NORTH SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

A Company Limited by Guarantee, not having a Share Capital and having Charity Status Company Registered in England No. 2548884 Charity No 1007694

North Somerset Agricultural Society dates for the diary

Carol Service: Thursday 12th December 2019

All Saints Church, Wrington 7.30pm

Traditional Carols followed by mince pies and mulled cider All welcome

North Somerset Show: Sunday 3rd May 2020 Tickets available at early-bird discount prices from January 2020. For schedules, see the

NSAS website www.nsas.org.uk or ring 01934 837283

We plan to sell any unwanted entries between 4 and 5pm. Please indicate on your entry form if you wish any of your exhibits to be sold.

All proceeds will go towards future craft & produce Shows.

The 32nd Annual Crafts & Produce Show is being held in conjunction with the 177th Ploughing & Hedging Match Entry to the match is free, parking is free

Front cover design by Amy Gell

Entry fee for each exhibit 50p Junior classes 20p

No more than 2 entries per person per class

NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED ON THE DAY

All classes open to all comers unless otherwise stated

Payment: Bank Transfer: Sort code: 30-91-84 Account number: 15411568

Please reference payments with ‘Handicraft’ Entries not accepted without payment

Cheques to be made payable to ‘NSAS’

Cash payments also accepted

Entry forms on back cover – separate forms for OPEN and JUNIOR

Entry forms available to download from www.nsas.org.uk/nsas-events/ploughing-match

Please return entry forms to:

Jo Copleston North Somerset Agricultural Society

‘Our Offices 4’, Yeowood Farm, Iwood Lane, Wrington BS40 5NU Tel: 01934 837283

NO LATER THAN Wednesday 28th August 2019

Any personal data supplied on entry forms will be used solely for the purpose of contacting you about the current and future North Somerset Agricultural Society Craft & Produce Shows.

By signing the entry form, you consent to the NSAS Craft & Produce Show using your data in this way To read more about how the North Somerset Agricultural Society stores and processes data, please visit

www.nsas.org.uk/about

Prizes £2, £1, 50p

Best in Show - £20, donated by Mrs Margaret Burdge

Special prizes for certain classes as detailed

£5, donated by Mrs Bay Bardwell to be awarded for the highest number of points for cooking and preserves and the trophy presented by the Society.

A trophy kindly presented by Mrs Pat Myers to be awarded

for the highest number of points in the Handicraft.

£5, donated by Mrs Julie Butler, to be awarded for the highest number of points for flowers and floral art and the trophy kindly presented by Mrs Esme Ford.

£5, donated by Mrs Gay Cook, to be awarded for the highest number of points for fruit and

vegetables and the trophy kindly presented by Mrs Gay Cook.

Timetable for Sunday 1st September

7.30am Tent open to receive exhibits - no exhibits accepted before this time

By 9.30am ALL EXHIBITS MUST BE ON SITE

By 10am STAGING OF ENTRIES MUST BE COMPLETED

10.15am Judging starts

4pm Cup presentation followed by collection of prize money & sale of left over exhibits

Exhibits to be removed by 5pm but not before 4pm

RULES FOR EXHIBITORS! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!

1 If a measurement is quoted in the class description, do not forget to check it, because the judges will.

2 Junior classes must be completed without the help of adults. Their age (on the 1st September 2019) must be clearly shown on the entry form.

3 Novice classes. In this schedule a novice is deemed to be someone who has not won a first prize in the section being entered at this Show.

All entries are anonymous to the judges. Do not take offence at their comments - they are intended to be constructive.

CLASSES

Best in Show to be judged by: Patsy Mead & Anne-Mette Jacobsen £20 Prize, kindly donated by Mrs Margaret Burdge, will be awarded to the overall best

exhibit judged between preserves, alcohol, eggs, cooking, handicrafts, photography, flowers, floral art, vegetables and fruit.

