Food directory
These businesses all produce and sell the wonderful ingredients that make the county of Bedfordshire special. In this directory you will find specialist ingredients, box schemes that can deliver local produce straight to you door, farm shops that sell local meat and vegetables and farmers who are happy to sell their produce directly to you.
Bedfordshire Growers Ltd| (new window)
Potton Road
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 0ER
Tel: (01767) 319215
Fax: (01767) 317306
Email: bob.taylor@bedgrow.co.uk|
Bedfordshire Growers Ltd is an established producer-owned business near to Biggleswade, specialising in salads, vegetables and potatoes grown in Bedfordshire and the adjacent Counties. A range of quality crops are graded and packed at the site, and supplied to multiple retail, processing, and local wholesale customers. The Country Store Farm Shop offers their crops to the local community, with fruit from growers in Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk. The shop is open 7 days/week. A range of local fresh foods are supplied from other local producers including cakes, organic flour, eggs, honey, and a range of pork products.
Open: Monday to Saturday 8.30 am - 5.30 pm,
Sunday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Boaters Coffee Co Ltd| (new window)
2 Ampthill Business Park
Ampthill
Bedford
MK45 2QW
Tel: (01525) 404781
Fax: (01525) 404981
Email: phil@boaters.co.uk|
Boaters - a drink to suit everyone's taste. Their speciality coffees, each have a roast showing a numbered strength from 1 to 10;Flavour coffees in 46 varieties in 113gm pouches;top 10 flavoured instant coffee, in 50g jars, and 4 chill iced coffee flavours. Chocoholics will love Simply Equisite Range - 9 mouthwatering chocolate treats - plus chocolate covered expresso beans, and 4 flavours of instant hot chocolate. Tea lovers can enjoy 11 varieties of boxed teas and herbal and fruit infusions, each box containing 25 envelopes. For further information, visit www.boaters.co.uk| or call (01525) 404781.
Bromham Mill and Gallery| (new window)
Bridge End
Bromham
Bedfordshire
MK43 8LP
Tel: (01234) 824330/ (01234) 228759
Mobile: 07946 568142
Fax: (01234) 228315
Email: bromham.mill@bedscc.gov.uk|
Stoneground flour milled by water power using local wheat. Flour dependant on river level but occasionally available March - December. Art work for sale by local artists. Locally produced woodland crafts and charcoal for sale. Quality contemporary crafts for sale depending on exhibitions. Coffee shop selling refreshments and home baked cakes. They also have a gift shop. Coffee shop selling refreshments and home baked cakes. Gift shop. The Mill is available for meetings/private hire. Bromham Mill is run by Beds County Council Countryside Access Service.
Open: Mill & Gallery open Sundays & Bank Holiday Weekends
1.00 pm - 5.00 pm April - October. Admission is free, donations are welcome to support the mill.
Browns of Stagsden| (new window)
Manor Farm
High Street
Stagsden
Bedford
MK43 8SQ
Tel: (01234) 822330
Mobile: 07713 074471
Fax: (01234) 823289
Email: jpeterbrown@btinternet.com|
A family farm specialising in home reared beef, turkey and pork plus locally reared lamb, beef is hung for at least three weeks for maximum flavour and all burgers and sausages are homemade. They also stock local seasonal vegetables, free range eggs and chickens, sauces, oils and farm pasteurised milk.
Open: Tuesday - Thursday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm,
Friday 9.00 am - 6.00 pm, Saturday 9.00 am - 4.00 pm.
Buy-Local.net Ltd| (new window)
Bedford i-lab
Priory Business Park
Stannard Way
Bedford
Bedfordshire
MK44 3RZ
Tel: 0845 880 7055
Fax: 01234 834 813
Mobile: 07815 921540
Email: info@buy-local.net|
www.buy-LOCAL.net| provides you with a unique and convenient local shopping experience, where you can buy quality local food, drink and crafts on-line and buy-LOCAL.net will deliver it all direct to your door at a time that suits you. We guarantee you a variety of best quality, great tasting, fresh and local produce. It couldn’t be simpler to support local!
