Local With Love
Give the gift of local this Christmas. Conscious gifting is IN, and buying local is more green and sustainable. Local buys offer luxurious and useful treats, yet also support and sustain local businesses and local communities.
Below are Hampshire Fare's suggestions for gifts under £25. Some start at around £10! Visit your nearest farm shop and village store for more local finds or browse Hampshire Fare’s website for more local goodies that can be delivered direct to the door.
£25 & UNDER
SKINCARE & HOME FRAGRANCES: Hampshire Soap’s Soap Box contains a trio of soap bars in Frost, Pine and Spice for £14. These bars of handcrafted, traditionally made soap use Hampshire Ingredients and are scented with essential oils. Every bar is natural, cruelty free and vegan, handwrapped in recyclable gift wrapping and finished with a velvet bow and hang tag. Other skincare and home fragrance ranges include A Basket of Bees, Cyril’s Soap Shed, New Forest Aromatics, Summerdown and Lavender Fields.
TEA & COFFEE: Recently named BBC Food & Farming Drinks Producer for their teas, Summerdown have launched a BBC Food & Farming Awards Tea Bundle for £10. Tea lovers may also appreciate New Forest Tea Company loose leaf sample box for £10.25 and gift vouchers from £10. For coffee aficionados local roasteries nclude Forest Edge Roasting Co, Hocombe Coffee Co, Island Roasted, Moonroast, Mozzo, River Coffee, South Coast Roast.
ALES & BEERS: Longdog Brewery's new seasonal ale Ruddy Elf is available in gift packs (three for £10; six for £20). This is a quaffable gift for the ale enthusiast with a story behind every glassful. For example, family-run Longdog Brewery is now Basingstoke’s sole custodian of the town’s long brewing tradition, and uses mineral rich Hampshire water as well as locally grown hops from an estate where owner and head brewer Rod picked hops as a boy! Other local breweries with seasonal ales and tours and tastings available includes Andwell Brewing Co, Bowman Ales ltd, Flack's, Goddards Brewery, Growling Gibbon Brew Co, Pig Beer, Power Monkey Brewing Co, Steam Town Brew Co, Triple FFF Brewing.
CHOCOLATE & CONFECTIONARY: National Grand Champion (Great British Food Awards 2022) Winchester Cocoa’s fresh Christmas Chocolate Collection (from £23) includes special festival flavours alongside a selection of established favourites including fruit, caramel, spice and nut centres. Tubs or praline bears (£8) and Dark orange chocolate segments (£10.25) also available. Treats from other chocolate and confectionary artisans include Beaulieu Chocolate Studio, Chococo, Fordingbridge Fudge, Katie Bakes, Little Bee Bakery, New Forest Shortbread, Summerdown, The Homemade Brownie Company.