A 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 from the highlands and lowlands of rural Britain.
INDEX
Supporting Organisations Meat from the Farm
Cheesemakers Smoked foods
Traditional Cidermakers Poultry
Venison Help for Producers
Farm Shops  
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ONLINE MARKETS & GUIDES
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.
CHEESE

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.

CIDERS
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

FARM SHOPS
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.

FISH
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.
HELP & IDEAS FOR PRODUCERS
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 to see the products and to order directly.
MEAT

AP & 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.

POULTRY
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 Equal, Welfare without Compromise".
SMOKED FOODS
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.
SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS
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.

VENISON
Fletchers 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 Deer Farmers Association on behalf of its members.

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