Caribbean Flava| (new window)
Producers and Suppliers of Caribbean Foods
Portland Court
Kingsway
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU4 8HA
Tel: (01582) 727567
Mobile: 0776 5975972
Email: cls@Caribbean-flava.co.uk|
Supplying the public online and through local shop and also, caterers and private clubs, Caribbean Flava is a Producer of ready- to- eat Caribbean foods, prepared in handmade seasonings. The range of frozen and ambient products includes a serious cook's Jerk Marinade – perfect for marinading meat s for barbeques or roasting. Meals include, Trinidad Chicken, Rundown Chicken, Curried Pigeon Peas, Callaloo, Coocoo and ..... our superior snack the handmade Jamaican-style Patty. Products are available online at www.caribbean-flava.co.uk| and also in Deli’s, Farmers Markets, bakers, butchers at exhibitions and festivals. A Food Standards Agency approved and an implemented HACCPS system is operated.
Open: Telephone (01582) 727567 or 07765 9725972
Chris Corbett
New Road Farm
Bedford Road
Cople
Bedfordshire
MK44 3TP
Tel: (01234) 838088
Email: chriscorbe@googlemail.com|
Small producer of quality lamb and pork. The pork comes from a free range herd of Gloucertshire old spot pigs that are reared using
non-intensive traditional methods. Lamb is reared on a high welfare non-intensive system. All animals are processed at a small local abattoir. Travelling distance and stress is at an absolute minimum.
Open: Any reasonable hour, 7 days a week.
The Community Food Growing Project| (new window)
Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (BRCC)
The Barn
Buttercup Farm
Hockliffe Road
Tebworth
LU7 9QA
Tel: (01525) 878145
Email: emmac@bedsrcc.org.uk|
The Community Food Growing Project helps groups and individuals in Bedfordshire to grow their own fruit and vegetables, using organic methods. They arrange for people to attend training courses and join in community gardening projects. The project helps improve health, the natural environment and, by keeping things local, reduces 'food miles'.
Open: For further information, please contact the Project Officer on the number supplied.
D A Chapman| (new window)
Mill Ponds
Keysoe Road
Riseley
Bedfordshire
MK44 1DE
Tel: (01234) 708071
Email: chapman@millponds.wanadoo.co.uk|
Glyn's free range brown eggs. Riseley Honey from their own hives. Their own lamb, beef, pork and bacon prepared by a high class local butcher and curer. They believe that all their products are produced to the highest standards of welfare and quality. Prizes awarded at Bedfordshire Honey Show.
Open: At the gate all week - 8.30 am - 6.00 pm (or dusk if earlier).
Also market stall at gate Saturdays 9.30 am - 1pm. Bedford Country Market every Wednesday.
St Neot, St Ives Farmers Markets alternate Saturdays and Thrapston Charter Market every Tuesday.
Dunton Community Garden Group| (new window)
8 Chapel Street
Dunton
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 8RW
Tel: (01767) 314599
Mobile: 07936 546749
Email: duntongarden@btinternet.com|
Dunton Community Garden Group is a registered charity providing low-cost, seasonal, organically-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs, grown by a variety of community groups for collection at the the garden.
It is also a recreational facility and an organic demonstration garden.
Open: Produce is available early spring to December.
The garden is open to visit 10.00 am - dusk all year.
Edible Ornamentals| (new window)
Cherwood Nurseries
Blue Bells
Chawston
Bedfordshire
MK44 3BL
Telephone (01480) 405663
Email: info@edibleornamentals.co.uk|
Chillies, chillies and more chillies! Under the protection of their dedicated greenhouses, they are passionate, devoted and slightly obsessive growers of gorgeous, scrumptious chillies! There are many varieties to choose from so whether you’re partial to the subtle tingle of a sweet, delicate Mexican chilli or the blistering heat of the hottest Bangladeshi Naga, they grow it. They produce and sell anything from the freshest hand-picked chillies, to stunning chilli plants, through delectable chilli strings to the most mouth-watering, gourmet fiery sauces. Their ethos is simple: Growing and cooking with passion and skill and caring for your enjoyment and pleasure. Call or visit them.
