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A GUIDE TO LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD A GUIDE TO LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD A GUIDE TO LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD A GUIDE TO LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD

IN WYCOMBE AND THE SURROUNDING IN WYCOMBE AND THE SURROUNDING IN WYCOMBE AND THE SURROUNDING IN WYCOMBE AND THE SURROUNDING

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Contents

P2: Contents, Introduction & “Why Buy Local” P3 & 4: How to use this guide P5 thru 17: Listings: Central, West & North P18 & 19: Map P20 thru 31: Listings: North (cont), East, South & Any Area P32: “Cows In The High Street” by Celia Carter P33 & 34: Local Food in Action P35: Acknowledgements

Introduction Food On Our Doorstep is your guide to locally-produced food within a radius of 10 miles or so of High Wycombe town centre. It lists the farmers and growers who sell direct to the public or via local outlets; and other food businesses (processors, retailers and caterers) who actively seek to source produce and ingredients locally. It is hoped that bringing together this information into one place will overcome one of the barriers to enjoying locally-produced food – not knowing what is available.

Why Buy Locally Produced Food? Buying locally will:

• enable you to know more about how your food is grown and reared

• provide greater influence over the animal welfare and environmental standards being used

• contribute to the viability of rural businesses and the local economy generally

• help sustain the land management practices that make our Chilterns landscape special

• help stem and reverse the decline in local food production, in readiness for the time when many believe local communities will again be more self-sufficient.

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How To Use This Guide/ Key To Entries To enable users to find truly local suppliers the listing has been divided into five geographical sections (see map on centre pages). We have also made use of symbols to assist you should you be looking for a particular category of food or business. However, we recommend you read the full description in order to appreciate the full range and diversity of what businesses offer.

The format of each entry is as follows:

• Business name

• Address and contact details

• A description of what makes the business special

• Symbols denoting type of business, as follows:

PP “Primary Producer” – Farmer / grower, where the product is grown / reared locally (for example meat, vegetables) and must be available direct from the producer or through local outlets. Some processing may be involved.

SP “Secondary Producer” - Manufacturer / processor, where the final product arises from a significant level of processing, but at least one of the ingredients is grown or reared within the defined area (for example pickles, jams, meat products). The final product must be available direct from the producer or through local outlets.

Producers will also have one or more of these three codes appended:

• ON On-site sales – products available from producer’s address, subject to hours of opening etc.

• OF Off-site sales via other outlets

• OM Other sales methods – see description

FS Farm shop – a shop located on a farm selling the farm’s own produce, plus often a range of other products from other local producers

FM Farmers Market or Local Produce Market where local producers have their own stalls

BX Box scheme or other home delivery format

SH Other shop or retail outlet, where there is clear evidence that the business actively seeks to source products / ingredients as locally as possible

CT Catering business including pubs, restaurants, cafés, home-catering, where there is clear evidence that the business actively seeks to source products / ingredients as locally as possible.

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(For the last two categories products / ingredients may thus legitimately come from beyond the coverage area.)

Symbols denoting main categories of locally-produced food, and other special features of the business, as follows:

A Beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks

B Bread, cakes, biscuits and other baked goods

C Chocolates and other confectionery

D Dairy products, including milk, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream etc

E Eggs

F Fish

H Honey

J Fruit juices and other non-alcoholic drinks

M Meat and meat products

N Not meaningful to specify particular food categories – for example a catering business with a culture of local sourcing

P Preserves, for example jams, chutneys etc

R Cereals, flour, pasta, vegetable oils and seeds

S Soups

V Vegetables, fruit, herbs and mushrooms

ORG At least some products are certified organic

HDE Home deliveries or home catering offered

OLS On-line sales facility

PYO Pick Your Own facility

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The Listing CENTRAL

Beechdean Dairy Old House Farm, North Dean, HP14 4NL Tel: 01494 563980 Web: www.beechdean.co.uk Since 1989 Beechdean have been producing ice cream and are now one of the UK’s leading ice cream manufacturers. Beechdean ice cream is produced on the family’s farm in the Chilterns. The company currently produces 8 million litres of ice cream a year and is proud of its range which is free from artificial colourings, flavourings or additives, suitable for vegetarians and gluten-free. Available from farm shop (open 10-4), and many local and national outlets, plus theatres, leisure sites and a number of pubs and restaurants. SP ON OF FS D Bruce and Deradour Stony Green Farm, Hampden Road, Prestwood, HP16 0JA Tel: 07769 746323 Web: www.bruceandderadour.co.uk Our KellyBronze Christmas turkeys are reared in the Chiltern Hills where they roam fields and hedgerows during the day and shelter in straw barns at night. Their feed is free from additives, growth promoters, drugs and, of course, GM. Order by post, phone or e-mail, then collect. PP OM M Castlemans Farm Green Common Lane, Wooburn Common, HP10 0LH Tel: 01628 523580 / 07900 886459 Web: www.castlemansfarm.com We produce home-reared, free-range pork, beef and lamb. We also sell game, organic poultry, cream, eggs, vegetables and salad crops, and seasonal fruit from our own or other local farms. Farm shop open daily 8-7. We also attend Beaconsfield and Little Chalfont Farmers Markets. PP ON OF FS D E M V ORG Deb's Cakes Penn Tel: 01494 814705 Homemade cakes to order, using organic, locally sourced ingredients as far as possible. Supplies gluten-free cakes and birthday/celebration cakes decorated with fresh fruit and flowers. Not wedding cakes. Free home delivery up to 1 mile, thereafter 50p/mile or collect by arrangement. Also at Prestwood Farmers Market and some Food Fairs. To order, contact by phone no. above or by e-mail to [email protected]. SP OF OM B HDE

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Emmetts Farm Shop Wilton Farm, Marlow Road, Little Marlow, SL7 3RR Tel: 01628 484094 Web: At our farm shop we offer home-grown vegetables (including early summer asparagus), local free-range eggs, traditional locally-baked fresh bread, cheese, rare breed meat, and much much more. Our aim is to provide local quality produce, and products not normally available in the supermarkets. At Christmas we raise free-range geese and turkeys. Open Mon-Sat 9-5.30, Sun 10-4. PP ON FS B D E M V Jack's Eggs 53 Sedgmoor Road, Flackwell Heath, HP10 9AW Tel: 07917 011893 Free-range eggs from local smallholding. Pork and chicken available on occasions. Please ring in advance to check availability. PP OM E M Laceys Family Farm Bolter End Farm, Lane End, HP14 3LP Tel: 01494 881979 Web: www.laceysfamilyfarm.co.uk The Lacey family have been farming in South Bucks for seven generations. We've had our pedigree herd of Guernsey cows since the 1930s, producing high-quality milk with a distinctive golden colour. In 2006 we took the step of investing in equipment so that we could pasteurise our own milk. You can now buy milk directly from our farm which could have been taken from the cow that very day! Our farm shop also stocks Laceys cream and eggs, some home-grown vegetables in season, and other local produce. We also supply many local outlets and can deliver to your door within a limited area. PP ON OF OM FS D E H J P V HDE

