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growing selection of farmgate and farm fresh produce, reducing
the food chain from home grown to home delivered, including
organic meat; cheeses; fresh fish and other produce sourced
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ONLINE
MARKETS & GUIDES |
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About
Food The largest UK fine food and drink resource and
directory - Fine food and drink produce, events and news.
Gourmet recipes, restaurants, and good food
Daylesford
Organics Their
online shop offers the finest food, straight from Daylesfords
organic fields and pastures. They farm to traditional methods,
caring deeply about animal welfare and sustainability.
Big
Barn Putting fresh produce on the map, the site aims
to find you local produce that is fresh, accountable and therefore
safe. Register and receive short emails about food news and
special offers in your area.
Farmshop Use this site to find Farm Shops, Country Stores and
Rural Outlets in your area. Currently under construction.
London
Farmers Market Dedicated to the farmers' markets in
London. Whether you're a chef, a customer, a producer or a
journalist, it contains everything the Londoner needs to know.
National
Association of Farmers' Markets where farmers, growers
or producers from a defined local area are present in person
to sell their own produce, direct to the public. All products
sold should have been grown, reared, caught, brewed, pickled,
baked, smoked or processed by the stallholder.
Simply
Organic Your one-stop organic shop!† With over 2,000
certified and healthy organic products on offer, your weekly
food and essentials shopping is only a click away. Proud Winners
of both the "Best Home Delivery Service", in the Soil Association
and You Magazine 2001 Organic Food Awards, and "Organic Initiative
of the Year" in the 2001 Reed Retail Awards.
Tastes
of Anglia Promotes the fine food and drink produced
in the six counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex,
Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. They provide trading opportunities
and a comprehensive service package to support their members
and help increase awareness of the region's products.
Taste
Of England Great speciality food and drink-direct
from the farm gate to your plate. 852 producers online.
The
Wholesome Meat Company The Wholesome Meat Company
are a family run livestock farm breeding, rearing, growing
and promoting traditional rare and pure breed livestock. They
put the welfare and happiness of all their animals above all
else on their farm.
UK
Shop Online Comprehensive UK shopping directory with
hundreds of UK shops.
Country
Markets - formerly the W.I. Markets Country market
stalls offer a wide range of crafts, home grown and home made
produce from the kitchen, garden and dairy. Held in over 500
towns and villages throughout England, Wales and the Islands,
they provide a friendly venue for both seller and buyer alike.
Use the site to find market places, times and dates.
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Casa
Italiano is billed as the pizza makers choice of
brand for a grated cheese that aims to provide the very
best cooking and eating experience. Ideal for use as a pizza
cheese topping.
Caws
Cenarth Cheese Caws Cenarth have revived the
manufacture of traditional Welsh Farmhouse Caerphilly cheesemaking,
and is the longest established Welsh Farmhouse Caerphilly
cheese makers in Wales. Today they make a large selection
of fine Welsh Cheese and have won numerous awards including
3 consecutive firsts at the Royal Welsh, Gold,Silver and
Bronze awards at the British Cheese Awards.
House
of Cheese Award-winning UK cheese business with
online mail order cheese shop.
Kerrygold
This internationally reknowned brand includes a wide
range of cheeses and other quality Irish dairy products.
The
Cheese Shed Online shop specialising
in Westcountry farmhouse cheese. Over 50 wonderful cheeses
from small producers in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and
Dorset.
West
Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers This co-operative
of dairy farmers was formed in 1982 and included all who
made Farmhouse Cheddar on their farms in the Western counties
of England.
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CIDERS |
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Minchew's
Real Cyder & Perry has been produced commercially
since 1993 and claim to now be the world's largest producer
of single variety Cyders and Perries - committed to producing
the highest quality Cyders and Perries through natural methods,
without the aid of artificial assistance, additives or chemicals.
All fruit is hand-picked, hand-washed, milled in an old-fashioned
scratter and pressed on an old stone slab, which has run with
the juice of apples and pears for over a century, and then
allowed to ferment naturally in oak barrels.
The
Olivers Herefordshire Homepage The result of diversification
by one Herefordshire farming family. Delicious cider and perry
from unsprayed Herefordshire fruit, matured in oak barrels
and available draft and bottled. Additional pages of history
and guide to Herefordshire.
Westons
Cider and Perry has been made at 'The Bounds' in the
Herefordshire Village of Much Marcle for over one hundred
and twenty years
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FARM
SHOPS |
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Good
Food Pages Find the best local produce
in the UK, including organic, specialist, fairtrade
and free-range food and drink. Also lists farmers
markets, events, cookery books, recipes and more!
Organic
Meat Supplying excellent quality fresh
foods that have been prepared with care, delivered
reliably.
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FISH |
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Smoked
Salmon Inverawe
Smokery Shop selling smoked salmon, loch etive trout, smoked
trout, smoked pate, cod roe, roe, caviar, oyster, gravadlax,
smoked halibut, roast smoked trout and smoked eel.
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Amazing
Alpacas Based
in South Wales, breeding high quality alpacas in a range of
colours. Friendly advice on building your ideal herd.
Cookinabook
Based in rural Dorset they provide a simple method of publishing
custom cookbooks. Ideal for individuals or companies (such
as specialist food producers) who want their own recipe book
to sell and organisations like the WI who want to raise funds.
North
Yorkshire Food Producers An online directory
of local food from North Yorkshire. Features farmers, growers
and producers with recipes, events and the latest news from
this fabulous, food rich, county.
Wood
Crafts Pet & Poultry Housing Wood-Crafts
are a small company, supplying livestock, pet & poultry
housing to the public and trade. Their site enables customers
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MEAT |
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& PC Rose Sausages and many other pork products
from British Saddleback pigs, also boxes of beef from their
North Devon cattle.
