{"id":3885,"date":"2010-10-05T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T10:03:31","slug":"farm-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Farm Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about farm shops, and how you can get some good stuff from them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3886 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/147;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Gonalston Farm Shop\" alt=\"Gonalston Farm Shop\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gon_farm_shop.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>I often use Red Down farm shop in Highworth, Wiltshire for my eggs, although I must admit to having had a couple of dodgy experiences recently &#8211; once with about 50% of the three dozen eggs I&#8217;d bought being bad (green and smelly), and then with two dozen eggs being several weeks away from freshness (they ran across the entire pan when you cracked them, then I found a bad one after I&#8217;d had them a week or two).<\/p>\n<p>You <em>do<\/em> expect &#8220;fresh&#8221; eggs to have been laid&#8230; well, if not that morning, perhaps a day or two before.<\/p>\n<p>I have a new pupil at the moment who lives out at Bleasby. I noticed there was a farm shop &#8211; <a title=\"Gonalston Farm Shop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gonalstonfarmshop.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gonalston farm shop<\/a> &#8211; on the A612 on the way out there. They used the right bait to snag me: a chalked sign on the road saying &#8220;2kg beef rump \u00a320&#8221;. So once when I had time, I went in.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a big place, and the staff are extremely helpful. The meat counter is a full-on butchers. I bought some of the meat they&#8217;d advertised and a couple of dozen eggs. The meat was local, and as tender as anything when cooked. The eggs were obviously very fresh, sitting pertly in the pan when cracked.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about farm shops, and how you can get some good stuff from them. I often use Red Down farm shop in Highworth, Wiltshire for my eggs, although I must admit to having had a couple of dodgy experiences recently &#8211; once with about 50% of the three dozen eggs I&#8217;d bought being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}