Hughenden Manor High Wycombe, HP14 4LA Tel: 01494 755573 Web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hughendenmanor Owned by The National Trust. Garden, shop and café open mid-Feb to mid-Dec Wed-Sun (daily during school holidays). Explore our flourishing walled garden and get advice on how to 'grow your own'. Home-grown produce from the walled garden is used in many café dishes, so we're talking food inches, not food miles! We also use local suppliers such as eggs from Hard to Find Farm. Apples from the orchard are sold on Apple Days. PP ON CT N V

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NV Wholesome Perkins, Finings Road, Lane End, HP14 3EU Tel: 01494 882002 We produce a range of jams, jellies, marmalades and chutneys using home-grown and locally-sourced ingredients as much as possible, including chutneys containing Rebellion Brewery beer. We avoid the use of unnecessary additives of any sort including colourants, gelling agents and preservatives. Our products are sold at Laceys, Little Marlow Farm Shop, Rebellion Brewery and a number of local community shops. SP OF P Peterley Manor Farm Peterley Lane, Prestwood, HP16 0HH Tel: 01494 863566 Web: www.peterleymanorfarm.co.uk The farm uses traditional farming methods where possible, growing produce for our shop and 'Pick Your Own'. It has always been our aim to sell direct to the public ensuring that locals can buy quality, fresh, value-for-money produce. The shop stocks a very wide range of products sourced from our own farm (much of the fruit and vegetables, plus freshly-pressed apple juice), or from other, mostly local, producers (free range eggs, honey, traditional jams, marmalades and chutneys, hand-made meringues and cakes, ice cream, English cheese and ham and dry cured bacon and much much more). The ‘Pick Your Own’ season begins in June with strawberries, gooseberries and broad beans continuing until October with a wide selection of fruit and vegetables including raspberries, cherries, blackcurrants, peas, spinach, beetroot, plums, carrots, apples and runner beans. Telephone for crop availability. There is also a plant nursery. Open Tue-Sat 8.30-5, Sun 9-1. PP ON FS B D E H J P S V PYO Phil Bowditch Wilton Farm, Marlow Road, Little Marlow, SL7 3RR Tel: 01628 483635 We are a butcher and fishmonger with our own smokehouse. Our pork and lamb comes from Woods of Watlington. We produce our own sausages and bacon, including home-smoked. Our smokehouse is also used for salmon, plus we have a wide selection of fresh fish and shellfish from Devon. SP ON SH M R S Troutt & Co. Aberdeen House, Hazlemere Cross Roads, Hazlemere, HP15 7LG Tel: 01494 711803 We are a traditional butcher stocking a wide range of top-quality British meat, much of it from neighbouring counties, including some organic. Game and rabbits are sourced particularly locally, obtained from nearby estates. Sausages, burgers and pies are made on premises. We also stock local honey and eggs. SP ON SH E H M ORG

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R S Troutt & Co. Tudor House, High St, West Wycombe, HP14 3AE Tel: 01494 526880 We are a traditional butcher stocking a wide range of top-quality British meat, much of it from neighbouring counties. Our game is particularly local, sourced from nearby estates. Sausages and pies are made on premises. We also stock local honey and eggs. SP ON SH E H M Bob Hunter Mill House, Spurlands End Road, Great Kingshill, HP15 6PF Tel: 01494 716379 Home-produced honey. Please phone in advance to check availability. PP ON H Rebecca Young Tylers Green Tel: 01494 813673 The business grew out of my love of using produce from the garden to feed my family. I can supply a range of jams, chutney, and bottled fruit and veg. All the produce used in the preserves is grown without the use of artificial fertilisers or pesticides and is sourced from my own garden or from neighbouring growers. Fresh lemon curd, cookies and fudge also made to order. Sales at Prestwood Farmers Market, plus school fetes and fairs, or by direct orders. Will deliver. PP SP OF OM B C P HDE Rebellion Beer Co. Bencombe Farm, Marlow Bottom, SL7 3LT Tel: 01628 476594 Web: www.rebellionbeer.co.uk Opened in 1993, we produce high quality distinctive real ales using traditional brewing techniques, reviving Marlow's illustrious brewing tradition. 3 regular real ales, 5 seasonal beers, and one-off monthly brews are available from the Brewery Shop open Mon-Fri 8-6, Sat 9-6; from other local outlets; and from selected pubs and restaurants within a 30 mile radius of Marlow. Brewery tours take place on the first Tuesday of each month, and a Membership Scheme offers discounts and other benefits. PP ON OF A

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Roots Delicatessen 33 Crendon Street, High Wycombe, HP13 6LJ Tel: 01494 524243 Web: www.rootsdeli.co.uk We stock the very best of British and international foods, wines and beers for those who care about the quality of the food they eat. Local items include cheeses, milk, eggs, honey, Chiltern Brewery beers and other products, soups, chocolates and rapeseed oil. Traditional British cheeses are a speciality. Fresh bread is baked on the premises several times a day. SH A B C D E H P R S Scrumptious 23 Ford Way, Downley, HP13 5XW Tel: 01494 639175 I produce delicious home-made cakes, cookies, meringues and other baked goods, using free-range local eggs. Sold at Marlow, Wendover and Henley Farmers Markets, Chesham Local Produce Market and via direct orders. SP OF OM B Collings Hanger Farm Wycombe Road, Prestwood, HP16 0HP Tel: 07769 746323 This 148 hectare farm is situated in the beautiful Chiltern Hills. It has been run by the same family since 1923 when Wren Davis bought Collings Hanger Farm and Stoney Green Farm. The farm has a herd of organic suckler cows and grows ancient varieties of organic wheat for milling into flour. Flour and pasta plus seasonal products (e.g. elderflower cordial, nuts, mushrooms, etc) sold at Wendover Farmers Market. Also see Wren Davis Ltd. PP OF J R ORG Wren Davis Ltd Collings Hanger Farm, Wycombe Road, Prestwood, HP16 0HP Tel: 01494 862224 Milk delivery service. Milk received daily from Cotswolds for local delivery. Although the milk is not local, many of the products delivered with milk orders, such as eggs, yoghurts, bread and potatoes, are locally sourced wherever possible. BX B D E V HDE West Wycombe Community Library Swan Yard, High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AE Tel: 01494 449958 Web: www.westwycombelibrary.org.uk Our community-run library also features a tea shop serving tea, coffee and homemade cakes, plus cream teas on summer Sunday afternoons. Jams, marmalades and chocolates made in the village are also sold. We’re open for at least part of every day – check website for details. SH CT B C P