Open: Orders are accepted by telephone, email and website.
Our produce is also available at the Bedfordshire Farmer's Markets
E.W Wells & Son
Scroupts House
Langford Road
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 9JU
Tel/Fax: (01767) 312173
Email: alanwells1@btinternet.com|
A family run business growing a wide range of quality vegetables and summer salads picked daily and sold in the farm shop and local outlets. Also available are local free range eggs. They can also be found at local farmers markets which include Biggleswade, Letchworth and Hatfield.
Open: Farm shop open 7 days a week, seasonal fresh vegetables and free range eggs.
Flitton Hill Organics| (new window)
Church Farm
Church Lane
Flitton
Bedford
MK45 5EL
Tel:(01525) 860277
Mobile: 07885 625745
Email: info@flittonhill.co.uk|
Growers, wholesalers and retailers of organic produce including own organic farm shop, open Fridays and Saturdays.
Open: Every Thursday 10.00 am - 5.00 pm, Friday 9.00 am - 6.00 pm and Saurday 9.00 am - 4.00 pm.
Fowler's Free Range Eggs
30 Silver Street
Great Barford
Bedfordshire
MK44 3HX
Tel: (01234) 870677
Mobile: 07814 363765
Email: jayne.mansfield@gamatronic.net|
Their free range chickens and duck are truly free and have several acres of meadow land in which to roam.
Open: Eggs are available all year round.
Franklins of Thorncote| (new window)
Trumpetons Farm
Thorncote Green
Sandy
Bedfordshire
SG19 1PU
Tel: (01767) 627644
Mobile: 07771 927547
Fax: (01767) 626381
Email: info@franklinsfarm.co.uk|
Free range poultry producers and game dealers. They aim to satisfy their customers with a quality product that is locally produced. They supply only premium quality meats and offer a range of beef, pork, lamb, sauasage, free range poultry and quality local game available at their farm shop, farmers markets or you can choose their courier option at a special rate. The meat is hung in the traditional way to ensure the best flavour and tenderness. Speciality products include dry cured bacon, venison and wild boar. They also have a range of speciality sausages including gluten free, which always keep the customers coming back for more.
Open: Farm Shop Open Tuesday & Wednesday 9.00am - 3.00 pm, Thursday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm, Friday 9.00 am - 6.00 pm and Saturday 9.00 am - 3.00 pm.
Game in season, poultry, eggs and meat all year round.
Freedom Poultry| (new window)
Horseshoe Farm
Astwood
Bourne End
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AU
Tel: (01234) 752464
Mobile: 07930 877336
Email: suejolly@freedompoultry.wanadoo.co.uk|
Defra approved and registered free range egg producer and packer. Free range ducks eggs, vegetables grown on the farm, straw, hay and logs also available. Wholesale service and delivery.
Open: Seven days from 8.00 am - 7.00 pm
F S Charteress and Son
14 The Hill
Blunham
Bedfordshire
MK44 3NG
Tel: (01767) 640216
Master butchers specialising in quality meats, home made pies, sausages in a wide selection of flavours, cooked meats, local and scotch meats, game and cold buffets. Local poultry at Christmas.
Open: Monday to Friday 7.30 am - 1.00 pm/2.00 pm - 5.30 pm.