ALCOHOLIC & NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINKS No trade names on bottles

Judge: Leoni Alladay 1 Bottle of wine, sweet or dry, red, white or rose 2 Bottle of Elderflower cordial 3 Bottle of any other homemade non-alcoholic drink, e.g. lemonade, apple juice,

ginger beer, cordial etc. – name to be stated on bottle 4 Bottle of homemade sloe gin – clear glass bottle 5 Bottle of homemade damson gin – clear glass bottle

(£5 prize money donated by Sue Pritchard)

EGGS

(The judge reserves the right to break the eggs) Judge: Richard Simmons

6 Six brown hens' eggs 7 Six hens' eggs - same colour - other than brown 8 Three eggs from any other single breed of poultry

(Prize money in these classes donated by Richard Simmons)

PRESERVES

(Take note of special conditions & see jar labelling diagram)

Judge: Elizabeth Stirratt & Sue Bougourd 9 Pot of strawberry jam 10 Pot of raspberry jam 11 Pot of jam other than strawberry or raspberry 12 Pot of fruit jelly 13 Pot of marmalade from fresh fruit 14 Pot of chutney

EXAMPLEBERRY JAM 19th June 2019

Label your jars with the name of the jam, jelly,

chutney or marmalade and the full date of when it was

made (including year)

Class 14 & 16– use

NEW metal lids.

No trade names on jars

Fill clear plain glass jars to the top to allow cooled jams, jellies and chutneys to settle to a quarter of an inch from the top

Classes 9-13, 15

Use wax discs and cellophane covers or NEW metal lids

Novice classes for any competitor who has never won a FIRST prize in this section. (Prize money in these classes donated by Mrs Bay Bardwell)

15 Pot of jam or jelly - any fruit 16 Pot of chutney

If your jar is not labelled properly, it cannot win a prize

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

➢ Fill clear plain glass jars (no trade names on jars – Kilner allowed) to the top to allow cooled jams, jellies and chutneys to settle to a quarter of an inch from the top.

➢ Names of preserve and date to show on jar label. ➢ Classes 9-13, 15 - use wax discs and cellophane covers, or new metal lids ➢ Class 14 & 16 - USE NEW METAL LIDS. (These can be ordered through any

‘Country Market’ (W I)) Entries with reused lids will not be judged!

COOKING (All cookery must be in polythene bags)

Judge: Jeanne Grant, Margaret Burdge, Clovis Rondet 17 Six pieces of fruit flapjack 18 A cake made with a vegetable ingredient (Please supply recipe on Show day) 19 Victoria sandwich (with red jam filling) – 7'' diameter – approx. (Recipe page) 20 Six sausage rolls 21 Six pieces chocolate brownie 22 Lemon drizzle cake 23 Six shortbread fingers 24 A Somerset apple cake 25 Four butterfly cakes 26 Two bundles of 6 cheese straws 27 A savoury quiche – 8-10'' (20-25cm) in diameter – approx. 28 A ‘Ploughman’s Tea’, suitable to be eaten in the fields. To be judged on individual

items and overall effect. Size – width/length no larger than 29 × 42cm (11.7 × 16.5”) (Special prize: £5; £3; £2 donated by Sue Pritchard)

29 A cottage loaf 30 Four meringue shells 31 Four scones - Men Only

Novice class for any competitor who has never won a FIRST prize in this section.

(Prize Money in this class donated by Mrs Bay Bardwell) 32 Boiled fruit cake – 7''-8'' (18-20cm) diameter approx. (Recipe page) 33 A chocolate marble cake

SPECIAL CONDITIONS ➢ All items of cookery to be covered with polythene bags

➢ Do NOT use clingfilm to wrap any cooking please – it sticks to your cooking and makes it difficult to judge.

Separate schedules available for Ploughing, Hedging & Field Crop classes, please contact the Secretary, Tim Ledbury,

on 08456 342464 to request one.

HANDICRAFTS All exhibits should be as new and garments must be unworn

(£5 Special prize for Best Handicraft Exhibit, given at the judge’s discretion, donated by Mrs Gill Churchill)

Judge: Sue Cowdell 34 A hand knitted item of clothing (adult or child) (any ply) 35 Any item of patchwork 36 An article in crochet 37 A homemade greeting card 38 A doorstop (any medium) 39 Any item of cross stitch 40 Embroidery or tapestry 41 An item of jewellery 42 An item of felting 43 Any item made using recycled materials 44 Compose a poem about ‘Harvest’ 45 Compose a limerick 46 A painting or drawing in any medium (name of artist to be obscured) 47 Any other craft not covered by above classes

PHOTOGRAPHY Prize money in these classes donated by Mr Tom James

Judge: Tina Gue

Please pay attention to stipulated sizes

48 Cow(s) 49 Reflections 50 A character portrait 51 2018 Ploughing Match or May Show 2019

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

➢ Photographs are not to exceed 7” x 5” (13cm x 18cm) ➢ All photos to be mounted on plain white or black A5 size card

➢ Please do not frame your picture! ➢ Must be your own work and no photo more than two years old

Next year’s photo subjects will be:

• 2019 Ploughing Match or May Show 2020 • Stepping stones

• Music • Shadows

RECIPES

VICTORIA SANDWICH 7'' (18cm) diameter approx.