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Marlow Farmers Market Marlow Tel: 01494 817563 Not operating at present, but seeking to re-open later in 2010 in a more accessible and user-friendly site within the town. FM Prestwood Farmers Market Mr Hildreth's Garden Centre, 169 Wycombe Road, Prestwood, HP16 0JH Tel: 01494 862720 Web: http://groupedmedia.com/Hildreths/our%20partners.html Mr. Hildreth's is proud to welcome local farmers to his Garden Centre every Friday morning, where they set up their stalls and sell the freshest local meat, poultry and vegetables to the discerning residents of South Bucks. Baked goods and fish also available, plus there is a café and coffee shop in the Garden Centre. Every Friday 9-1. FM B M V Cards Unlimited 50-51 High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AG Tel: 01494 526439 A general store and card shop, stocking milk and eggs from Laceys and local honey. SH D E H Hard To Find Farm nr High Wycombe Tel: 01494 527047 Eggs sold at Troutts (West Wycombe), local Budgens stores, and other outlets. NOT available direct from farm. PP OF E Pann Mill Watermill London Road, High Wycombe, HP11 1BJ Web: www.pannmill.org.uk Powered solely by water, this mill has been painstakingly restored and maintained by volunteers from the High Wycombe Society Pann Mill Group who run it on three Sundays a year. Visitors can watch the grinding of locally grown grain and may buy the freshly stoneground, wholegrain, additive-free flour, on the premises. A recipe book, produced by the Mill Group, with ideas on how to use the flour, is on sale, together with other stalls and teas in the garden. See website for dates. SP ON R

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Plant and Harvest Chorley Road, West Wycombe, HP14 3AP Tel: 01494 438635 Web: www.plantandharvest.co.uk The Plant and Harvest is a unique site that was once the walled garden of the Dashwood Estate dating back to 1754 and now provides garden inspiration and speciality food in a peaceful and friendly environment. You will find lovely local honey, freshly baked bread with locally-milled flour, many interesting jars of hand-made condiments, a self-serve olive and olive oil station and a range of organic and fairtrade teas, coffees and confectionery. The fresh fruit and vegetable section offers seasonal British produce from local growers (pesticide-free) and the market. All our produce is sourced from small, independent companies in the UK with a significant representation from the Chilterns and neighbouring counties. Our café serves homemade and handmade cakes with tea and espresso coffees along with a tempting range of light lunches using produce from our Shop and garden, and eggs from our resident chickens. Events include free tastings and a special Christmas sampling evening. SH CT A B D E H P R V ORG OLS Sarah-Jane’s Handmade Chocolates West Wycombe Tel: 07540 737073 Sarah-Jane's Handmade Chocolates produces high quality handmade chocolates using only the finest ingredients, including local honey. Mouthwatering truffles are made fresh to order as are chocolate creations for wedding favours and other celebrations, all designed to satisfy individual requirements. Available at the Community Library and Paul's Traditional Sweet Shop in West Wycombe; or order directly by telephone or emailing [email protected]. SP OF OM C Cryers Hill Post Office and Stores Cryers Hill Road, Cryers Hill, HP15 6JP Tel: 01494 712245 A Post Office and general store stocking pork and pork products from We Three Pigs (a joint venture by several local small farmers), and fresh eggs from Nixeys of Chinnor. SH E M

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WEST Britwell Salome Farm Shop Red Lion Farm, Britwell Salome, OX49 5LG Tel: 01491 612070 Our entire ethos is to support local producers and sell local products. Pork and beef come from our own farms, lamb is also local. Our cakes are made locally. We also sell a wide stock of local beers and wines and many other local products and those from slightly further afield. Open Tue-Fri 8.30-6, Sat 8.30-5, Sun 9-12. PP ON FS A B D E M P R Calnan Brothers 3 High Street, Watlington, OX49 5PZ Tel: 01491 612240 Web: www.calnanbros.com Our family-run butchers supplies the highest quality meat, locally sourced where possible. Eggs are from Nixey of Chinnor, game (pheasants, pigeons, venison) from Wormsley Estate, Stokenchurch. We make our own sausages, burgers and steakburgers. We also have a café. SP ON SH CT E M Chiltern Valley Winery and Brewery Old Luxters Vineyard, Dudley Lane, Hambleden, RG9 6JW Tel: 01491 638330 Web: www.chilternvalley.co.uk An award winning English winery, our wines have been rated amongst the finest in the world and have gained an enviable reputation for quality both here and abroad. We are proud to have revived the tradition of farm-brewed, full mash Real Ales. Also available in our cellar shop are a wide range of liqueurs made on the premises, natural fruit juices and cordials, preserves, honey and other appealing gifts. We offer tastings, and tours can be arranged by appointment. Shop open Mon-Fri 9.30-6, Sat-Sun and Bank Holidays 11-6 (but closing at 5 in winter). PP SP ON OF A HDE D H Nixey Manor Farm, Chinnor Tel: 01844 351291 Eggs available from local outlets, including Cryers Hill Post Office and Store, and Calnan Brothers, Watlington. Enquiries from other potential stockists welcome. PP OF E

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Elmdown Farm Skirmett Road, Skirmett, RG9 6SR Tel: 01491 638254 Extremely fresh free-range eggs sold at farm gate. Advisable to ring in advance. Also rare-breed poultry for home-laying. PP ON E Fresh Fruits 2 Keens Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4PF Tel: 01844 353176 Traditional fruit and veg shop. Vegetables are sourced from a local farm (Middle Farm, Chinnor) subject to seasonal availability. SH V Gorvett and Stone 21 Duke Street, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1UP Tel: 01494 414485 Web: www.gorvettandstone.co.uk We offer a wide and imaginative selection of hand-crafted chocolates, produced on our premises using cream and honey sourced as locally as possible. SP ON C OLS Hambleden Stores and Post Office 58 Hambleden Village, RG9 6RT Tel: 01491 571201 We are a general store and post office, stocking a range of local produce including meat from the surrounding estate, milk and cream from Laceys, wine from Pheasants Ridge Vineyard, and chutney and honey made in the village. SH A H M P Harlesford Farm Tetsworth, OX9 7BX Tel: 01844 281514 Web: www.harlesfordfarm.co.uk We specialise in producing high quality, fully traceable, beef, lamb and mutton. Our animals are slaughtered at a small local abattoir (Witney) then the meat is brought back to the farm where it is allowed to hang and mature in our very own purpose-built on-farm butchery. We concentrate on selling our meat locally, through direct delivery of individual cuts, meat packs, whole lambs and half lambs (ideal for the freezer!). Our meat can also be purchased every 3rd Saturday of the month from Tetsworth Farmers Market, held in the village hall. PP OF OM M HDE

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Nettlebed Village Shop and Post Office Watlington Street, Nettlebed, RG9 5AA Tel: 01491 641201 A general store and post office, stocking milk and cream from Laceys, Lane End, and pork products from The Berkshire Pig Company. SH D M Pheasants Ridge Vineyard Pheasants Hill, Hambleden, RG 9 6SN Tel: 01491 576087 Web: www.gilbeygroup.com/pheasants-ridge This 1.6 acre vineyard produces a dry white and a dry sparkling wine. It is run as a village co-operative with all profits given to church funds. Both wines are featured on the Wine Lists of Gilbey restaurants in Old Amersham and Eton, and can also be purchased from Hambleden Stores, the vineyard itself (please phone first), and the restaurants. PP ON OF OM A Plested Butchers 20 Church Road, Chinnor, OX39 4PG Tel: 01844 353432 We supply beef from our own farm at Sydenham, and pork from Watlington. Lamb and eggs are also sourced locally. Sausages, pies, black puddings etc. are made on the premises. PP SP ON SH E M Quince Products Ltd Watcombe Manor, Ingham Lane, Watlington, OX49 5EB Tel: 01491 614664 Web: www.quinceproducts.co.uk We specialise in handmade quince jellies, marmalades, chutney and fruit cheeses. Our products are handmade in small batches using no added preservatives, and are sometimes combined with other fruits creating a delicious balance of flavours and taste. Quinces are sourced from the UK whenever possible, and our products have won many food awards. Our website has a recipe section containing ideas for getting the most out of quince products. Products can be purchased on-line, and via many local and some national outlets (see website); we also attend Beaconsfield Farmers Market, plus exhibitions and shows. SP OF OM P OLS

