Links to farmers selling at London markets
Farmers and producers websites. All sell with London Farmers' Markets.
Find out more about their products and place orders.
Cheese and dairy - All cheese makers are farmers and make cheese
from their own milk.
www.buffalo-cheese.co.uk
Cheese from one of the only organic buffalo herds in the country.
Frances milks the cows and makes a fantastic range of soft and hard
cheeses. Buffalo meat is also available. Alham Wood cheeses can
be found at most markets.
Fruit, Fruit Juice and Alcoholic drinks
www.applejuicedirect.com
Not just the juice but also the fruit that goes into it. You will
find Chegworth Valley fruit at most markets each week with a full
range of soft fruit, apples and pears not to mention delicious pies
and award winning juice.
www.ciderbrandy.co.uk
The Somerset Cider Brandy company produce apple juice and cider
from their own orchards. The cider is also distilled into brandy.
Look out for them at markets from time to time.
www.dorset-blueberry.co.uk
The only specialist blueberry grower in the country, they can barely
grow enough to keep up with demand. Look out for their fruit, juice
and baked goods at many of the markets.
Honey
www.swarms.net
This site is intended to support police and local authorities by
making available a comprehensive listing of Associations and Beekeepers
who will collect Honey Bee Swarms.
www.bees.co.uk
Mike Gill a Twickenham apiarist sells his own honey and related
products once a month at Twickenham market.
www.beesplease.co.uk
The London Honey Company sell honey and related products from their
hives located in Barnes, Regents Park, Tower Hill & Greenwich.
Meat, Poultry and Game
www.leehousefarm.co.uk
Lee House Farm is a small mixed organic farm registered with the
Soil Association, producing rare breed pork, sausages, bacon, lamb,
turkey, eggs, vegetables and beef.
www.cothivalleygoats.co.uk
Fully traceable kid meat direct from the farm, naturally reared
in the traditional way. All cuts available, also sausages and burgers.
www.grasmere-farm.co.uk
Pork products from Cambridgeshire. A huge range of sausages using
their own seasonings and secret recipes plus bacon, pork joints
and a range of cooked products including hams, pies and pates.
www.manorfarmgame.co.uk
Seasonal fresh game from Buckinghamshire. They also specialise in
poultry including the famous Aylesbury Duck. Out of season stored
game is processed into a range of delicious game pies and sausages.
www.sheepdrove.com
A full range of organic meats are available at Notting Hill every
fortnight. Leaders in organic farming, Sheepdrove also have farm
open days. A mail order service is available.
Plants and Flowers
www.long-barn.co.uk
Long Barn, Hampshire based Lavender growers attend markets seasonally
with products based on their lavender plus bunches of sensational
fresh and dried flowers.
www.pioneerplants.com
A professional nursery in Hertfordshire growing an amazing variety
of plants. They also provide useful information on planting and
design.
www.realflowers.co.uk
Based in Hampshire, Real Flower Company attend Pimlico from June-September.
They also send sumptuous hand tied bouquets of the finest scented
garden roses nationwide. These bouquets are complemented by fresh
herbs including Rosemary, Oregano and Thyme. The combination of
scent, texture and colour make these the most original and sensual
flowers bouquets available. Order online or by telephone on 01962
771548.
Vegetables & Salad leaves
www.asparagus-in-kent.co.uk
Michael Bourne asparagus grower, sells with us in season
www.ashlynsorganicfarm.co.uk
Local growers from Ongar in Essex. Soil Association certified, look
out for Ashlyns at Palmers Green through most of the year with a
full range of vegetables.
www.hortihalcyon-organic.co.uk
Soil association certified, Halcyon sells her organic vegetables,
salads & preserves at Wimbledon every week.
www.sunnyfields.co.uk
From their farm in Hampshire the Nelson family sell a great range
of top class organic vegetables at Notting Hill and Marylebone markets
each week. Look out for their seasonal vegetable mountains and great
tasting carrots.
www.halcyonseeds.co.uk.
Richard Bartlett grows lovely salad leaves, from wild rocket to
tat soi. He sells at Islington & runs the Halcyon Seeds Growers
Club, providing informed, practical advice on the growing of salad
leaves, herbs, and vegetables.
Bakers
www.flourishbakery.com
A popular bakers found at Notting Hill and Pimlico Road markets
each week selling breads, savouries - viennoisserie & fairy
cakes. They also supply many London shops including Harrods and
Tom's Deli.
www.oldpostofficebakery.co.uk
Organic bakery, selling at Marylebone. The bakery started in a closed
Post Office in Lyham Road in Clapham in 1982. They believe in producing
nutritious and wholesome bread at an affordable price, and continuously
experiment with recipes and traditional techniques from various
countries to produce goods of the highest quality and taste.