Do not sugar top. Do not turn out so wire tray marks are visible on the top.

6oz (175g) self raising flour 6oz (175g) butter or margarine 6oz (175g) caster sugar 3 eggs

BOILED FRUIT CAKE 7-8''(18-20cm) diameter approx.

4oz (115g) butter or margarine 12oz (350g) mixed dried fruit

1 teacup demerara sugar 4oz (115g) peeled or dried apricots (chopped) 1 teacup of water 4oz (115g) cherries chopped

Put all the above ingredients into a saucepan, bring to boil and then simmer gently for five minutes. Leave, preferably overnight, to cool.

2 teacups self raising flour 1 tsp mixed spice 2 eggs

Add the above three ingredients to the fruit, mix well and place in the greased and lined tin. Cook for 1 ¾ to 2 hours at 150C/300F/gas mark 2.

FLOWERS Judge: Martyn & Valerie Davis

52 Best foliage pot plant 53 Best flowering pot plant 54 One rose 55 One floribunda rose 56 Three gladioli 57 Dahlias – five blooms of a variety or varieties 58 One hydrangea 59 Five blooms of any other flower not mentioned above 60 Best flower in your garden – one bloom or spray 61 A vase of mixed garden flowers, (not from a greenhouse) 62 Tallest sunflower

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

➢ All exhibits to be grown by exhibitors ➢ Vases must be supplied by the exhibitor

FLORAL ART Judge: Martyn & Valerie Davis

63 A posy 64 A ‘peace’ themed arrangement. Not to exceed 20'' wide x 20'' deep (50.8 x 50.8cm) 65 A miniature arrangement – not to exceed 4'' (10.16cm) in width, length or height 66 An arrangement, in an unusual container. 67 An arrangement themed ‘By the Pond’ – Not to exceed 2’6” x 2’00 (76.2 x 60.96cm)

Novice class for any competitor who has never won a FIRST prize in this section.

(Prize money in this class donated by Mrs Bay Bardwell) 68 A flower garland/headband for a bridesmaid

SPECIAL CONDITIONS ➢ Vases must be supplied by the exhibitor.

➢ The flowers for arrangements need not be out of your own garden. ➢ If a measurement if quoted in the class description, do not forget to check it because

the judge will

VEGETABLES (Please name varieties if known)

Judge: Bob Hughes 69 Five cherry tomatoes 70 Five tomatoes 71 A pair of peppers 72 Five potatoes (coloured) 73 Five potatoes (white) 74 Heaviest potato 75 Five onions grown from seed – tops and roots to be intact and unpeeled 76 Five onions grown from sets – tops to be tied down 77 Five shallots suitable for pickling 78 Five carrots – three-inch tops 79 Three beetroot – three-inch tops 80 Longest runner bean 81 Six runner beans 82 One cabbage 83 Three courgettes, no longer than 6” 84 A pair of marrows 85 A pumpkin or squash 86 Heaviest pumpkin (1st £15, 2nd £10, 3rd £5 donated by Mrs Felicity James) 87 Basket of vegetables for a Sunday lunch, to be displayed attractively in a trug, basket

or small box 88 Collection of four culinary herbs in small bunches 89 One specimen of any other vegetable, excluding salad veg 90 A pair of sweetcorn 91 One specimen of a salad vegetable (excluding tomatoes) 92 “Healthy eating – Five a day” - Display of fruit and/or Vegetables from your own

garden. NOT LIMITED TO FIVE ITEMS. (Special prizes £5, £3, £2 donated by Pat Myers)

SPECIAL CONDITIONS ➢ Uniformity of size when showing vegetables in groups is most important.

