Ravens Bakery & Speciality Cakes

Ravens Bakery is located in the high street, Ingatestone, it is owned by the second generation of this family. They have won the ‘Baker of the Year’ award 2008 in the Essex Chronicle Food and Drink Award.
All of the produce on sale is prepared and baked in house using the finest of natural ingredients sourced as locally as possible.

There is freshly baked bread from the popular low GI multiseed loaf to a wide choice of rolls, delicious melt in the mouth pastries from a selection of Danish to freshly baked croissants. The multitude of cakes, buns, scones and slices will leave you deliberating, the fresh cream slice, a delightfully decorated cupcake or go for an all indulgent doughnut.













You can also order your cake for any celebration, Birthdays, Christenings, and Weddings.













Address -
Head Office
68 High Street
Ingatestone
Essex
CM4 9DW

Opening times -
Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri: 6am - 5pm
Wed and Sat: 6am - 3pm
Telephone number - 01277 352667
Web address - www.ravensbakery.co.uk
Email - info@ravensbakery.co.uk

Gilberts Bakery Specialists

Gilberts Bakery Specialists is located on the London road in Leigh on sea, owned by the hill family for over 50 years.
Nothing tastes better than traditionally baked bread, cakes or pastries, cooked in small batches with the care and attention that larger ‘establishments’ seem to have left behind.

The shop has a good selection of wonderful of hand made tasting freshly baked, rolls, baguettes, pastries, buns and delicious, light, fresh cream cakes.

Their specialties is yeast free white, wholemeal and cracked wheat breads, rye bread and spelt bread loaves. You can also buy the frozen breads, if you have to travel a distance, as well as pastry cook and freshly prepares wonderful light pastry in house, and you can buy freshly baked sweet and savoury filled pastries to eat now.













Contact:

Address -
1155 LONDON ROAD
LEIGH-ON-SEA
Essex
SS9 3JE

Opening times -
Tues to Fri: 8am - 5pm
Sat: 8.15am- 5pm
Telephone number - 01702 474 804
Web address - www.gilbertsbakery.co.uk

The Rare Breed Meat Company

The Rare Breed Meat Company is located in Coggeshall, they specialise in meat from rare and traditional breed, free range animals.
They believe wholeheartedly in the traditional rearing of animals, allowing them to mature at the pace which nature dictates, rather than feeding them growth promoters or hormones.






The result of this method is meat that tastes and cooks as it should, no watery residue or shrinking to half its original size when cooked.

The fine grained succulent and tender pork with crackling that is crisp and crunchy.
21 day aged beef that is juicy, flavoursome and just melts in the mouth.
Lamb that is succulently sweet and has a rich depth of flavour.






Contact:

Address -
Herons Farm
Colne Road
Coggeshall
Colchester
Essex
CO6 ITQ

Telephone number - 01376 561504
Web address - www.therarebreedmeatcompany.co.uk
Email

Holts of Witham

Holts of Witham is located in Newland street, Witham. They never compromised their standards of providing high quality meat and produce sourced as locally as possible from trusted, traditional farmers.

Holts has now adapted to modern needs, if you don't have time to go in the shop, you can alway go to their website to shop online.
In the shop, their are beautiful and enticing array of excellent meat, home smoked produce and homemade pie are carefully arranged in shiny modern display units.













The high quality produce from succulent and tender Dedham vale beef to naturally reared, flavoursome Creedy Carver Poultry from Devon, to in-house traditionally smoked Salmon from the West coast of Scotland.













Contact:

Address -
88 Newland street
Witham
Essex
CM8 1AH

Telephone number - 01376 513230
Web address - www.holtsofwitham.co.uk

Spencers Farm Shop

Spencers Farm Shop located in Wickham, the family has run the fruit farm about 35 years ago, with pick your own fruit and vegetables according to seasonal availability.

There is also a relaxing environment coffee shop with views over the farm is open 7 days a week and have over 900 specialist foods. Provide the farm shop with ready meals, soups, seasonal fruit pies and crumbles, cakes and chutneys.











The farm shop have a large range of local and homemade produce, including meat, cheese, bread, ice cream, cakes, honey, farm pressed apply juice, Jams and Preserves, Frozen Fruit and Vegetables.








Contact:

Address -
Wickham Fruit Farm
Wickham St Pauls
Essex
UK
CO9 2PX

Opening times -

June to August
Mon to Sat: 9am - 6pm
Sun & Bank holidays 10am to 5pm

September to May
Mon to Sat: 9am - 5.30pm
Sun & Bank holidays 10am to 4pm

Telephone number - 01787 269 476
Web address - www.spencersfarmshop.co.uk
Email

BEATBUSH ORGANIC FARM

BEATBUSH ORGANIC FARM is located in Latchingdon, owned and run by Toby and Nicola Bulgin. They produce and sell the finest organic meat and related products in Essex and the surrounding counties.

They have organic stocks from beef and lamb to turkey and geese










Contact:

Address -
BEATBUSH ORGANIC FARM.
BROOK HALL FARM,
LATCHINGDON,
ESSEX
CM3 6LB

Telephone number - 01621 741470
Web address - www.beatbushorganicfarm.co.uk
Email -nicola@beatbushorganicfarm.co.uk

Sarah Green's Organics

Sarah Green's Organics is situated on the peaceful marshes of the Dengie Peninsula in essex. They are passionate about growing delicious organic, seasonal vegetables, from aubergines to onions and cabbages to courgettes.

No chemicals are used to kill weeds or insects, the frame provides a natural habitat in which wildlife can thrive. Everything is done by hand, ploughinhg, planting, hoeing and harvesting.

Fresh vegetables are provided every week of the year, there are varied range of seasonal produce throughout the four seasons, it is available though the weekly box scheme, farm shops, stoke newington organic framers market, london, first and third Saturday of the month 10am to 2.30pm and Burnham on Crouch Farmers Market, the third sunday of the month at Carnival Hall 9am to 12.30pm.















Contact:

The Hall Farm
North Street
Tillingham
Essex
CM0 7ST

Telephone number - 01621 778844
Web address - www.sarahgreensorganics.co.uk
Email

Lathcoats Farm Shop
Galleywood, Chelmsford. CM2 8LX
Tel: 01245 353021

'Peafs' at Lubbards Farm Shop
Hullbridge Road, Rayleigh, SS6 9QG

Green's
74 High Street, Maldon. CM9 5ET
Tel: 01621 854727