Early closing Thursday - 1.00 pm. Saturday 7.00 am - 4.00 pm
Garden Friends Vegetable Box Scheme & Plant Nursery| (new window)
Top Farm
The Lane
Wyboston
Bedfordshire
MK44 3AS
Tel: (01480) 210383
Mobile: 07850 666756
Email: gardenfriendsveg@aol.com|
Local Food Hero 2007 East Anglia Region
Vegetable boxes only include locally grown seasonal Bedfordshire vegetables. They promote links with small local growers thus helping reduce food miles.They offer a selection of sizes of boxes to suit your individual or family needs. All prices include delivery. Delivery to Bedford Central and the surrounding villages and new for 2008 Ampthill, Flitwick and the surrounding villages. For further details of delivery in your area please phone or email. Answerphone available, they will return your call. Please telephone for dates of Summer Shows. They also run a family garden nursery growing hardy perennials, clematis, herbs, conifers, shrubs, ornamental grasses and vegetable plants. We also make items for the garden from reclaimed wood these include garden planters, bird and insect houses, trellis and herb planters.
Open: By appointment at the nursery, at the farm gate or at the following Farmers’ Markets: Roxton Garden Centre, Marston Moretaine, Hitchin,Great Barford Church, St Neots, Woburn, Biggleswade, Huntingdon & Wolverton.
Gunns Bakery
8 Market Square
Sandy
Bedfordshire
SG19 1HU
Tel: (01767) 680434
Mobile: 07810 648374
Fax: (01767) 691666
Email: davidgunns@aol.com|
Traditional bakers where quality, service and value still count. Huge variety of fresh daily breads and delightful confectionery ranging from tasty danish pastries and fresh cream concoctions to family size carrot cakes. Wedding and birthday cakes decorated to your liking by our skilled staff. Tasty selection of lunchtime specials from sausage rolls to Bedfordshire Clangers and all kinds of rolls and breads filled at your request. Appetising buffets individually produced for any occasion. Wholesale orders always welcomed. Large variety of goods available through
Open: All products available daily at:
Sandy, 8 Market Square - Monday to Saturday 7.00 am - 5.30 pm (01767) 680 434;
Biggleswade, 12 Hitchin Street - Monday to Friday 7.00 am - 2.00 pm, Saturday 7.00 am - 4.00 pm;
Bedford, 17 St Pauls Square - Monday to Saturday 7.30 am - 3.00 pm, Tel (01234) 327723
Humbers Homemade Preserves| (new window)
63 Maulden Road
Flitwick
Bedfordshire
MK45 5BW
Tel: (01525) 750246
Mobile: 07967 900110
Email: vickie@humbershomemade.co.uk|
Producing homemade jams, chutneys and preserves using as much locally grown produce as possible. A wide selection of produce from traditional favourite to next exciting flavours!. They can supply larger quantities for events or gifts call us to find out more. Please check website for events.
Open: Daily by appointment at 63 Maulden Road or at the following farmers markets: Flitwick (every Friday), Roxton Garden Centre (every Saturday), Bedford, Marston Forest Centre, Cranfield, Leighton Buzzard, Biggleswade, Ampthill & Newport Pagnell.
J Hurley & Sons
Hill Farm Mill Road
Sharnbrook
Bedfordshire
MK44 1NP
Tel: (01234) 781405
Fax: (01234) 781405
Top quality home produced beef and local reared pork.
Open: 9.30 am - 6.00 pm. Closed all day Tuesdays and from 12.00 pm on Sundays
Jordans Cereals Ltd| (new window)
Holme Mills
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 9JY
Tel: (01767) 318222
Fax: (01767) 600695
Email: customer.services@jordans-cereals.co.uk|
Millers since 1855, Jordans have established themselves as producers of innovative and high quality natural foods. Jordans only uses natural ingredients including Conservation Grade cereals to produce tasty, healthy breakfast cereals and snack foods. Visit the website for full details on the company and its products.
Open: Mill Shop at Holme Mills Monday to Friday 9.30 am - 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm;
Saturday 9.30 am - 12.30 pm
K C Robins
Brook Farm
Little Staughton
Bedfordshire
MK44 2BX
Tel: (01234) 378118
Email: k.c.robins@btconnect.com|
A family run business producing free range meats. Suppliers of free range pork, beef and lamb joints.
