30th January 2020 We are hiring! At Stansted Farm Shop we pride ourselves in delivering knowledgeable and passionate customer service for our fantastic local food and drink products. We offer a shop deli and cafe experience, set in the beautiful Stansted Park Estate. Most of our employees have been with … Read More
We have a selection of wild, foraged spring greens available this week, hand-picked by Adam. With the mild winter this year, spring is already underway and many plants are coming through earlier than usual. We have 3 cornered wild garlic (£3.50), Sea Beet and Miner’s Lettuce (£2.50) available in punnets, … Read More
I’m so excited to see the new season’s Purple Sprouting Broccoli in the shop – fresh from the fields of Runcton. I consider purple sprouting to be on a par with Asparagus, with superb flavour, and equally as versatile, and if you don’t believe me, then try this recipe for … Read More
Wild rabbit is one of those forgotten tastes that should definitely be brought back to the table. Rabbit is good value, lean, healthy, and extremely tasty. It’s also sustainable with numbers needing to be controlled, especially around Chidham where these rabbits have come from. This casserole is rich, fragrant and … Read More
Healthy and delicious, the combination of Venison and Rogan Josh works well and will keep you warm and comforted during these damp, dark evenings. Ingredients 1 kg shoulder venison or leg 2 tbsp ghee 1 tsp rapeseed oil 3 onions sliced 8 green cardamom pods 1 tsp whole black peppercorns 2-3 cinnamon bark 2-3 whole bay leaves 1 tbs garlic & … Read More
KITCHEN MENU ALL DAY BREAKFAST (10am – 3pm) Farm Shop Full English £10.50 Egg, sausage, bacon, black pudding, veggie haggis, tomato, mushroom, toast GFA Hallgate Farm Free Range Eggs on toast £6.50 (V) GFA Avocado Toast £6.50 (V) GFA Bacon or Stansted Sausage Sandwich £5.50 GFA Toast & Preserves £3.50 … Read More
Banish the winter blues with this cracking Burns Night supper which combines local and Scottish ingredients (Foraged & Wild) in 9 courses. The menu is as follows: Scotch Broth A wee dram… Cullen Skink Home-smoked haddock, foraged Sussex sea herbs Whisky Smoked Venison Uppark fallow, Islay peat whisky, Stansted applewood … Read More
We have a shop that is brimming with delicacies that will keep the scrooge from your door, from local gin miniatures to Stansted honey, Lordington Lavender to chocolate gingers, wild truffles to chocolate truffles and marmalades, jams and chutneys ideal for Christmas feasting. For those people who are impossible to … Read More
We are extremely fortunate to have a wide choice of seriously good chocolatiers based locally, with a superb range in stock making ideal Christmas presents. From JKFine Chocolates single-origin chocolates sourced direct from cocoa farmers, to the Chichester based phenomenon Montezuma’s, we have fun stocking fillers, trays of truffles and … Read More
Once a year we get a number of pannage pigs direct from the New Forest, where they have been fattening through the Autumn on a diet of acorns and other natural foods off the forest floor. This is an opportunity to develop butchery skills such as boning, rolling and tying … Read More