Cardona & Son at the Hitchin Beer and Cider Fest....

We had a fantastic time at the Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival - Camra put on a fantastic event and the crowds just kept on coming! (Over 2000 vistors in 2 days with over 5000 pints of ale and 1150 pints of cider demolished! )We sold 700+ delicious rare breed sausages sharing a pitch with one of our lovely Hitchin clients The Radcliffe Arms - It was all about pork with scratchings, sausages and pork rolls on the menu showing what a versatile animal the humble pig is! 

We met lots of friendly locals and had some fantastic feedback about our sausages (and Jane's homemade coleslaw :-) we definitely think we've converted some tastebuds. 

A big thankyou to all who helped it happen - Especially though...our great friend Ben, CAMRA, The Radcliffe Arms, Quotidian Bakery (How good are their rolls!), CAMRA volunteers and The Artisan Food Trail for spreading the word... We hope to be invited next year! 

Andre + Jane Cardona

Cardona & Son at the Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival! 9th/10th March

We'll be back at the Hitchin Town Hall for Camra's essential event for beer lovers - Make sure you pop in and visit us this Friday and Saturday, we can't think of anything better to nibble on with a pint than our mouth watering rare breed sausages! Made with local produce sourced from within a 10 mile radius of Hitchin, we'll definitely make it worth a visit. 

We look forward to meeting you there,

Andre & Jane



Fri 9th (Noon-11pm) & Sat 10th March (11am-11pm) 

Entry on the door : £2.50 

Hitchin Town Hall, Brand Street, Hitchin, SG5 1HX 

P R E S S R E L E A S E

CARDONA & SON

HIVE MANAGEMENT SCHEME

HERTFORDSHIRE/BEDFORDSHIRE

Companies and businesses all over the UK are reducing their carbon footprint and looking to find new

ways to be environmentally responsible. Bees are a vital part of our ecosystem – two of every three

mouthfuls we eat is due to pollination by bees. Incredible right? However, British honeybees are in crisis,

their population dwindling at an alarming rate due to virus, pesticide and mite.

As food lovers we should all be concerned about their future.

Support British Bees with Cardona & Son

• The opportunity to host beehives at your location

• Continued maintenance and materials for the hive

• Regular visits to the hive to make sure your bees are happy and healthy

• ‘I support British Bees’ logo for use on your website and marketing material

• Promotion of your involvement via Cardona & Son blog and Twitter

• Press release announcing your involvement in the scheme circulated to local and national press, and

radio

• 100% of all honey harvested for you to sell, use as client gifts or use in your kitchen!

• The opportunity throughout the year to participate in various aspects of bee-keeping and honey

extraction

For more information on timelines, details and costs please contact Andre Cardona

Telephone: 07958 655962

Email: cardonaandson@gmail.com

See what we’re up to at www.thecardonagoodlife.blogspot.com

Or follow us on Twitter @cardonaandson

Happy New Year!

Just a little note to wish all our friends and customers a fantastic 2012 - full of fun, laughter and of course... good food! We've had a brilliant 2011 and we're looking forward to more adventures this year. Warmest wishes Jane, Andre and Santi x

All boxes are sold by weight,

Regular Box: Approx 4.5kg - £36.00

Will include one roasting joint - shoulder or leg, chops and sausages

Medium Box: Approx 6.5kg - £52.00

Will include two roasting joints - shoulder and leg, chops and sausages

All boxes are sold by weight, if you would like specific cuts please let us know when you order.

Choose from a selection of

Pork and apple sausages
Sweet Chilli sausages - more sweet than chilli
Pork and Leek sausages

And - arriving next week we'll have lots of lovely gammon, bacon and ham...

Christmas Specials!

Christmas is now upon us  and we have some lovely porky specials to keep you and the family going over the festive season - don't forget we deliver free of charge to Letchworth, Stotfold and Hitchin - Just to make things even easier!

Choose from a selection of

Pork and apple sausages
Sweet Chilli sausages - more sweet than chilli
Pork and Leek sausages

And - arriving next week we'll have lots of lovely gammon, bacon and ham...

Deck the halls with pigs in blankets!

Just give us a call on 07958655962 - we look forward to hearing from you!

Andre, Jane and Santi

How farmers give to charity...

I was chatting to my Dad the other day, he's a farmer in North West New South Wales in Australia and he told me something really quite lovely so I thought I'd share it here.

He runs an Angus cattle stud - fairly big by our standards here (its 5000 acres) which backs onto the Pilliga scrub (a big state owned forest basically). For  quite some time there had been a rogue bullock which no-one seemed to own, he was prone to knocking down fences and creating a general nuisance of himself. So much so that some farmers in the area had tried to do him in! Eventually he made it to Dad's property and began to run with his herd. Maybe it was old age, but maybe he'd just had enough of being a wild one and calmed down.

Dad managed to get him into a truck of other stock which he was sending in to Coonamble to be sold at auction. He was so big he ended up getting the highest price of all the cattle sent that day so he made it into the local paper - The Coonamble Times.

And instead of taking the money for himself - since Dad wasn't really his owner he decided to donate the lot to The Alzheimer's Society - What a bloke eh?

Anyway, thought that was quite lovely - maybe more of us should think about doing some random acts of kindness every now and then. Onya Dad x

Jane