Welcome to Essex Local Produce

Essex Local Produce directory provides a listing for local, producers and homegrown produce within the county of Essex.

This blog will provide contact and listing information for selected companies and will act as a platform for reviews and shall generate further interest in local produce.

Thursday 31 March 2011

Calcott Hall Farm Shop



Calcott Hall Farm Shop

Calcott Hall Farm
Ongar Road
Brentwood
Essex
CM15 9HS

Telephone: (+44) 01277 264164
Email: info@calcotthall.com
Website: www.calcotthall.com


Calcott Hall is a family run business and our aim is to provide a pleasant and friendly shopping experience, very different from large supermarkets. We grow a wide range of vegetables and fruit and source locally whenever possible. We stock products from the Taste of Anglia food group and select for taste and quality.


Produce Available:


A family run working Farm and Farm Shop that offers a truly extensive range of fine locally produced food and drink within a large, beautifully restored barn. A quality greengrocer, butcher, deli, grocers and wine/beer off seller, all rolled into one. Seasonal, fresh produce at its best and all very reasonably priced. Excellent, friendly customer service. Highly recommended.

 meat counter

Opening Times:

Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Thursday: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Friday: 8.30am - 6.30pm
Saturday: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Sunday: 10.00am - 2.00pm

 farm shop

Spencer's Farm Shop



Spencer's Farm Shop
Wickham Fruit Farm
Wickham St Pauls

Essex

UK

CO9 2PX

Telephone: (+44) 01787 269 476
Email: www.spencersfarmshop.co.uk/contact-us
Website: www.spencersfarmshop.co.uk



Spencer's Farm are a family run Fruit Farm established 35 years ago in Essex, with Pick Your Own fruit and vegetables according to seasonal availability.

The Coffee Shop is open seven days a week if you fancy a nice relax, while in the Farm Shop their are over 900 specialist foods at your disposal - locally sourced wherever possible.

The Pick Your Own range is marvellous with a vast amount of fruit and vegetables available to buy already picked, or for you to come along and pick until your satisfied.

pick your own spencers

If you like Strawberries, the "Table Top Strawberries" are grown at waist height for ease of picking, otherwise many pick your own produce are available; such as:

Strawberries, Raspberries, Gooseberries, Red & Blackcurrants, Blackberries, Loganberries, Tayberries, Cherries, Plums, 18 varieties of Apples, Asparagus, Runner Beans, Courgettes, Pumpkins and Herbs.

The Farm Shop is exceptional with an amazing volume of local and home-made produce available to purchase all year round.

spencers farm shop

spencers farm shop 2

Farm Shop Produce: Fruit and Vegetables:

Seasonal soft fruit and vegetables (see table), with a large proportion of Strawberries now under cover, plus a wide variety of home grown Apples.

Fruit Pies & Crumbles:

Summer Pudding, Apple & Mincemeat, Raspberry & Almond and Raspberry & Marscapone Tarts.

Pies, Quiches, Lasagne & Pasties:

Thai Chicken, Chicken in Cream & Mushroom Sauce, Lamb with Apricot, Beef Bourguignon, Pheasant with Chestnuts, Venison Casserole, Wild Rabbit Casserole, Moussaka, Cottage Pie, Beef Lasagne and Vegetable Lasagne with Blue Cheese. Savoury Pies include Steak & Mushroom, Steak & Kidney, Game, Chicken & Mushroom, all produced with home-made pastry. A variety of Quiches, including vegetarian, are also available.

pies

Ice Cream:

A good selection of the award winning Hadley's and Farmer Bill's Ice Cream together with a range of Alder Carr Cream Ice - all delicious with our fruit pies and crumbles.

Meats:

Home reared pork from Lane Farm Country Foods and home reared Cratfield Beef from Suffolk, plus Pedigree Tilbury Meadow Beef from nearby Great Yeldham, as well as a selection of local poultry, lamb, sausages and bacon, are available.

Cheeses:

Deli Counter with over 40 specialist cheeses.

cheese selection

Pates:

A good selection of pates are available including Chicken, Pork, Duck, Pheasant, Venison, Smoked Fish & Salmon.

Fruit Juices:

The popular single variety apple juices, using their own apples, together with a selection of farm pressed fruit cordials and sparkling presses from Belvoir Fruit Farm, plus the award winning 'Big Tom' spiced Tomato Juice and such delights as Curiosity Cola and Victorian Lemonade!

Frozen Fruit, Vegetables, Bakery and Fish:

A good selection of loose frozen fruit and vegetables, also including Home Roast Potatoes, Hash Browns, Yorkshire Puddings, Breaded Garlic Mushrooms, Apple Turnovers, Croissants, Pain aux Raisin, Pain au Chocolat, Fish Cakes and Prawns.

Bread and Rolls

Chutney's, Pickles & Marmalades:

Delicious home made Fruit slabs, Fruit buns and Eccles cakes, all made in the farm shop kitchen, plus locally made sponge cakes, as well as a good range of hand-baked fruit and other cakes and a broad selection of sweet and savoury biscuits and hand-baked meringues.

Eggs

Honey:

Pure Essex Honey - Set, Clear and Comb, plus Suffolk Borage Honey

Snacks and Confectionary:

Gourmet snacks and nuts, including award winning 'Tyrrells' Potato Chips, the only U.K. small chip maker to grow and produce potato chips, giving extra crispiness! Plus a range of traditional sweets and confectionary.