Links to farmers' markets / food related sites
The Natural Gourmet
The Natural Gourmet is a young company specializing in made-to-order
gift hampers featuring fabulous fresh produce sourced at farmers'
markets. A personal shopping service is also available. The founder,
Eva Barkasz, is a manager at Pimlico Farmers' Market where she finds
many of her favourite hamper ideas.
www.naturalgourmet.co.uk
Slow Food
Slow Food is a movement for the protection of the right to taste.
The Ark of Taste is a first step in this direction. The aim of this
massive project is to identify and catalogue (alas increasingly
often) products, dishes and animals that are in danger of disappearing.
The operational offshoots of the project are the so-called Slow
Food Presidia, through which the association provides economic support
and a media back-up to groups and individuals pledged to saving
an Ark product. To provide public recognition for all this work,
the Slow Food Award has been introduced, the first edition of which
was held in Bologna in October 2000.
Local groups organizes food and wine events and initiatives, raise
the profile of products and promotes local artisans and wine cellars.
They also organize tasting courses and Taste Workshops and promulgates
new food and wine developments and knowledge of the products and
cuisines of other areas.
www.slowfood.com
River Cottage
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's informative website. As he says, it's
about food, where it comes from, and why that matters.
www.rivercottage.net
farm
farm is a campaigning and membership organisation, fighting for
a viable future for independent and family farms.
www.farm.org.uk
Growing Communities
Growing Communities is a North London organisation set up to make
a positive contribution towards sustainable development. By working
together on a range of local projects, including Neighbourhood Food
Growing Project and a local Organic Vegetable Box Scheme, they hope
to improve the food they eat, the community they live in and the
environment. They organize the weekly farmers' market in Stoke Newington.
www.growingcommunities.org
Local Food Works exists to foster sustainable local food
systems through the development of local food networks.
www.localfoodworks.org
Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a
unique role in the arts and environmental fields, distinguished
by the linking of nature with culture, focussing upon the positive
investment people can make in their own localities, championing
popular democratic involvement, and by inspiring celebration as
a starting point for action to improve the quality of our everyday
places. We offer ideas, information and inspiration through publications
and projects such as Field Days, Parish Maps, Flora Britannica,
Apple Day, Community Orchards, Tree Dressing Day, Confluence and
the campaign for Local Distinctiveness.
www.commonground.org.uk
View London
Great food pages on London, including lists of top food shops, quality
butchers and farmers' markets.
www.viewlondon.co.uk
www.rickstein.com
lists a directory of local food producers around the country many
of whom sell at our markets.
Growers' Connection
Books & online resource for small farm marketing & farmers'
markets, as well as links to a wide variety of small farm sustainable
resources.
www.nwpub.net
National Association of Farmers' Markets
The Farm Retail Association and National Association of Farmers'
Markets are merging. From 2 January 2004 you can contact
the Farm Retail Association and the National Association of Farmers'
Markets at:
P O Box 575, Southampton S015 7BZ
Tel: 0845 230 2150
Fax: 023 8036 2150
e-mail: info@farmshopping.com
The NAFM website: www.farmersmarkets.net
And the FRA website: www.farmshopping.com
will remain in place.
BigBarn
BigBarn is like an on-line Farmers' Market. You simply type in your
postcode. A map of your area appears, showing local producers and
what they sell. Register with BigBarn for special offers from your
local farms.
www.bigbarn.co.uk
Soil Association
www.soilassociation.org
London Market Guide
www.metropublications.com
Countrylovers
www.countrylovers.co.uk
London Rural News Network
For the best farming and related rural issues in Greater London,
including more on farmers' markets, visit the London Rural News
Network.
www.lrnn.co.uk
Fresh Food Company
Fresh, speciality, organic, and wild harvested foods delivered from
the
producer to your door. They have a mesmerising range of over 4,000
lines of organic foods - more than all the supermarkets together.
All the organic food is certified to EU standards and 70% of the
fresh food is grown in Britain. The Fresh Food Company also sells
cookery books and low toxicity baby and personal care and household
products.
www.freshfood.co.uk
Real Produce links you to speciality independent food producers.
Buy online from producers all over the country, or find locally
produced foods in your own county.
www.realproduce.co.uk
Rowan Tree Goats - Goats Milk, Soft Goats Cheese in plain,
chives, apricot, cranberry, and cracked pepper.
www.rowantreegoats.co.uk
The Food Commission is the UK's leading independent watchdog
on food issues.
www.foodcomm.org.uk
Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates
food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health
and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living
environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.
www.sustainweb.org
The Parents Jury is an independent body set up to judge
children's foods and drinks. It currently has a membership of over
800 concerned parents. To join:
www.parentsjury.org
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Links to Relevant US Sites
The American Farmland Trust
www.farmland.org
The Council on the Environment of New York City
www.cenyc.org
The Agricultural Marketing Service
www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets
Eatwild - Why grass-fed beef, lamb, dairy, eggs & poultry
is better for the animals and for you.
www.eatwild.com
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