Six years of trading at Gonalston Farm Shop was celebrated with the now regular Summer Food Festival on 29^th and 30^th August. Over 2500 people attended the two day tasting, cooking and foodie event. £580.00 was raised for the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire air Ambulance from a raffle. Southwell Rugby Club kindly assisted with a number of boys from the junior team packing bags at the tills and carrying shopping to cars, they had buckets at the tills and raised £337.00 for their new strip.
Eighteen of Gonalston’s regular supplier s took part with local food s on show from Chocolate to Cheese. Teresa Bovey the local home economist demonstrated a number of cooking demonstrations over the two days using some of the foods on show to create simple meals in minutes. Two meat cutting demonstrations on Saturday from WR Wrights were well supported; customers were treated to samples of the created dishes. Ian Sauve one of the GFS fishmongers did a quick demonstration using mackerel to show how easy fish is to prepare and cook.
The farmyard was filled with a selection of animals including the star of the show Peggy (The GFS Pet cow) and her two day old twins Peter and Katy. Twiggy the Donkey and her foal Harry and some rabbits from Ferry Farm Park, chickens from Kate Cressy, Texel sheep from Peter Barlow  (Gonalston Lamb supplier) Georgie’s horse Rusty who was part of one of the competitions’ to guess his weight.
Three Vintage tractors from David Yates agricultural engineers and one from Bill Swindells, were really popular for all the visitor’s. The Gonalston BBQ was busy all day long with Gonalston own home made burgers, sausages and bacon, Azorie Blue fantastic coffee kept everyone going.

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