➢ Vegetables should be gently washed clean, not oiled or polished. ➢ The calyx (stalk) should be left on all tomatoes or cucumbers.

➢ Beans should have a short stalk. ➢ All exhibits to be grown by exhibitors

FRUIT (Please name varieties if known)

All fruit to be exhibited with stalks Judge: Leoni Alladay

93 Apples - any dessert variety – five fruits 94 Bramley seedling – three fruits 95 Any other cooking apple – three fruits 96 Heaviest cooking apple 97 Pears - any variety of five fruits 98 Plums or Gages – any variety of five fruits 99 Blackberries – any variety – twenty fruits 100 Raspberries – twenty fruits 101 Any other fruit – please label with name

SPECIAL CONDITIONS ➢ The calyx (stalk) should be left on all fruit. ➢ All exhibits to be grown by exhibitors

Ploughing & Hedging Match & Crafts & Produce Show

Sunday 1st September 2019

BBQ, licensed bar, trade stands, ice cream, horse ploughing, tractor & trailer rides.

Please bring cash as there are no card payment facilities

available on site! Don’t forget to enter the raffle on the day, there are lots of

prizes to be won

All proceeds go to the North Somerset Agricultural Society. Charity No 1007694

JUNIOR SECTION All entries in this section 20p

Prize money in classes 107 – 116 sponsored by Mrs Anita Simmons Prize money in classes 117 – 126 sponsored by Kate Esler

Junior prizes: £1, 50p, 25p and Prize for the highest number of points presented by the Craft & Produce Committee

Rules: 1. Ages reckoned to the day of the Show 2. Age of entrant to be displayed on each exhibit

3. All entries must be the work of the exhibitor. 4. All exhibits must never have been entered at a previous Ploughing Match.

JUNIOR PHOTOGRAPHY Judge: Tina Gue

Any age up to 16 years 102 Insect(s) 103 Sport in action 104 Your pet 105 My Summer holiday – A view, a day out, the people you met, the activities you did

➢ Photographs are not to exceed 7” x 5” (13cm x 18cm)

➢ All photos to be mounted on plain white or black A5 size card ➢ Please do not frame your picture!

JUNIOR ARTS AND CRAFTS

Judges: Patsy Mead & Anne-Mette Jacobsen

Any age up to 16 years 106 Design the front cover for the 2020 Crafts & Produce Show Designs must be in A4

and hand drawn or painted. It needs to include the following words: “North Somerset Crafts & Produce Show Schedule. Sunday 6th September 2020. Entries close: Wednesday 2nd September 2020. Stepstones Farm, Langford, Bristol BS40 5HS”

4 years old and Under (age on the day of the Show)

107 A painting done with my hands or feet! 108 A pasta necklace 109 A fruit/vegetable print picture 110 Four Rice Krispie cakes (decorations of your choice) 111 A painted stone

5 to 7 years old (age on the day of the Show)

112 An animal made from vegetables and/or fruit 113 A bug made from natural plant materials 114 A farmyard mask 115 Four cookies 116 A decorated wellie

8 to 11 years old (age on the day of the Show)

117 A miniature farm in a standard seed tray 118 A picture of a landscape (in any medium; pencil, charcoal, felt pen, pen and ink,

crayon etc. Not digital) 119 Six shortbread fingers 120 A tractor made from recycled materials 121 Hand written and illustrated article of poetry (Poem supplied below)

Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Last night I dreamed of chickens, there were chickens everywhere,

they were standing on my stomach, they were nesting in my hair,

they were pecking at my pillow, they were hopping on my head,

they were ruffling up their feathers as they raced about my bed.

They were on the chairs and tables,

they were on the chandeliers, they were roosting in the corners,

they were clucking in my ears, there were chickens, chickens, chickens

for as far as I could see... when I woke today, I noticed

there were eggs on top of me. - Jack Prelutsky

12 to 16 years old (age on the day of the Show)

122 Film a ‘Book Trailer’ video. 2 minutes maximum length. Must be sent via email or WeTransfer to jo@nsas.org.uk by the closing date

123 A painting – ‘Beside the Sea’ (in any medium; pencil, charcoal, felt pen, pen and ink, crayon etc. Not digital)

124 A Victoria sponge (recipe page) 125 A patchwork item 126 Anything you like – you made it, let’s see