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The Undercroft Fruit and Veg Market Place, Watlington, OX49 5PS Tel: 07890 522660 As far as possible vegetables and fruit are sourced from adjacent counties. In season nearby Rectory Farm supplies asparagus, various soft fruit and a selection of green vegetables. Other local products include apple juice, free-range eggs, and honey from Watlington itself. Open Tue and Thu 9-4, Sat 8.30-1. SH E H J V Henley-On-Thames Farmers Market Market Place, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2AA Tel: 07860 129508 Web: Now in our 10th year, we have up to 25 stalls with a wide range of locally-sourced food products, plus plants and flowers. Runs alongside Henley’s traditional market. 4th Thursday of each month, plus any 5th Sunday 8:30-1:30. FM B F M V Rockwell End Farm Shop Rockwell End House Farm, Hambleden, RG9 6NF Tel: 01491 571347 Free-range eggs always available, plus a variety of vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, asparagus, cucumbers, peppers etc) according to season, all from our own farm. Free-range pork and pork products sometimes available. Buy from our small farm shop, open daily 9-6, or Beaconsfield and Maidenhead Farmers Markets. PP ON OF FS E M V Fawley Vineyard The Old Forge, Fawley Green, RG9 6JA Tel: 01491 577998 We have about 500 vines in around an acre, and produce beautiful still and sparkling white wines. Please ring to enquire about purchases and visits. PP OM A

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The Berkshire Pig Company 20 Chapel Street, Watlington, OX49 5QT Tel: 01491 613767 Web: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Berkshire-Pig-Company/462980215485 The Berkshire Pig Company is committed to producing delicious pork products from our free-range, rare-breed pigs. The pigs are traditionally reared in the Hambleden Valley and finished in large woodland paddocks in the Chiltern Hills where their diet of locally sourced cereals and beans is supplemented by foraging the forest floor. Our sausages, pies, roasting joints, bacon and ham can be bought at Marlow and Henley Farmers Markets and from Nettlebed Village Stores. We can also supply pork packs delivered to your door, spit roasts and whole hams for Christmas. Enquiries by e-mail to [email protected]. PP OF OM M HDE The Cake Makers Stokenchurch / Watlington Tel: 01494 482372 Web: www.thecakemakers.co.uk Our cakes are made with care using quality ingredients. We bake to order in our Watlington kitchen using local eggs. We cater for specific dietary requirements and have many happy customers of our nut-free and gluten-free cakes. We pride ourselves in offering a flexible service and can generally undertake orders at short notice, but also take orders all year round for our increasingly popular Christmas cakes. Order by phone or e-mail to [email protected]. SP OM B HDE The Five Horseshoes Maidensgrove, Oxon, RG9 6EX Tel: 01491 641282 Web: www.thefivehorseshoes.co.uk Our objective is to offer a really interesting and even challenging menu, focused on local produce as much as possible. Almost everything is made in-house from base ingredients; our remaining challenge is to make all our own bread. Our suppliers are small firms, gamekeepers and farmers in Oxfordshire and Berkshire (except the fish of course), and game and ‘wild food’ that we either forage ourselves or barter with our neighbours. We specially love to offer venison, rabbit and wood pigeon - guaranteed free-range, organic, humane and cholesterol free! Our menu changes on an almost daily basis, according to what our suppliers bring us and what is in season. CT N

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The Granary Delicatessen 30 High Street, Watlington, OX49 5PY Tel: 01491 613585 Web: www.granarydeli.co.uk The Granary is, at heart, a cheese shop stocking over 150 varieties, from UK farmhouse producers, as well as a fine range of Continental cheese. We also source many fine and award-winning foods from speciality food producers, most of which are not stocked in supermarkets. Produce is sourced locally where possible - breads and croissants from bakers in Oxfordshire, cheeses from Berkshire, cakes home-baked 3 miles away, wines from Brightwell Vineyard in Wallingford, bread flours from Wantage, plus honey, and quince preserves, from Watlington itself. SH A B D H P R OLS Hambleden Wild Game Culden Faw Estate Office, Oakengrove, Benhams Lane, Fawley, RG9 3AP Tel: 07825 773460 Web: www.theculdenfawestate.com We produce speciality venison sausages, venison burgers and pheasant sausages, venison joints, partridge, rabbit, pigeon and wild duck. All game is shot on the Culden Faw Estate (Hambleden / Culham / Fawley) and processed in our own game larder. Also beef from our farm at Mill End. Purchase from Hambleden Village Stores or order direct; also on the menu at the Stag & Huntsman, Hambleden. Game products also sold at Henley Farmers Market. PP SP OF OM M

NORTH Fieldmouse Cheese Store and Deli 8 Duke Street, Princes Risborough, HP27 0AT Tel: 01844 344990 A cheese store, delicatessen and coffee-shop / café stocking a wide range of quality products sourced locally and from further afield, including a comprehensive range of English cheeses. Various baked goods prepared on premises, using locally-sourced meat and other ingredients. Open Mon-Sat 9-5. SH CT B D

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Kings Farm Shop Loudwater Farm, Nash Lee End, Wendover, HP22 6BH Tel: 01296 622014 Web: www.kingsfarmshop.co.uk We source the best locally produced free-range meat including chicken, pork, lamb and duck. Local game is available seasonally including venison, rabbit, pheasant and partridge. Home-made sausages are a speciality, along with some cooked ham, pies and quiches, barbeque products, and whole pig and lamb roasts. Our delicatessen counter displays a tempting range of cheeses. SP ON FS D M Pasture Farm Pasture Farm, Thame Road, Longwick, HP27 9QX Tel: 01844 343651 Web: www.pasturefarmplants.co.uk Apple juice from apples grown on a small family farm, which also hosts a plant nursery. Open Tue-Sat plus Bank Holiday Mon, 9-5. Also sold via other local outlets. PP ON OF J Chiltern Ridge Apple Juice Old Sax Lane, Chartridge, HP5 2TB Tel: 01494 776309 Web: www.chilternridge.com Chiltern Ridge is a family run business providing pasturised apple juice all year round. In the autumn, you can come and pick the apples of your choice to be pressed and bottled, or you can bring your own apples to juice. Eggs and apple juice available from the farm. Through local shops we also sell seasonal freezer-ready lamb from our Texel flock, pork, and our own free-range chickens which are processed on the farm; outlets include Chesham Local Produce Market, Budgens in Wendover and Gerrards Cross, Fishers in Gerrards Cross, and Hughenden Valley village shop. PP ON OF E J M Hale Valley Vineyard Boddington East, Hale Lane, Wendover, HP22 6NQ Tel: 01296 623730 From our 1-acre vineyard we produce still and sparkling white wines using 2 main varieties, Bacchus and Findling. The wine is made for us by Stanlake Park at Twyford. Please phone to order, but note that only sparkling is available until mid-2011. A tasting and vineyard walk can be arranged for groups. PP OM A

