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

Fruit & Veg

Fruit & Veg are a family bussiness established almost 100 years in the fruit and vegatable industry and can promise the very best produce. They work to the highly recognised HACCP standard.








When you became a customer you can have access to the regular market report where the buyer will make produce updates on seasonality, availability, price, and quality to help you plan your menu.

They have large stocks from fruit, vegetables, nut and mushroom to dairy product, frozen produce, herbs and spices.







Contact:

Address -
Rail Arch 34,
New Covent Garden Market,
London,
SW8 5NX

Telephone number - 0808 141 2828
Web address - www.fruitandveg.co.uk/
Email -info@fruitandveg.co.uk

Cammas Hall Fruit Farm

Cammas Hall Fruit Farm is located between the villages of Hatfield Broad Oak and White Roding.
The farm is run by the Lukies family and has been for the last 125 years. They supply the freshest fruit of the highest quality direct to their local consumers, also the soft fruit for V.I.P.'s at the V-Fest Chelmsford 2009 are supplied by them.



















You can pick your own or purchase freshly picked produce in the hut or a large functions, such as weddings, garden parties or music festivals.












Family can come to the beautiful and tranquil contryside, they have plenty of car parking space, walks area and toilet facilities, as well as a large picnic area, so you can sit down and enjoy the freshly picked fruit with the beautiful countryside around you.















Contact:

Address -
Needham Green
Hatfield Broad Oak
Nr. Bishops Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM22 7JT

Opening times -
Tues to Sun: 9am - 6pm
Telephone number - 01279 718777
Web address - www.chff.co.uk
Email -paula@jmlukies.co.uk

Primrose Pork

Primrose Pork is located in Great Bromley, Colchester, all the pigs are born outside in the essex countryside, grow at there own rate as nature intended and reared to high welfare standards.
No hormones or use anti-biotics are used, they are fed on a high quality traditional ration. This makes the pork more tender succulent.










In the shop, there are wide selection of fresh and frozen pork can be purchased.















Contact:

Address -
Primrose Farm
Hall Road
Great Bromley
Colchester
Essex
CO7 7TR

Opening times -
Fri to Sat: 10am - 4pm
Telephone number - 01206 303956
Web address - www.primrosepork.uwclub.net
Email - Robertmossfreepigs @uwclub.net

Colchester Oyster Fishery

Colchester Oyster Fishery is located on Mersea island, 8 miles south of Colchester town. It is one of the UK leading suppliers of fresh shellfish.

They sell two type of oysters, Native and Rock oysters. All of the oysters are cleaned and purged for at least 42 hours in the fisheries purification system, where they receive a constant stream of fresh sea water passed through a UV filter.
Native oysters have a creamy flesh with a distinctive fresh sea flavour and firm texture. The rock oysters have a cultivate rich, subtley nutty and fresh sea flavour from the mineral and plankton rich sea beds.













The fishery also specialises in high quality fresh, sweet and meaty lobster and crab with beautifully sweet and ample white meat and firm, flavoursome brown meat.

Contact:

Address -
Pyefleet Quay,
Mersea Island,
Colchester,
Essex
CO5 8UN

Telephone number - +44 (0)1206 384141
Web address - www.colchesteroysterfishery.com
Email - info@colchesteroysterfishery.com

Butterfly Lodge - Caprilatte Ice Cream

Butterfly Lodge Dairy are located in Abberton, 5 miles south of Colchester on the Mersea Road.
The ice cream are made from the finest goats milk and goats double cream, in small, carefully controlled batches on the farm. There are 36 flavours to choose from, and without the use of artificial colours, additivies or preservatives.













The goats milk ice cream is lower in fat, cholesterol and lactose, as well as being easier to digest than cow milk ice cream. The taste are silky smooth, indulgently creamy and sumptuously moreish.

Contact:

Address -
Mersea Road
Abberton
Colchester
Essex
CO5 7LG
Opening times -
Mon to Sat: 9am to 5.30pm
Sun: 11am to 4pm
Telephone number - 01206 736121
Web address - www.caprilatteicecream.co.uk
Email -info@caprilatteicecream.co.uk

Little Mountains Farm

Little Mountains Farm are owned by the Mann family in Great Totham, Maldon since 1952.
At Little Mountains, they grow width range of produce, from soft fruits, cereals to new potatoes and keeping livestock. Some of the cereals they grow go to feeding the livestock. All this produce are sold on the farm.







The turkeys are breed and rear in the farm, they are kept in airy pole barns with plenty of fresh straw and protected from adverse weather conditions.

Contact:

Address -
Little Mountains Farm
Mountains Road
Great Totham
Maldon
Essex
CM9 8BY

Opening times -
7 days a week
Telephone number - 01621 891215
Web address -littlemountainsfarm.co.uk
Email - info@littlemountainsfarm.co.uk

Lathcoats Farm shop

Lathcoats farm are owned and run by the Taylor family in Galleywood, Chelmsford.
At Lathcoats, they have a large stocks of fresh, locally produced, seasonal food and drink.

The large selection from freshly baked bread and rolls, free range eggs, excellent locally farmed meat, fruit and vegetables, freshly cooked pies and pastries, smoked and fresh fish, the farms own pressed freshly apple juices, and whole range of dried, frozen and preserved produce.


In the summer months of June to August you can pick your own fresh soft fruits on the farm, from raspberries, strawberries, plums to cherries, blackcurrants and redcurrants.
Children will also love to visit the farms menagerie of animals.














Contact:

Address -
Beehive Lane
Galleywood
Chelmsford Essex UK
CM2 8LX

Opening times -
Mon to Thu & Sat: 9am - 5pm
Fri: 9am - 6pm
Sundays: 10am - 4pm
Closed on Bank Holidays
Telephone number - 01245 353021
Web address - www.eapples.co.uk
Email - info@eapples.co.uk
PYO season usually Mid June to end July

Wicks Manor Farm

The Wicks Manor farm is a pig farming business in Tolleshunt Major, Maldon. Their animals have lived a stress free existence, strict regulations of Fram Assured British Meat.
Their meat are full flavoured, fine textured succulent cuts of meat that cook and taste well, which has been nationally recognised and awarded in 2008.












Amongst their products are bacons that are smoked with a blend of oak and beech woodchips and dry-cured by hand with a blend of curing salts and Demerara sugar. Sausages that have no added fat, made with hand-boned shoulder filled into natural skins. Also try out succulent hams and gammons that are full flavoured.

Contact:

Address -
Howies & Sons LLP
Wicks Manor
Witham Road
Tolleshunt Major
Maldon
Essex CM9 8JU

Opening times -
Mon to Fri: 10am to 5.30pm
Sat: 9am to 5.30pm
Telephone number - 01621 860629
Web address - www.wicksmanor.com
Email - fergushowie@wicksmanor.co.uk