Daylesford
Organics Their
online shop offers the finest food, straight from Daylesfords
organic fields and pastures. They farm to traditional methods,
caring deeply about animal welfare and sustainability.
BuyOstrichMeat.com Suppliers of quality British
ostrich products.
Cambrian
Organics - organic food from the Welsh hills A co-operative
of Welsh organic farmers selling organic lamb, organic pork
and organic beef direct from the Welsh hills to your door.
Secure server, on-line ordering or order on the phone. Visit
the farms on the website.
Carmichael
Estate Farm Meats Venison, beef and lamb reared
only on the Carmichael farm in Southern Scotland and slaughtered
and butchered at the farm gate meat plant.
Good
Food Pages Find the best local produce in the
UK, including organic, specialist, fairtrade and free-range
food and drink. Also lists farmers markets, events, cookery
books, recipes and more!
Small
Farms Organically Produced Food Organic
small farms with shop & camping in the Wye Valley producing
organic beef, lamb, pork, poultry and vegetables. We deliver
nationwide.
The
Wholesome Meat Company The Wholesome Meat Company
are a family run livestock farm breeding, rearing, growing
and promoting traditional rare and pure breed livestock.
They put the welfare and happiness of all their animals
above all else on their farm.
Top
Quality Beef & Lamb Direct from the Farm.
Fresh meat delivered direct to your doorstep. The breeds
chosen, rich pastures and totally natural diet provides
an unsurpassed depth of flavour.
Graig
Farm Organics Awarded Organic Retailer of the
Year for 2001/2 as judged in the Organic Food Awards. Having
been organic for 10 years, it is one of the pioneers of
organic meats and other foods. Their range includes meat,
fish, dairy, pies, bread, groceries, vegetables and fruit,
alcoholic drinks. All meat and dairy produce is produced
in the UK - as locally to Graig Farm (in the Heart of Wales)
as possible.
Grasmere
Farm Quality pork products from Grasmere Farm in
Lincolnshire with an online shop. Discover their range of
pork and bacon products, from pork chops and Grasmere Gruntas
to traditional short back bacon and hams.
Hook
Organic Meats Organically reared meat delivered
across the UK. The prime suppliers of organic produced Pembrokeshire
meats.
Jack
Scaife (Butcher's) Ltd. A Family run business
established in the 1890s who specialise in traditional dry
cured bacon and hams. No water! No whitespots! Just bacon
as it used to be!
Lilwall
Farm Buy half a pig direct from the Farm. The pigs
are reared on the farm and selected to produce the best
pork at a very reasonable price. Lilwall's Farm Pork also
cater for Hog Roast's. Cooked at a local bakery, they arrive
half an hour before your guests want to eat.
Organic
'Aran-Lamb' Bran Organic Lamb - From the Mountains
of Wales. Get the best 'Welsh Organic Lamb' direct from
the farm. Here is probably the best web-site to provide
your family with 'Real Welsh Organic Lamb'; delivered to
your kitchen door!
Organic
Meat
Supplying excellent quality fresh foods that
have been prepared with care, delivered reliably.
Somerset
Farm Direct In 1999 this family farm
decided that by cutting out the middle man and selling direct
they could assure the customer of fresh meat, from animals
that are well cared for and reared in traditional ways.
The
Whole Hog and Sauce specialise
in hog roasts from pigs produced on their own farm in South
Yorkshire.The meat is freshly carved into fresh bap with
home made Bramley apple sauce and stuffing.
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POULTRY |
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All
Year Round Birds scottish based breeder poultry
& waterfowl
hatching eggs,turkeys,quail,doves,bantams,guinea fowl,geese,ducks,large
fowl,incubators & equiptment.
The Ellel Free Range Poultry Company produce chickens,
guinea fowl and turkeys to obtain the highest standards for
your table of the finest flavour and texture.
Small
Farms Organically Produced Food Organic small
farms with shop & camping in the Wye Valley producing
organic beef, lamb, pork, poultry and vegetables. We deliver
nationwide.
The
Real Meat Co. For discerning, caring people who enjoy
eating meat and poultry, they have turned the priorities for
livestock rearing on their head. By putting welfare, purity
and eating quality first, and by remaining independent of
the supermarkets and the mainstream meat industry, they set
standards that fulfill all expectations. "Flavour without
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SMOKED
FOODS |
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Black
Mountains Smokery Traditionally
smoked fish, meats, poultry and cheeses. This is a family run
business offering a nation-wide mail order and gift service
as well as supplying wholesale to hotels, restaurants, pubs,
delicatessens, farm shops and caterers.
Finest
Quality Smoked Foods
Suppliers of the quality traditionally smoked poultry, game,
salmon, seafoods and meats. All guaranteed free from artificial
colourings, flavourings and preservatives. All foods deliciously
moist.
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SUPPORTING
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Food
& Farming Projects The Countryside Alliance's
new site provides information relating to food co-operatives,
box schemes, farm visits and other practical food initiatives.
The CA has worked extensively to develop a wide and varied
range of initiatives to improve eating habits, and raise awareness
of the benefits of fresh, local produce direct from farmers.
The
Soil Association The UK's leading campaigning and
certification organisation for organic food and farming. The
Soil Association's organic symbol is the UK's most recognisable
trademark for organic produce. Wherever you see it you can
be sure that the food you have purchased has been produced
and processed to strict and rigorous environmental and animal
welfare standards. Maintaining the link between healthy soil,
healthy food, healthy people.
Support
British GB Choice is a non-political group
committed to campaigning for clearly marked British produce.
They believe the public have the right to know the country
of origin of produce sold in their shops.
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of Auchtermuchty Information about farmed venison,
why it's good for you, where to buy it, how to cook it, and
some recipe ideas. This site has been created by the British
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