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Hazeldene Organic Rare Breeds Farm Asheridge Road, Chesham, HP5 2XD Tel: 01494 783501 Web: www.hazeldenefarm.com On our seventy acre farm we raise Traditional Hereford cattle, Oxford Down Sheep, British Lop pigs and a variety of rare breed chickens. All these animals are naturally reared and slow-maturing, adding to their flavour. Our meat and eggs are available through our farm shop open Thu-Sun 10-4, which also sells organic English vegetables (including some from our own farm), flour and pasta from locally-grown wheat, local apple juice, coffee roasted in Hemel, and a range of preserves from small specialist producers. We also attend Chesham Local Produce Market. PP ON OF FS E J M R V ORG Horridge Meadows Oxford Road, Dinton, HP17 8TU Tel: 01296 748616 Free-range chicken and duck eggs available from our smallholding all year round, plus geese and turkeys at Xmas. Also rare-breed bantams and ducks for home-laying. PP ON E M Just Biscuits Layby Farm, Old Risborough Road, Stoke Mandeville, HP22 5XJ Tel: 07872 471112 Web: www.justbiscuits.co.uk Hand-made, freshly-baked, sweet and savoury biscuits, using locally-sourced ingredients as far as possible. Available through many local outlets including Beaconsfield Farmers Market; Castlemans Farm, Wooburn Green; Seasons Café, Old Amersham; Clarks Butchers, Princes Risborough; Peterley Farm Shop, Prestwood; plus shows and fairs. SP OF B Manor Farm Game 96 Berkeley Avenue, Chesham, HP5 2RS Tel: 01494 774975 Web: www.manorfarmgame.co.uk We have one of the widest ranges of fine quality English game available on-line. Our game is sourced mainly from our own shoot in Buckinghamshire but also from other local estates and is oven-ready and offered either whole or in convenient cuts or joints. We also supply a wide range of game-based products ideal for both formal and informal occasions, and through our contacts with like-minded local producers, a range of other meats. You can also buy every Friday 9-5 at Long Grove Wood Farm, Chesham. PP OF OM M OLS

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Potash Farm Foods Potash Farm, Puttenham, HP23 4PP Tel: 01296 662462 Web: www.potashfarmfoods.co.uk We rear free-range chickens and sell via local farm shops and farmers markets including Wendover and Chesham. Eggs are also sold all year, plus free-range Bronze Turkeys can be pre-ordered in the run-up to Christmas. The turkeys are a traditional slow-growing breed that love to roam free around our orchard and fields. We process them ourselves, and they are oven-ready and boxed with cooking instructions. Orders can be placed on-line, by phone or in person. PP ON OF E M Rumseys Chocolaterie The Old Bank, 26 High Street, Wendover, HP22 6EA Tel: 01296 625060 Web: www.rumseys.co.uk Rumseys makes quality hand-made chocolates using milk from a local dairy, sold at coffee shops in Wendover and Thame, and online. Each shop is themed on the film 'Chocolat', and as well as the hand-made chocolates produced in front of your eyes, the menu includes pastries, lunches, cakes, tarts, and a fantastic range of ice creams made to Nigel Rumsey's own secret recipe. All our food is fresh, home-made and uses locally sourced ingredients. Open 7 days. SP ON OM SH CT B C D OLS Orchard View Farm Stockwell Lane, Little Meadle, HP17 9UG Tel: 01844 273387 Web: www.orchardviewfarm.co.uk Orchard View Farm was established in 2009 by Jim and Helen Mackellar. At the heart of the business is a desire to provide high quality local food, expertly raised, sympathetically butchered and all with the minimum impact on the environment. Orchard View Farm is stocked with traditional and rare breeds as we want to nurture and develop these breeds and have also found through extensive research that the meat is of a better quality than modern commercial breeds. All customers are encouraged to visit the working farm to see how their meat is raised and meet us (by arrangement). We specialise in providing ‘hampers’ for special occasions, where all the ingredients you need will be expertly packaged and supplied with cooking times and recipe ideas, using all our own farm produce. PP OM M

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Wendover Farmers Market High Street, Wendover, HP22 6DU Tel: 01296 623056 Web: www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/produce_markets.htm All products sold are grown, reared, caught, brewed, pickled, baked, smoked or processed by the stallholder, drawn from a 35 / 50 mile radius of Wendover. On average there are around 24 stalls, giving a comprehensive range of food types, including flour from Wren Davis, and local honey. Other locally-made non-food items are present. 3rd Saturday of each month 10–1. FM H R V Princes Risborough Farmers Market High Street, Princes Risborough, HP27 0BD Tel: 01844 343198 Not operating at present but planning to relaunch April 2011 on 3rd Sunday of each month. Also see Princes Risborough Country Market. FM Long Grove Wood Farm 234 Chartridge Lane, Chesham, HP5 2SG Tel: 01494 772744 Web: aylesbury.duckfarm.co.uk We specialise in the breeding and rearing of the real Aylesbury Duckling together with a range of other high-quality poultry including turkeys, geese, chickens and capons for the Christmas market. We sell direct to the general public via farm gate sales - please telephone or e-mail (via website) in advance as demand can outstrip supply. Our ducklings are also available from Clarks The Butchers, Princes Risborough and Mayo Bros Butchers, Chesham Bois. We also supply local restaurants and hotels in and around the vale of Aylesbury. PP ON OF M Mill House Farm Risborough Road, Stoke Mandeville, HP22 5XL Tel: 01296 613991 Web: www.mill-house-farm.co.uk Chicken centre selling eggs, as well as hens, coops and feed. Free-range hens with low stocking densities. Eggs can be purchased through an innovative Rent-a-Hen scheme which can include home delivery, or from premises. Open Mon-Fri 12-6, Sat 9-6, Sun and BH 9-3. PP ON OM E HDE Needful Foods Old Red Lion, 62 High Street, Great Missenden, HP16 0AU Tel: 01494 866422 Web: www.needfulfoods.com Delicatessen and off-licence providing a wide range of quality products, including a fair number sourced locally. Independent family firm. SH A H P

