Vote for your favourite local banger and sample a variety of Welsh apple juices at Haverfordwest Farmers Market's annual Harvest Fayre today (Friday). The Harvest Fayre will take place at the Riverside Quay from 9 am to 3 pm and celebrates British Food Fortnight and the Farmers Market Month of Taste. The fayre will feature seasonal cookery demonstrations from S4C chef Dudley and Alastair Vaan from Y Mochyn Drwg in Newport. There's autumn planting ideas, composting and recycling tips, face-painting, corn dolly-making, live music, and the chance win a hamper of farmers' market produce in aid of MacMillan Nurses. The market also promises its usual great fresh produce - from home-produced meat to free-range eggs, seasonal fruit and vegetables, farmhouse cheeses, home-made preserves, bread, cakes, and more. Kate Morgan, food officer for Pembrokeshire County Council and market organiser, said around five million sausages are eaten every day in the UK. "We hope lots of people will come and try our Sausage Taste Challenge, which is new this year," she said. "The quality of locally-produced sausages, which can have nearly twice as much meat as some supermarket sausages, is exceptionally high." Peter Hughes, of Preseli Gold in Fishguard, is dedicated to producing top quality, traditionally- made sausages from his own historic recipes. "Our motto is that we keep it simple and make it good," he said. "We just use meat and good- quality, simple seasonings." Andrew Eastwood, of Yerbeston Gate Farm, near Kilgetty, specalises in Welsh black beef, pork and lamb, home-made burgers and sausages. He said it is well worth buying locally-made sausages. "We rear all the pork on the farm, so obviously it is fully traceable and the food miles are far fewer," he said. The Welsh apple juice tastings will be provided by Graig Barn Farm, based near Crickhowell. Their juices range from sweet to sharp, and are made from apples from local organic orchards, which produce some very rare and ancient apple varieties. Samples include Bramley, Monarch, Tom Putt, Monmouth Green and Annie Elizabeth and up to 30 different apple varieties can be juiced in one season.