Their own pork and beef are used for home made pasties, sausage rolls, sausages and pies.
Open: Call at the farm shop on Fridays.
Please telephone for orders in the evening.
L B Stewart & Son
"Guadalest"
Lower Farm Road
Bromham
Bedfordshire
MK43 8JD
Tel: (01234) 822641
Mobile: 07771 800048
Email: lstewart_afc@hotmail.com|
Vegetables and salad grower and wholesaler. Delivery to retail shops, restaurants and wholesalers.
Also at St Neots farmers' market. Pumpkins a speciality.
Open: Office open for trade enquiries Monday to Friday
7.00 am - 5.00 pm. Saturday 8.00 am - 11.00 am
Local's Best| (new window)
Tel: (01525) 288 252
Email: info@localsbest.co.uk|
Local’s Best, based in Eversholt, Bedfordshire, is a small family-run box scheme supplying local people with the finest seasonal fruit, vegetables, salads and free-range eggs. Unlike most box schemes that rely heavily on wholesalers and imported produce, we work directly with farmers and our produce is grown on local farms. Most of it is picked and delivered to you the same day. You have complete control over the contents of your box and can have it delivered weekly, fortnightly, monthly or on an ad hoc basis. We deliver in our refrigerated van ensuring that your order arrives in perfect condition. Visit our website www.localsbest.co.uk to find out more.
Loft Farm
Church Street
Langford
Bedfordshire
SG18 9QA
Tel: (01462) 701289
Raspberries naturally grown (no chemicals), freshly picked on same day as sale. Free range chicken and duck eggs. Ready planted hanging baskets and tubs. All sold at farm gate/house and by telephone. Loft Farm is between The Plough Pub and the church. Drive into the tarmac yard for easy access.
Open: Raspberries -July. Eggs - Every day
(less quantity in winter).
Plants - Spring/Early Summer and Seasonal
Meah's Flavours of India Ltd| (new window)
Unit H
10 Park Avenue
Sundon Park Road
Luton
Bedfordshire LU3 3BP
Tel:(01582) 493388
Mobile: 07852 985 915
Fax: (01582) 490303
Email: khaled@curry-sauces.co.uk|
Over 30 years experience in the indian restaurant tarde. They are now producing a range of fresh, handmade restaurant - style cooking curry sauces. Using only the finest authentic ingredients, free from artificial colouring, flavouring and preservatives. 3 months refrigerated shelf life and can be frozen upto 6 months. Recipes and servings suggestions are included. Sauces are a perfect complement to meat, chicken, fish and vegetables dishes. Currently available in korma, tikka masala, dhansak, balti, rogon, dopiaza, jalfrezi and madras. Available through specialist food outlets, butchers, delicatessens, farmshops, farmers markets, shows and exhihibitions.
Morgan Pell Meats|
Blacklands Farm
Kimbolton Road
Wilden
Bedfordshire
MK44 2PP
Tel:(01234) 771587
Mobile: 07850 906495
Fax: (01234) 771587
Email: morganpell@btinternet.com|
Lamb and beef available all year. Lamb and beef are traditionally reared on grassland meadows of North Bedfordshire. The majority are born and grown on the farm, all are born and bred in Bedfordshire.
All lamb and beef can be purchased in small or larger quantities.
Open: From the farm gate every Friday 4.30 pm - 8.00 pm all year except August.
Old Manor Farm| (new window)
Hitchin Road
Henlow
Bedfordshire
SG16 6BB
Tel: (01462) 814249
Email: info@oldmanorfarm.com|
They breed and rear Aberdeen Angus cattle which they have just started to sell directly to the public in a presentation box of 1/8 (20kg) or 1/16 (10kg) of a whole animal. Each box contains all different cuts and joints of beef. All beef is hung for 21 days and is processed locally.
Open: All year round - to order. Delivery by arrangement.
Collection by appointment.
