now sold under the Gwenynfa Pen y Bryn Apiary brand. Carys has now developed a honey sauce and in the near future she will be launching a bara brith, of course including some award winning honey
Llangattock Honey
The hives are tended by Llangattock Apiaries’ owner, Anthony Smith, who is a member of the British Beekeepers’ Association, and Bee Farmers’ Association. His fascination with bees is long standing. Anthony first learned about bees when he was living in South Africa, but the bees there are aggressive and difficult to keep. He started his first hive six years ago in the Middle East, before moving to Llangattock in 2002 and establishing Llangattock Apiaries near to the River Usk. All Anthony’s bees are of the Buckfast breed, which is renowned for its high honey yield and mild temperament.
Bee Welsh Honey Company
Welshbee I (Shane Llewelyn-Jones) started beekeeping with one hive in the garden aged 12, much to my parents’ dismay! Now 30 years later I run the Bee Welsh Honey Company, based in mid Wales, Builth Wells in the green heart of Mid Wales. Currently running around 150 production hives, apiaries (where hives are kept) are place in the rolling hills and along the flowing river Wye. The forage is an abundance of wild blossom from early spring blossom, low land clover in the summer to the upland heather moors of Mid Wales at the end of the season.
The honey produced in my mind is some of the best, winning/awarded endless honey classes at local, royal and national shows.
Pleasantly Pickled
Established in 2013 in Swindon after many years of making chutneys and pickles as gifts for friends and family at Christmas. It now produces a wide range of homemade pickles, chutneys, jams and sauces.
Now based in the historic town of Pembroke, Pleasantly Pickled prides itself in making high quality, homemade products using fresh locally grown ingredients wherever possible.
Trading at various markets, craft fairs and regional events, the products can also be found in local shops and pubs within Pembrokeshire.
The range includes Piccalilli, Green Tomato Chutney, Chilli Jam, Onion Marmalade, Pickled Onions, Mango Chutney , Gift hampers for all occasions and much more.
For more about the Brecon Beacons Food Festival either go to www.breconbeaconsfoodfestival.co.uk or within this site www.welshcountry.co.uk/melodious-voices-at-brecon-beacons-food-festival.