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Parslow Apiaries Ltd. Bailiffs Cottage, Church End, Bledlow, HP27 9PB Tel: 01844 344948 Honey collected from almost 350 beehives around Buckinghamshire, and blended to achieve the best results. Available at farmers markets including Beaconsfield, and numerous local shops. Also from Bailiffs Cottage, but best to ring in advance. Many other honey-derived products including beeswax, hand and foot creams, lip balm, furniture polish and candles. PP ON OF H The Chiltern Brewery Nash Lee Road, Terrick, HP17 0TQ Tel: 01296 613647 Web: www.chilternbrewery.co.uk The Chiltern Brewery is the oldest independent brewery in the Chilterns. With 30 years’ experience and innovation in brewing fine ales, our family-run business combines age-old brewing methods using 100% British ingredients. We have also developed a wide range of high quality products which complement our beers. Many of these, such as freshly baked bread, chocolates, cheese, mustard, marmalade, fudge and fruit cake are made by local producers, using our beer. We also offer a wide range of fruit preserves, local honey and our own beef sausages, plus ciders, wines, liqueurs and cordials. Buy online, or from the Brewery Shop open Mon-Sat 9-5. Our bottled and draught beers and other products can also be found in many local stockists. PP ON OF OM A B C H J M P OLS Princes Risborough Country Market Market Square, Princes Risborough, HP27 0BD Tel: 01844 347230 Web: www.buckscountrymarkets.co.uk Our co-operative of producers offers you traditional home-baking and preserves, freshly picked locally grown seasonal garden produce, plants and flowers, free range eggs, honey, creative crafts and knitwear. Under the Market House, every Thursday 9.30-12.30. Closed January. Also see Princes Risborough Farmers Market. FM B E H P V

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EAST Amersham Country Markets Church Hall, Sycamore Corner, Woodside Road, Amersham, HP6 6AJ Tel: 01494 675029 Web: www.buckscountrymarkets.co.uk We sell local food (plus plants, herbs and crafts) produced within ten miles of Amersham. Every Friday 8.30-11. Closed January. FM B E H M P V Beaconsfield Farmers Market Windsor End, The Old Town, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JJ Tel: 01628 670272 Web: www.tvfm.org.uk/market/4/beaconsfield/ Beaconsfield Farmers Market has gained a reputation as one of the most successful markets in the Thames Valley, with a strong local following. Now in its ninth year of operation, it offers a diverse range of produce, from locally reared meat and poultry to baked goods, speciality breads, award winning cheeses and fine wines. Also available according to season are fresh fish and shellfish, plants and cut flowers, fruit and vegetables. See website for list of attendees. 4th Sunday of each month 9-12.30. FM A B D E H M P V ORG Chiltern Farm Food Stockings Farm, Bottrells Lane, Coleshill, HP7 0JX Tel: 01494 729418 Web: www.chilternfarmfood.co.uk Traditionally reared free-range pork and lamb from small livestock farm, plus meat products, and game in season. All animals are fed natural diets free from antibiotics, artificial hormones and growth promoters. Available at Beaconsfield, Little Chalfont, Maidenhead, Prestwood and Wendover Farmers Markets. Farm shop coming soon. PP SP OF M Fat Man Chilli 59 Hornhill Road, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, WD3 9TG Tel: 01923 775592 Web: www.fatmanchilli.co.uk A wide variety of chillies are grown in our gardens and made into delicious sauces and jellies, ranging from mild to very hot. Sold at Little Chalfont Farmers Market, other Farmers Markets, and on-line. PP OF P OLS

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Hiron and Butler t/a A Warner Bros High Street, Chalfont St Giles, HP8 4QH Tel: 01494 872016 A traditional butcher, with much of our meat, poultry and seasonal game sourced from adjacent counties. Near Christmas we stock top-quality free-range geese and turkey for which pre-ordering is required. Sausages are made on the premises. We now offer a barbeque service for your outside events. Locally-produced eggs also sold. SP ON SH CT E M Finchers Farm Beamond End Lane, Beamond End, nr. Amersham, HP7 OQT Tel: 01494 712136 Our potatoes, grown without the use of pesticides, available direct from farm. PP ON V Flexmore Farm Hill Farm Lane, Chalfont St Giles, HP8 4NT Tel: 01494 874826 Web: www.flexmorefarm.co.uk We produce home-reared free-range pork and water buffalo meat. We also sell unpasteurised buffalo milk, cream, yoghurts and cheese, plus eggs, poultry and hog roasts. Farm shop open Wed 2-7; also at Little Chalfont Farmers Market and Chesham Local Produce Market. PP ON OF FS D E M Godden Butchers Unit 1 Crown Business Estate, 178 Berkhampstead Road, Chesham, HP5 3ET Tel: 01494 772997 Web: www.goddens.co.uk Bespoke local family butcher for three generations. We aim to source our meat as locally as possible. On a seasonal basis we supply lambs raised on ancient pasture at our own farm in the Chilterns, rare breed pork from another local farmer and wild venison and game from Hertfordshire. We also supply beef reared in north Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and barn reared turkeys from Bedfordshire. We welcome orders of any size from the trade and public alike. Cash-and-carry is available, although it is best to ring in advance. We are always interested to hear from local suppliers, although they must be approved by the Food Standards Agency. SH M Healthright 27 High Street, Chesham, HP5 1BG Tel: 01494 771267 Web: www.healthright.co.uk We are a health-food shop stocking a range of locally-sourced foods, including eggs from Seer Green, honey from Bledlow, rapeseed oil from Tring, Chiltern Ridge apple juice from Chesham, various preserves from Watlington. SH E H J P R

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Hentucks Poultry Farm Deadhearn Lane, Chalfont St Giles, HP8 4HG Tel: 01494 872025 We rear and sell free-range, slow-growing chickens. Turkeys and geese also available for Xmas. Need to ring in advance to arrange purchase and collection. PP OM M Little Chalfont Farmers Market Village Hall Car Park, Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont, HP8 4UD Tel: 01494 763426 Web: www.tvfm.org.uk/market/69/little+chalfont/ On our stalls we have fresh meat including rare breeds, cheese and dairy, breads, free range eggs, cakes, fresh fish, and sundries including specialist chilli sauces and oils. All our members are accredited by our parent organisation, Thames Valley Farmers’ Market Cooperative. Our raison d'etre is 'Fresh food, locally produced.' 2nd Saturday of each month 9-1. FM B D E M P R V Pathfinder Ostrich Farm Ramscote Lane, The Vale, Chesham, HP5 2XP Tel: 07989 586346 Web: www.ostrichproducts.co.uk A family business established in 1992, rearing free-range ostrich producing best quality ostrich meat (lower in fat, cholesterol and calories than skinless chicken), ostrich eggs, pies, sausages and burgers. We sell at the farm (please ring in advance) and at Henley and other Farmers Markets. We also supply restaurants and other caterers. See our website for recipe ideas. PP ON OF E M Colne Valley Food Colne Valley Visitor Centre, Denham Court Drive, Denham, UB9 5PG Tel: 01895 839859 Web: www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/cvfood.html Colne Valley Food is a new social enterprise that will sell quality local food to local people and provide support to local farmers and growers. Food is sold through stalls at countryside attractions such as the Colne Valley Park Visitor Centre (3rd Sunday of each month 11-3) and local countryside events. A box scheme is under development, covering homes in the local area, but also targeting larger customers like businesses and hospitals further afield. Local food will also be sold wholesale to caterers. An annual Food Festival is held each September where many local food businesses have a stall. Food is to be sourced from within a 30-mile radius, with a particular focus on the Colne Valley itself. For further information contact [email protected]. BX SH N HDE

