Organic Fruit, Vegetables & Local Honey

[Trevor]

Can anyone help, does one know where is good to buy Organic Fruit, Vegetables & Local Honey..
and do do they deliver ?

At the moment I have to go to the Natural Food Company in Alsager, way to far,

Thanks Trevor

 

[Gramaisc]

We've had some discussion on this sort of thing before - http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/local-produce.5867/#post-107199 .

And there's http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/fordhall-farm.8341/ - near Market Drayton.

 

[Trevor]

Thanks I am new to area

 

[Gramaisc]

There are people who get veg-boxes delivered, too, I'm sure - they'll probably be along in a bit...

 

[db]

i get a lot of stuff from mottershead's butcher on weeping cross (baswich) - they have a lot of locally produced preserves, sauces, cheeses, etc.. other than that - stafford market, i guess! neither deliver, obv's..

let us know if you find anywhere you'd recommend

 

[Gramaisc]

i get a lot of stuff from mottershead's butcher on weeping cross (baswich) - they have a lot of locally produced preserves, sauces, cheeses, etc.. other than that - stafford market, i guess! neither deliver, obv's..

let us know if you find anywhere you'd recommend

Depending upon where Trev lives, John Anslow on Sandon Road provides a very similar service.

 

[Wormella]

There are people who get veg-boxes delivered, too, I'm sure - they'll probably be along in a bit...

Hello - we get a Riverford Organic Veg box Delivered, have done since we moved to Stafford 6 years ago. I think I mentioned that in the thread above. They are currently running a deal buy 2 weeks worth and gee the 3rd week free but it isn't local-local (I think the bulk of our stuff comes from Peterborough but we've found the veg box gives us a good mix of things every week.

 

[Withnail]

I have an organic box delivered fortnightly - not massively local but local enough(?) from a place in Bridgenorth. Pretty sure he doesn't grow his own bananas but most of the rest is grown in the environs. He doesn't have a website but the company name is Four Seasons Organics - Tel: 01746 716012

Does that place at Trentham do organics? Or what about the Canalside(?) place in Great Haywood?

I'll have a squizz in a bit and report back.

 

[Gramaisc]

Pretty sure he doesn't grow his own bananas but most of the rest is grown in the environs.

One never knows - commercial banana growing lasted into the late 1950s in Iceland.

..cheap geothermal heat and electricity goes a long way..

..still goes on to a small extent..

 

[Wormella]

I know Riverford make a point of never airfreighting anything, and I'm pretty sure they did the maths that shipping bananas from wherever caused less CO2 emissions then greenhouses. We found the issue with super local schemes was it was very dependent on what was grown locally - in the case of the one we had in Liverpool - that meant beetroot, every week for a year.

To be perfectly honest we get a vegbox delivered because we're lazy, and it means not having to think about what we buy veg wise and we can shape our cooking around it - that way we've worked out we eat better and save money. Since Goldilox is vegetarian we get through a lot of veg.

 

[Withnail]

To be perfectly honest we get a vegbox delivered because we're lazy, and it means not having to think about what we buy veg wise and we can shape our cooking around it -

I quite like having vegetables thrown at me, so to speak, and having to cook with what i'm given - makes you think, and look lively.

Not sure how lively i could look with beetroot every week for a year, mind - though i do believe that there exist a rather good beetroot recipe i posted somewhere 'pon this site - but personally i enjoy that element of surprise a veg box brings. Praps not for everyone.

Apropos this -

Does that place at Trentham do organics? Or what about the Canalside(?) place in Great Haywood?

I'll have a squizz in a bit and report back.

- the place at Trentham is Brown & Green -
http://www.brown-and-green.co.uk/trentham
and it was Canalside -
http://www.canalsidefarm.co.uk/index.php

- both with lots of lovely things to buy and then eat.

 

[Trumpet]

Off track here but Brown & Greens also have a decent meat counter. Bostin' veal rib eye steaks & sausage rolls.

 

[littleme]

I noticed today that one of the farms on Derrington Lane on the way into Derrington was advertising Local Honey....I think it was Home Farm.....there was a sign at the entrance...local honey, potatoes etc...

 

[Gramaisc]

I noticed today that one of the farms on Derrington Lane on the way into Derrington was advertising Local Honey....I think it was Home Farm.....there was a sign at the entrance...local honey, potatoes etc...

This one?

I was going to Google "dirty carrots", but decided not to..

 

[joshua]

http://www.stonefarmersmarket.co.uk/
Our next
Farmers' Market is on
Saturday 2nd November 2013

 

[littleme]

This one?

I was going to Google "dirty carrots", but decided not to..

No, no....approaching Derrington from Newport Rd/Castle Bank (A518)
Its not the first farm entrance (Berry Ring Farm), but the second.....Home Farm? Not too clear that its a farm entrance but still, Small blackboard outside...

 

[Gramaisc]

No, no....approaching Derrington from Newport Rd/Castle Bank (A518)
Its not the first farm entrance (Berry Ring Farm), but the second.....Home Farm? Not too clear that its a farm entrance but still, Small blackboard outside...

What a co-incidence - almost the same style of sign...


...perhaps they've both used the same consultant..?

 

[Trevor]

Depending upon where Trev lives, John Anslow on Sandon Road provides a very similar service.

I live by Stafford Station, so central..