Shop Your Christmas Dinner at Cardiff Farmers Markets
Christmas crackers at the ready! We’ve pulled together some of our top picks from our regular market traders to help make this year’s Christmas dinner your best yet.
Madgetts Farm can help with the most traditional of Christmas meats; their free-range turkeys, geese and ducks are hatched, reared and processed on their farm which overlooks the Wye Valley. Their boned and rolled turkey breast is the perfect compromise if you can’t be bothered with the faff of roasting a whole bird.
Alternatively, the organic Christmas chickens from Penrhiw Farm are free-range and slow grown, and reared on a diet of home-grown cereals, grass, and supplementary organic soy.
Welsh black beef is renowned for flavour, and topside joints make a wonderful roast beef dinner; Penrhiw Farm can cut their organic joints to size to fit your family (or your oven). Delicious served with roast potatoes and parsnips, Yorkshire puddings and lots of seasonal veg.
Speaking of seasonal veg, Paul’s Organic Veg has been busy pulling up kale, cabbage, romanesco, celeriac, cauliflower and sprouts over in Monmouthshire; whilst Coed Organic and Blas Gwent Veg are both based just on the outskirts of Cardiff.
For something a bit different for the big roast, head over to Wild & Rare; you could try the rare-breed pork, the wild fallow venison (which runs through their small farm woods at Golden Grove), or their wild pheasants from the Talley Shoot, which takes place near LLandeilo.
Meanwhile, Carn Edward Meats offer Welsh lamb, mutton, longhorn beef and handmade sausages, all produced on their farm in North Pembrokeshire.
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without cheese and chutney! Head to Ty Caws for the best of British cheese (as well as top tips for creating the perfect festive cheeseboard); then pick up some homemade chutneys, jams and preserves from Roath’s Inner City Pickle, or Monmouthshire’s Little Mill Natural Products.
The Boxing Day sandwich has the potential to be better than the Christmas Day lunch (especially if eaten with a mug of gravy on the side) - but only if you’ve got really good bread, and proper Welsh butter. Riverside Sourdough and Pettigrew Bakeries are both a match made in heaven for the salted block butter from Trecastle Farm - or try it with one of The Artisan Baker’s traditional Portuguese breads.
Whatever you’ll be eating and drinking this month, here’s to a peaceful and relaxing Christmas, and a prosperous new year from all of us at Cardiff Farmers Markets.
Please note: Our last Rhiwbina Market will be open as usual on the 22nd, and Roath Market on the 23rd. Our final Riverside Market of the year will be on Sunday December 24th (Christmas Eve). Our weekly markets will then re-open the weekend of 5th January 2024.