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Chesham Local Produce Market Market Square, Chesham, HP5 1ES Tel: 01494 774842 Web: www.chesham.gov.uk/market/chesham_market.aspx Sample and buy fine quality food and drink from local producers within 10 miles of the town. Produce on offer includes cheese, meat, fruit juice, vegetables, oil, plants, cakes, preserves and wine. It's a fantastic opportunity to try the local produce on your doorstep. Organised by Chesham Town Council and Transition Town Chesham. 4th Saturday of each month from 10am. FM A B D J M P R V Rowan Tree Goats Rowan Tree Farm, Blackwell Hall Lane, Ley Hill, Chesham, HP5 1UN Tel: 01494 793259 Web: www.rowantreegoats.co.uk We provide outside catering, featuring our own goat meat and other locally sourced meat and produce. Goat meat products also available at Wendover Farmers Market. PP OF CT M HDE Seasons Café Deli 6 Market Square, Old Amersham, HP7 ODQ Tel: 01494 728070 Web: www.seasons-cafe-deli.com A café, deli and takeaway selling a wide variety of foods and produce. We source from over 150 suppliers, a great many of them independent and from the local area. Our emphasis is on seasonality and quality, so our café has a varying menu, including daily specials. Open daily 8-6. We also offer an outside catering service. SH CT A B C D E J P R V HDE Sophie’s Chocolates 3/4 The Gatehouse, Elgiva Lane, Chesham, HP5 2JD Tel: 01494 782999 Web: www.sophies-chocolates.com We produce hand-made chocolates, plus a variety of made-to-order wedding and other celebration cakes. All are made on the premises. Ingredients used include the finest chocolate, and local fresh cream and free range eggs. Shop open Mon-Sat 10-5. Also available by mail order. SP ON OM B C

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The Crown Inn 16 High Street, Amersham, HP7 0DH Tel: 01494 721541 Web: www.thecrownamersham.com Eating and drinking is central to the Inn, with locally-sourced food served simply available all day. The constantly changing menu is dictated by our use of seasonal produce from handpicked suppliers, including Stockings Farm in nearby Denham who breed rare Gloucester Old Spot pigs, to Kingcup Farm who supply beautiful vegetables. The bar serves Rebellion ale from Marlow. CT N The Mouthfull Food Company 30 Howards Wood Drive, Gerrards Cross, SL9 7HN Tel: 01753 890327 Web: www.mouthfullfood.co.uk The Mouthfull Food Company started in 2008 with humble beginnings. Driven by a passion for delicious food made from the freshest ingredients possible, John Fackrell founded the company initially to gain valuable experience within the food industry. Through gradually expanding at local farmers markets we were quickly approached by local stores and cafés who felt our product was a cut above the competition. We have never looked back and our soups, stocks and croutons are now available at local shops including Roots, High Wycombe and at Little Chalfont and many other Farmers Markets. SP OF S

SOUTH Copas Traditional Turkeys Kings Coppice Farm, Grubwood Lane, Cookham, SL6 9UB Tel: 01628 499980 Web: www.copasturkeys.co.uk Turn your cook into a chef this Christmas! The Copas Family combine high welfare standards with centuries-old production methods (such as plucking by hand and game-hanging) that result in a truly superior eating quality. Their Cookham-raised free-range bronze, organic and traditional white turkeys and award-winning accompaniments range are sold via quality independent retailers throughout the UK and have been praised by celebrity chefs and foodies alike. Also available on-line, and by phone order (home delivery or collection). PP OF OM M HDE OLS ORG

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Homefield House Dairy Goats Homefield Farm, Fifield Road, Bray, SL6 2DY Tel: 01628 623619 Web: www.homefieldgoats.co.uk Fresh soft goats cheese in a variety of flavours, both sweet and savoury, made with pasteurised milk from our dairy. Sold at Maidenhead and Beaconsfield Farmers Markets and at farm gate. PP ON OF D Hitcham Dairy Ice Cream Hitcham House Farm, Lent Rise Road, Burnham, SL1 7AD Tel: 01628 666678 / 07747 025249 Our ice cream, in a selection of delicious flavours, is home-produced using fresh milk from our own Ayrshire cows, local free-range eggs, fresh cream and natural flavourings. We also make our own cakes, and ice cream cakes are a speciality. All are available from our farm shop, along with locally-produced jams, chutneys, honey and more. Open Tue-Wed 2-6, Thu-Sun 11.30-6. SP ON FS B D H P Town Farm Shop Bisham Village, SL7 1RR Tel: 01628 473781 Via our farm shop we sell our own lamb, pork, beef and free-range chicken, and make sausages, burgers etc. on premises. Additionally, at Christmas we produce the full range of traditional poultry (turkeys, geese, ducks). We also stock jams, marmalades and pies made in Marlow, eggs from Binfield, and English cheeses. Open Fri 9-6, Sat 9-1. PP SP ON FS B E M P Wildflour Bakery Weirbank, Monkey Island Lane, Bray, SL6 2ED Tel: 07951 140176 Web: www.wildflourbakery.co.uk We produce the highest quality pies, pastries and breads with seasonal savouries always on offer. Our products are made from fresh ingredients sourced from the Thames Valley, using tried and trusted recipes. Available at Beaconsfield, Little Chalfont, Maidenhead and Wendover Farmers Markets, and by direct order. SP OF OM B M

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Maidenhead Farmers Market Grove Road Car Park, Maidenhead, SL6 1SQ Tel: 01628 670272 Web: www.greenlink-berkshire.org.uk/windsor&mhead/maidenhead_farmers_market.htm Always 25-30 stalls selling local produce including beef, pork, lamb, game, pies, speciality breads and baked goods, cheeses, poultry, fresh trout, homemade cakes, fruit and vegetables in season. Free parking in the Town Hall car park. 2nd Sunday of each month 10-1. The market also visits Maidenhead High Street on any fifth Saturdays. FM B D F M V Copas Farm Shop and PYO Lower Mount Farm, Long Lane, Cookham, SL6 9EE Tel: 01628 529511 (recorded message) Web: www.copasfarms.co.uk Copas Farms is an award-winning, modern, diverse family-run business. 82 acres is allocated to Pick Your Own farms providing seasonal fruit (including strawberries, cherries, raspberries and gooseberries) and vegetables (including peas, beetroot and spinach). We also have a farm shop stocking locally-sourced bacon, our own apple juice, and many other tempting products. Open late April to late September. Before you set out, please call the 24 hr message line to check opening times. Please note we also have a second PYO farm at Iver. PP ON FS J M V PYO Waltham Place Farm Church Hill, White Waltham, SL6 3JH Tel: 01628 825517 Web: www.walthamplace.com Waltham Place is certified by both the Soil Association and Demeter, the bio-dynamic association. We have a farm shop, which only sells our own produce, grown and reared on the estate. This includes organic meat, sausages and bacon; vegetables; jams and chutneys; and wool from our Jacob and Castlemilk Moorit sheep! The farm shop and tea- room are open June to September, Tue-Fri 10-4. During the rest of the year, a collection veg bag scheme and meat is available by arrangement with the estate office. School visits welcome by appointment. PP ON OM FS BX CT M P V ORG

ANY AREA Local Flavours Speedwell House, Speedwell Street, Oxford, OX1 1NE Tel: 01865 328786 Web: www.local-food.net Business breakfasts, lunches and suppers. Catering with a difference, using suppliers from the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Food Directory, with the producers often present to talk you through their fare. CT N HDE

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Cows In The High Street Once upon a time, in the early part of the 20th century, High Wycombe farmers would have driven their cattle along the High Street on the way to the milking parlour. More recently, as the war ended in 1945, cherry orchards covered the land where my house stands, and, for centuries, water mills such as Pann Mill ground local wheat for the flour which made the bread of townsfolk.

