This little munty went to market

If you’re looking for fresh food that’s steeped in local flavour, food that comes directly from the countryside around you, pay a visit to your nearest farmers’ market. Take, for instance, our local monthly market a couple of miles away in the small Suffolk town of Halesworth. It’s a place where you’ll find an entire menu of meats, cheeses and fresh produce from farms, smallholdings and back gardens in the surrounding villages.

There’s honey, delicious freshly baked bread, Steve the smallholder with his pork, bacon, sausages and goats’ cheese and Lottie’s fresh farm beef from Cratfield. In season you’ll find armfuls of lettuce, cabbages, calabrese and other greenery of all kinds. Then there’s locally grown grass-fed Norfolk horn lamb and mutton, and wild venison.

“There is a growing demand for locally shot wild venison”

Venison sales have faced