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The Watercress Company is keen to promote its technical innovations as well as the benefits of eating fresh watercress and leafy salads.
Below is a selection of articles which have appeared featuring The Watercress Company and its products.
- Listen to Radio 4's recent broadcast from Waddock
Radio 4 presenter Elinor Goodman and sound recordist Caroline Snook spent time with us at Waddock Farm in Dorchester on Wed 16th June.
July 2010 - Valentine Warner
Valentine Warner promotes The Watercress Company on his website
August 2010 - Watercress: Best of the bunch
It's been upstaged in the kitchen by fashionable rocket leaves. But now we're rediscovering the peppery pleasures of watercress - read this article from the Independent written by Anthea Gerrie.
May 2010 (The Independent) - Superfood: green blooded 24-7 food hero, Tim Jesty is enjoying the plants surge in popularity.
For many of us, spuds or pasta are a daily suppertime fixture but for Tim Jesty the tables must-have ingredient is green and leafy with a peppery bite: Watercress....
May 2010 - Watch clips from television featuring Watercress
Due to the rise in the popularity of Watercress it is often used as an ingredient by TV chefs. Click here to view some short clips of recent TV programmes.
- Weymouth Manor Townswomen's Guild visit TWC
Members of Weymouth Manor Townswomen's Guild spent an interesting morning at Warmwell farm with Managing Director Tom Amery
April 2010 - VISIT US AT THE ALRESFORD WATERCRESS FESTIVAL
Enjoy a day out in Hampshire and visit us at the Alresford watercress festival on Sunday 16th May - get a sneak preview of the programme here...
April 2010 - GUIDE TO BUYING, STORING, COOKING & EATING WATERCRESS
Rick Peters from the Guardian looks at the different ways Watercress can be used and examines some of the many health benefits.
March 2010 - VOILA, SAYS TV CHEF RAYMOND BLANC
Raymond Blanc visited The Watercress Company's Manor Farm, Hampshire in the late summer of 2009.
March 2010 - PRINCESS OF WALES' WATERCRESS SOUP RECIPE
The Food Aid Cookery Book features a recipe for Watercress Soup from the Princess of Wales.
October 2009 - WATERCRESS PRODUCERS STAND THEIR GROUND
British Watercress farmers are seeking an EU ruling to ensure that land-grown cress cannot be sold as traditionally grown Watercress.
October 2009 - LOCAL FOOTBALL CLUB SPONSORSHIP
The Watercress Company participate in the local community and sponsor Owermoigne FC for the coming season.
October 2009 - WATERCRESS WILD AND CULTIVATED
Watercress is a British native plant and grows wild in streams and ditches, although possible contamination by bacteria or liver fluke means that it is not wise to eat this.
Published September 09 (Kitchen Garden) - TESCO PUSHES WATERCRESS
Tesco is enhancing it's watercress offer in the south by hosting Meet the Grower events featuring local producers, as it looks to boost promotion and sales of the product.
Published August 09 (FPJ) - RESEARCH IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS
Hardly a week goes by without some research study into the health benefits of a particular food hitting the headlines.
Published July 09 (FPJ) - RETAIL IS ALL ABOUT IMAGE WHEN IT COMES TO QUALITY
While the multiples obsess about promoting value for money on their fresh produce shelves, there remains an ongoing battle to project their reputation for quality.
Published May 08 (FPJ) - CONSUMER MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR WINNER
Wendy Akers, PR for the Watercress Alliance .
Published March 08 (Horticulture Week) - MEET THE SUPPLIER: TOM AMERY WATERCRESS FARMER
It's delicious peppery flavour makes Watercress one of the UK's most popular salad leaves, with a national market of about 90 tonnes per week.
Published 11/01/08 (Gazette) - HEALTHY AND DELICIOUS: WATERCRESS IS POPULAR ALL YEAR ROUND
The British are champion watercress eaters, says Tom Amery.
Published 22/11/07 (Country Life) - TWC TRIUMPH LEADS TO GROWTH
Successful marketing in the spring and growth of the market forecast at 20% this year have led The Watercress Company to invest in expanding its spring and autumn production area in Spain.
Published October 07 (FPJ) - WATERCRESS COMPANY PLANS EXPANSION
Recent building work is almost complete on a new 4ha watercress bed development at the Dorset based firm at Rocio.
Published 01/10/07 (Freshinfo) - ONE STEP FURTHER AT THE WATERCRESS COMPANY
The Watercress Company (TWC) has gone one step further in reducing field contaminants in baby leaf salad crops.
Published July 07 (FPJ) - WATERCRESS: FROM THE REGIONS
Watercress is available from the UK throughout the year but with demand so high these days the main UK season is between May and October.
Published 28/06/07 (Caterer & Hotel Keeper) - WAITROSE'S GREAT REGIONAL AND UNWASHED
Waitrose has successfully launched the latest of its award winning regional offer last week.
Published 25/06/07 (Freshinfo) - WAITROSE: BEST OF BRITISH
Food farming and the preservation of our countryside are always in the news and more people than ever want to know how their food is produced.
Published May/June 2007 (Seasons - Waitrose magazine) - WATERCRESS CEMENTS STATUS
The Watercress Alliance, a consortium of UK watercress producers, is hoping to cement the leafy vegetable's superfood appeal with a new study showing it can significantly lower the risk of cancer.
Published Feb 07 (FPJ) - LATEST WEAPON IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER: WATERCRESS
'Eating watercress everyday could cut the risk of getting cancer' according to researchers.
Published 16/02/07 (Daily Mail) - DAILY BUNCH OF WATERCRESS 'CAN CUT CANCER RISK'
'Eating watercress everyday could help protect against cancer' say researchers.
Published 16/02/07 (Daily Express) - SPICY LEAVES ARE A SUPERFOOD SAY BOFFINS
'Move over blueberries - Watercress is the new superfood of 2007'.
Published 16/02/07 (Sun) - WATERCRESS: THE ANCIENT CURE ALL
Watercress was declared the latest superfood yesterday for being packed with a higher than usual amount of nutrients found in vegetables.
Published 16/02/07 (Daily Telegraph)