Pecks Farm Shop| (new window)
Stockwell Farm
Eggington
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
LU7 9PA
Tel: (01525) 211859
Fax: (01525) 210281
Email: fionapeck@aol.com|
Pecks Farm shop sells locally grown fresh vegetables and the fruit comes direct from the orchards in Kent. Eggs are free range and cakes to die for. The policy is fresh, local and tasty.
Open: Monday - Friday 9.00 am - 6.00 pm,
Saturday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm and Sunday 10.00 am - 3.00 pm
Pells Farm Shop and Nursery
Newlands Farm
Renhold Road
Wilden
Bedfordshire
MK44 2PX
Tel: (01234) 771834
Large selection of fruit, vegetables, cakes, cheeses, fish and meat. Also a huge selection of plants and shrubs and all garden products. Also wholesale fruit and vegetables.
Open:
Winter - Monday to Friday 9.00 am - 6.00 pm,
Saturday 8.30 am - 6.00 pm, Sunday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm.
Summer - Monday to Friday 9.00 am - 7.30 pm,
Saturday 9.00 am - 6.00 pm,
Sunday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Potton Brewery Company| (new window)
10 Shannon Place
Potton
Sandy
Bedfordshire
SG19 2SP
Tel: (01767) 261042
Email: info@potton-brewery.co.uk|
Potton Brewery has been producing and supplying cask conditioned and bottled ales and ciders to local restaurants and public houses since 1997. Off-sales are also available to the public in casks and
10 litre and 20 litre polypins.
Open: 9.00 am - 4.30 pm Monday to Friday
Priestley Farm Shop
Church Road
Flitwick
Bedfordshire
MK45 5AN
Tel: (01525) 712397
Growers of quality vegetables and salads. Their own grown summer and winter bedding and basket plants. All products are for sale retail and wholesale in the farm shop. Also available in the shop are locally produced honey and preserves, apples, barn and free-range eggs, Jersey cream and locally produced apple juices.
Open: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays - 9.30 am - 5.00 pm
Priory Organix| (new window)
64 Woodstock Road
Bedford
Bedfordshire
MK40 4JY
Mobile: 07854 393217
Email: info@prioryorganix.co.uk|
Bedford's organic vegbox scheme delivering fresh certified organically grown vegetables and fruit available in a range of pre-packed box sizes every Thursday. Vegetables are grown and packed on an organic farm in Lincolnshire which has been growing Soil Association Certificated organic food since 1983.
Open: Deliveries are on Thursdays.
R P Gates & Sons
Bridge Farm
High Street
Great Barford
Bedfordshire
MK44 3LG
Tel: (01234) 871030
Market gardeners and farmers growing on around 400 acres.
They supply seasonal vegetables, including potatoes (10 varieties), sprouts, onions, cabbage, calabrese, marrows, brocoli, cauliflower.
Open: Reasonable hours by telephone
River Nene Home Delivery| (new window)
50 Lammas Walk
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
LU7 1JB
Tel: (01525) 851851
Fax: (01525) 851851
Email: richardyoung@rivernene.co.uk|
Organic vegetable box scheme. River Nene 'Our farm on your table'
Open: 51 weeks of the year. Delivery day dependant on postcode. Call us (01462) 811811.
Silsoe Horticultural Centre
Holly Walk
Silsoe
Bedfordshire
MK45 4EB
Tel: (01525) 860999
Fax: (01525) 862402
Email: silsoehc@bedscc.gov.uk|
Items for sale include seasonal vegetables, cut flowers, pot plants, garden plants (seasonal), hanging baskets, garden tubs (seasonal), jams, chutneys, pickles etc. Home grown produce when available.
Open: Monday to Friday 9.30 am - 3.30 pm.
Not open weekends or Bank Holidays
Southalls Butchers
Home Farm
Bedford Road
Great Barford
Bedfordshire
MK44 3JF
Tel: (01234) 870333
Fax: (01234) 870333
Farm Fresh Meat - reared on the farm producing lamb and beef sold in individual joints or freezer packs . Local pork is also available.
