( the supper club )
Purton House in all its glory and, right, the biggest barbecue ever?
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here are some special folk in life, it seems; men and women just born to inspire. They are infectiously enthusiastic, passionate and creative people. Then, very rarely, you come across whole families who fit this bill
– like this brood from Purton, near Swindon. Natalia (or Talia to her friends) Maddison runs
Cotswold Cooks from her childhood family home at Purton House Organic Farm. It’s an outside catering company with a difference. Produce is, where possible, sourced locally and is organic. Indeed, you couldn’t get a much more traceable provenance if you tried, as the
Talia’s nephew, blacksmith Tom, made these salt and pepper pots
majority of vegetables are grown by sister Rowie Meers. Rowie runs Purton House Organics, which has been
growing vegetables and rearing beef on the 70 hectares at the farm since the last century. Twenty years ago the family turned the farm organic, and they now offer seasonal fruit and veg, free-range eggs and beef, culminating in their increasingly popular local, organic veg box scheme. Any other produce is sourced from growers and makers
that Talia knows personally – sourdough is bought from Thierry at La Parisienne (you might have spotted him at Gloucester, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Winchombe, Stroud and Malmesbury farmers’ markets), organic butter is courtesy of some hardworking Guernsey cows in Berkley and cheese is either picked up from Rowie at the farm shop, or at Cirencester market on a Friday. Even the coffee is sourced responsibly – this time from elder sister Alice Rendle, who runs Edgcumbes tea and coffee merchants from Arundel. And if you want petit fours with your coffee? Well, that would come courtesy of younger sister Ibby, who makes bespoke chocolates of every and any description. And don’t even get us started on their children: one’s a local blacksmith – take a look at the handcrafted salt and pepper pots for proof. (See what we mean? Inspirational.) Naturally, it seemed rather fitting to utilise this foodie
family for a special Crumbs Supper Club at the family home on the farm.
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