As England emerged from the dark days of war it was a land that had managed to sustain its population through six years of isolation, cut off from most of the imported food that had comprised 60% of consumption in 1939. High Wycombe would have been no exception to the national drive to maximise the production of local food, but that Wycombe was a very different town to the bustling, built-up district of today. Then, residential areas such as Hazlemere, Downley and Booker would have been villages surrounded by fields of crops or grazing livestock; leafy orchards abounded and watercress beds grew in the yet unculverted River Wye. The much smaller population had much greater access to the means of food production. Growing one’s own fruit and vegetables and raising a few chickens was commonplace. So, how would we manage today if our food supply was to be interrupted? What has changed in the sixty-five years that separate us from that rural market-town life? In those immediate post-war baby-boom years a boom in the production of cheap fossil fuels not only fuelled our increasingly ubiquitous motor cars but also, through petro-chemicals, facilitated the “green revolution”. Suddenly we have found ourselves disconnected from the process of food production. Cheap and plentiful fruit and vegetables are available year-round in the big supermarkets along with intensively farmed meat and dairy products. Everything is sanitised and neatly-packaged waiting to be dropped into the trolley before being transported home in the family car. We do not need to think where it comes from. But, how would we cope now if that supply chain was to fail? Entering the second decade of the new century there is a growing dissatisfaction with this way of life. There is a burgeoning interest in the provenance of our food, concern about production methods and animal welfare and awareness of the inequity between the wealthiest and poorest countries of the world. As our political leaders, with a greater or lesser sense of urgency contemplate the prospect of a diminishing cheap oil supply and a chaotic climate we can start to make a difference ourselves by supporting local food producers through buying seasonal food with minimal food-miles. Not only will we rediscover the pleasure of food that tastes as it should but also we will be helping to stem the flow of money out of the local economy. Out of the millions of pounds that we spend in the big supermarkets only a very small proportion remains in circulation in the local economy. By buying more of our food in the locality in which it has been produced we will be helping to strengthen the local economy through the links between growers, retailers and consumers, and building a more resilient community for ourselves and our neighbours. Today demand for allotments is outstripping supply, bee-keeping courses are flourishing and more and more people are keeping their own chickens. Will we, one day, again see the sight of a herd of cows plodding down the High Street? Celia Carter

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Local Food in Action - some other local food initiatives in the area

Allotments No food can be more local than that grown on your own patch. Once you’ve exhausted the potential of your garden, you might consider taking on an allotment. Depending where you live, allotment provision can be the responsibility of your Parish, Town or District Council. Friends of the Earth Food Chain Campaign As part of its Food Chain Campaign, Friends of the Earth is calling for more support for UK farmers who farm in a less intensive and more sustainable way. A thriving local food economy is a keystone of this model. There are Friends of the Earth Local Groups in Wycombe, Chinnor and Thame, Maidenhead and District, and Aylesbury Vale www.wycombefoe.org.uk & www.foe.co.uk Bare Gardens If you are one of the many people in High Wycombe who are waiting for an allotment, or longing to grow your own fruit and veg but haven't enough space, there is a local scheme called Bare Gardens which is one of many garden share schemes springing up across the country. The idea is that people with more garden space than they can use or manage, lend it to someone else to grow food, in return for a share of the produce. We currently have twenty-five gardens on offer, get in touch and we will try to match you up with the most suitable person. www.baregardens.org.uk National Trust at Hughenden Manor Hughenden Manor is the venue for a number of activities related to local food. It has a recently-restored walled garden where you can pick up tips and inspiration for growing your own produce. An annual Apple Day each autumn enables you to sample and learn more about the wide range of heritage varieties grown there. Produce from the garden is used in the restaurant along with meat reared on the estate. The property is also hosting cooking demonstrations and other events as part of the DEFRA-funded Eat Into Green Living project. www.nationaltrust.org.uk

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Pann Mill Group Set amidst a lovingly maintained garden in a corner of The Rye open space in High Wycombe, Pann Mill is, perhaps, the oldest working example of how the people of Wycombe would have obtained their flour in the past. There is a record of a mill on this site in the Domesday Book and the present one is the fifth since then. It is testimony to the enduring status of bread produced from locally grown and milled wheat as a basic dietary staple. The mill, which is powered solely by water, has been painstakingly restored and maintained by volunteers from the High Wycombe Society Pann Mill Group who run it on three days a year. www.pannmill.org.uk The Transition movement and Transition Town High Wycombe Started in Totnes in 2006 the Transition movement provides a model for communities to thrive in a post-carbon era and is flourishing in villages, towns, cities and islands around the globe. As the challenges of peak oil and climate change dictate a move away from dependence on fossil fuels, by working together now to build sustainable food and energy supplies, as well as developing neighbourhood links, the local community can plan its own future and strengthen resilience to external shock. There are Transition initiatives in various stages of development in High Wycombe, Marlow, Henley-on-Thames, Maidenhead, Thame and District, Chesham, Amersham, and the Chalfonts. www.transition-wycombe.org.uk & www.transitionnetwork.org

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Acknowledgements We would like to thank: The Chilterns Conservation Board Sustainable Development Fund, and Cllr Lesley Clarke / BCC Community Leaders’ Fund, for their generous financial support enabling the production of this guide. The pupils of Juniper Hill School, and Carrington Junior School, both Flackwell Heath, for producing much of the artwork. The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire Food Group, and Chilterns Conservation Board for allowing access to their listings of businesses. All the volunteers who have given their time and energy towards the creation

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Help us keep this guide up-to-date. This guide has been produced by volunteers from Transition Town High Wycombe and Wycombe Friends of the Earth. Although we have tried to make the listing as comprehensive as possible by approaching all known businesses, big or small, who fulfil the criteria for inclusion, some have declined to be listed or failed to respond to repeated enquiries. There may be others whom we have inadvertently missed and to whom we apologise. Any suggested amendments (for example overlooked or new businesses, changes of details, businesses no longer operating) should be e-mailed to [email protected] . The guide is also available on-line at www.food-on-our-doorstep.org.uk, which we will endeavour to update periodically. Neither the compilers of this guide, nor the listed businesses can be held liable for any inaccuracies. First edition September 2010 Printed by Jubilee Greenwood Press Limited on Cocoon FSC accredited 100% recycled paper.

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