Meat with a real difference cared for and sold by the family.
Traditional Christmas Turkeys available from early December. Flavoured sausages a speciality.
Open: Tuesday to Friday 8.00 am - 5.00 pm,
Friday 8.00 am - 5.30 pm, Saturday 8.00 am - 2.00 pm
Stables Christian Centre| (new window)
The Old Rectory
Kimbolton Road
Bolnhurst
Bedfordshire
MK44 2ES
Tel: (01234) 376237
Email: stables@oldrectory.me.uk|
Herbs and wild flowers: over 140 varieties. Large selection of homemade preserves. Crafts.
Open: See website, telephone us for opening hours or visit by appointment.
Stratton School Farm
Stratton Upper School
Eagle Farm Road
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 8JB
Tel: (01767) 220003
Fax: (01767) 220003
Extensively reared livestock fed on GM free food including lamb, pork, beef, chicken, turkey, duck, sausages and burgers.
The farm is part of Stratton School curriculum.
Open: Term-time weekdays: 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm, Saturdays and Sundays 9.00 am - 12.00 pm
(other times by arrangement). School Holidays: open all day
Summerhill Farm Shop Ltd|
Cople Road
Cardington
Bedfordshire
MK44 3SH
Tel: (01234) 831222
Fax: (01234) 831818
Summerhill farm shop provides a "shop window" for a host of local producers. Specialising in the provision of quality meats and free range poultry sourced locally. They also offer fruit and vegetables, freshly baked bread, delicatessen and dairy products plus all the accompaniments that are required to make a perfect meal.
Open: Monday - Closed, Tuesday to Friday 7.30 am - 6.00 pm, Saturday 7.30 am - 5.00 pm,
Sunday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm and Bank Holidays 10.00 am - 4.00 pm.
Sunnyside Free Range Eggs
Southview Farm
Lidlington
Bedfordshire
MK43 0RJ
Tel: (01525) 403777
Producing real free-range eggs. Which are produced as closely as possible to traditional standards but using modern technology.
They grade and pack to local shops, small supermarkets and dairies, and also supply some wholesale outlets.
Warden Abbey Vineyard| (new window)
Southill Park
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 9LL
Tel: (01462) 816226
Fax: (01462) 812235
Email: sue@wardenwines.co.uk|
Planted in 1986 on the site of a Cistercian Abbey vineyard, Warden Abbey Vineyard's four acres of vines produce fragrant dry white.Bedfordshire's only vineyard has won awards every year since its first vintage in 1990, including Silver for 'Warden Bacchus 2006' at the 2006 East Anglian Wine Growers' Association Wine of the Year Award.
Open: Monday to Thursday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Woburn Country Foods| (new window)
Unit 10
Deeth Farm
br>Cranfield Road
Woburn Sands
MK17 8UR
Tel: (01908) 585484
Fax: (01908) 584686
Email: woburncf@btconnect.com|
Locally farmed meats supplying the catering trade, farmers' markets, private sales and mail order. Fresh meats include pork from our own farm, venison from The Woburn Abbey Estate. They make 27 varieties of speciality sausage and dry cure their bacon. Farmers' markets include Biggleswade, Olney, Woburn,
St Albans and Harpenden.
Open: Monday to Friday 8.00 am - 5.00 pm.
Mail order and markets all year round.
Yelnow Farm
Church Lane
Odell
Bedfordshire
MK43 7AD
Tel: (01234) 721296
Yelnow Farm is an Organic Farm. They sell eggs (duck, geese and hen), seasonal vegetables and fruit and a variety of plants from bedding and vegetable plants to alpines. Also, at times, sell wooden products such as garden hurdles, and holly wreaths at Christmas. They are hosts for WWOOF(World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms). If you would like to volunteer, please contact Margaret or Jim Jones on the number provided.
Open: Bedford Country market stall at the farmers market (Second Thursday) and country market stall in Bedford every Wednesday.