Oils & Vinegars:

Premium range of flavoured olive oils and vinegars using high quality ingredients.

Sauces, Dressings and Marinades:

A comprehensive selection of popular sauces, dressings and marinades including a wide selection from Swayfen Herbs plus the Earls Colne based Simply Delicious organic range.

sauces jams oils vinegars

Olives:

Anti-pasti and a selection of green and black fresh olives are available, plus semi-dried tomatoes and pesto.

Game:

Game -'wild'-meat naturally harvested from farms and estates in Suffolk, including Venison, Rabbit and Pigeon, plus Game Pie mix.

Smoked Fish:

A high quality range of smoked fish is available from Butley Oysterage - Pinneys of Orford - including Prawns, Salmon, Haddock, Mackerel, Kippers, Sardines, Trout, Eel & Pate.

Puddings:

Coles Traditional Steamed Puddings in individual microwavable packs - including Spotted Dick, Treacle, Sticky Toffee, Ginger & Orange and Chocolate.

Vegetarian:

A range of Patés, Humous and Falafels from locally based Leeora Vegetarian Foods


Spencer's has the most fantastic product range, I couldn't recommend it more.

Monday 28 March 2011

Blackwells Farm Produce




Blackwells Farm Produce

Blackwells Farm Produce
Herons Farm
Colne Road
Coggeshall
Colchester
Essex
CO6 ITQ
Telephone: (+44) 01376 562500
Email: howard@blackwellsfarmproduce.co.uk
Website: www.blackwellsfarmproduce.co.uk

The Blackwell family has been farming in the Coggeshall area for four generations. For many years they have concentrated on traditional farm fresh geese and turkeys for the Christmas market, and in 2004 set up the Rare Breed Meat Company to service leading butchers and food halls directly seeking high quality locally produced meat for which they could provide full providence back to the source.

Their main produce includes pork, beef, poultry, seasonal game, pheasants, partridges, geese, chicken, turkey.

 raw meat

While they also offer a number of locally sourced products in their traditional farm shop such as:


 bread

The Traditional Farm Shop brings the best of locally produced seasonal food and drink as well as our own farm produce in one convenient location, and is open to the public on a daily basis.

Opening Times:

Mon- Fri: 8am to 6pm
Sat: 8am to 4pm
Sun: 10am to 3pm

Thursday 24 March 2011

Cammas Hall Fruit Farm



Cammas Hall Fruit Farm


Needham Green
Hatfield Broad Oak

Nr. Bishops Stortford

Essex / Hertfordshire

CM22 7JT

Telephone: (+44) 01279718570

Email: paula@jmlukies.co.uk
Website: www.chff.co.uk


Cammas Hall Fruit Farm is a fruit farm situated on the Hertfordshire/Essex border offering personal and wholesale catering supplies of fresh fruit & vegetables and seasonal venison.

The farm is run by the Lukies family and has been for the last 125 years. As one of the pioneering 'Pick You Own' farms in the mid 1960's, Cammas Hall Fruit Farm has always prided itself on supplying the freshest fruit, of the highest quality, direct to their local consumers.

Cammas Hall offers Strawberries, Blackcurrants, Raspberries, Wild Venison, Corn, Blackberries, Blueberries, Gooseberries

 fresh fruit

Opening Times:

Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 6pm

The owner is a family friend of mine and I have visited this pick your own farm on several occassions with friends and family. It is a fantastic summer day out and some of the produce is exquisite and very fairly priced. If you haven't tried pick your own before I heartily endorse giving it a try.

 pick your own fruit

Cole's Traditional Foods



Cole's Traditional Foods

Cole's Traditional Foods Station Approach
Great Chesterford
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB10 1PG
UK


Telephone: (+44) 01799 531053
Email: sales@colestrad.co.uk
Website:
www.christmaspudding.com
www.colestrad.co.uk
Online Shop: www.colestrad.co.uk/shop/


Cole’s Traditional Foods formerly A.J.Cole Est. 1939, started in 1979 in a craft bakery in the market town of Saffron Walden.

Cole's business ethos was, and still is, to produce products of the highest standards from recipes and methods used in bygone years and, with a little help from modern thinking and technology, aim to continue to bring both traditional and innovative products to today’s discerning customers.

 puddings


Cole's specialize in Cakes, Ice Cream and Christmas Pudding

 pudding

Woodford Meats Farm Shop



Woodford Meats Farm Shop

Woodford Meats
Bolt Hall Farm
Larkhill Road
Canewdon
Rochford

Essex
SS4 3SA

Telephone: (+44) 01702 258233
Email:
.info@woodfordmeats.co.uk
Website: www.woodfordmeats.co.uk


Bolt Hall Farm is a mixed arable and beef cattle farm which has been owned by the Woodford family since 1961.

Woodford Meats provides Beef, Lamb, Pork, Poultry, Game, Pheasant and Duck in the traditional way with the proviso that the animals are all raised in the natural way through salt marsh grazing while being fed on homegrown grain and straw.

 lamb cutlets

The products sourced are guaranteed quality locally produced produce, free range and free from GM and growth promoters.

 beef