Wye Farmers Market is proud to announce that stallholders Mead Farm Cakes and Classic Preserves have both won awards in the Great Taste Awards.
Following on from their success year when they received a gold star for their Fruit Cake without alcohol, Mead Farm received a silver start for their Fruit Cake, with alcohol.
In their first year of entry Classic Preserves received a Silver Star for their Pear & Ginger Jam.
For such a small market Wye is particularly proud to have 2 stallholders who have done so well in such a prestigious national completion and feel that it shows all the more, the excellence of our local Kent produce and producers.
Botterells Fresh Fish
Botterells fresh fish is based in Rye Harbour. John Botterell offers a wide range of locally caught fresh fish and shellfish. He can also help with advice and cooking suggestions for the various fish on offer.
Botterells
Harbour Rd
Rye East Sussex
TN31 7TT
01797 222875
Burscombe Cliff Farm
Ben Garrett and Hilary Jones have farmed at Burscombe Cliff Farm, Egerton since 1987. The 90 acre farm obtained full organic status in 1991, meaning the highest standards of animal welfare must be followed at all times.
The farm has 24 breeding cattle, some of which can be seen at Hothfield Common where they have been recruited by the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation to help maintain the ecologically sensitive habitat. Pork on sale at the market is produced from the offspring of the farm's rare breeds; Saddleback and Oxford Sandy and Black pigs.
Hilary and Ben are respected breeders of Blonde d'aquitaine cattle, being regular prizewinners at agricultural shows and selling breeding stock to farmers throughout the UK.
Burscombe Cliff Organic Farm
Egerton
Ashford
Kent
01233 756468
Chun Farm
Run by Roger Chouchman, Chun farm is based in Horsmonden and produces a wide range of organic salad vegetables, herbs and Kentish cobnuts, when in season.
Chun farm attends Wye Farmers Market on the first Saturday of the month through the Spring and Summer.
Chun Farm
Churn Lane
Horsmonden
Tonbridge
Kent TN12 8HL
01892 722577
Hubbards Bakery
Hubbards Bakery is a family run bakery based in Whitstable and offers a wide range of bread and rolls, cakes and pastries.
Hubbards Bakery
63 High St
Whitstable
Kent CT5 1AP
01227 772060
J.J. Game
Jonathan Johnson specialises in bringing high quality game: venison, pheasant, partridge, rabbit, duck etc. to the market. Everything is shot in the wild in local woodland/farmland, and prepared by Jonathan at Broad Oak, Brede, near Rye.
Jonathan and his wife Penny will be pleased to offer you cooking hints at the market, to help you enjoy their delicious alternatives to farmed meat.
J.R. Meats
J.R. Meats main enterprise is their family owned abattoir at Aylesham. Such small-scale facilities are a vital link in the local food chain, allowing animals to be slaughtered close to the farm with the minimum of transportation and stress.
Denise and Cath attend the market with their burger van, selling their home produced burgers and bacon.
J. R Farm Meats Ltd
Ratling Court Farm
Ratling
Aylesham
CT3 3HN
01304 842928
Mead Farm Cakes
Mead Farm cakes is run by Joanna and Denis McArthur and based in Stelling Minnis.
They have been producing a wide range of cakes, pastries and biscuits since 1998 and their fruit cake recently won a national award.
Mead Farm Cakes
Pony Cart Lane
Stelling Minnis
Canterbury
Kent CT4 6AU
01227 709650
Perry Court Farm
The farm is situated just below the North Downs, near Wye in Kent and is run by Martin and Heidi Fermor.
Perry Court Farm offers a wide selection of fruit and vegetables including over 100 varieties of apple and pear together with many varieties of strawberries, plums, raspberries, gooseberries, red, white and black currants and many vegetables including asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, Jerusalem artichoke, pink fir potatoes and lots more.
Perry Court Farm
Bilting
Ashford
Kent TN25 4ES
01233 812408
Quarry Farm Meats
A 15 acre farm at West Farleigh near Maidstone. Quarry Farm specialises in producing a wide range of quality meat reared under high welfare conditions. Farmer Stuart Taylor rears beef, pork, lamb, chicken and rabbit, to be sold at the market by his mother June and brother Nick.
Stuart has 30 breeding sows, all Hampshire x Large White. They spend their entire lives outdoors, farrowing and rearing their young in Arks bedded with straw with plenty of space to roam in. No growth promoters are used in any of the feed.
The farm runs a 'closed herd', meaning no animals are bought in, to prevent the spread of disease. Fattened pigs travel just 20 minutes to be slaughtered and butchered, creating further local employment.
Quarry Farm
Heath Rd
West Farleigh
Maidstone
Kent ME15 ONH
01622 814465
Ripple Farm Organics
Ripple Farm is a small horticultural farm of 14 acres situated in the Stour Valley in Kent, which has been certified Organic since 1989 and run as a partnership by Martin Mackey and Simon Bowden.
The farm itself is essentially a market garden producing a wide range of vegetables, salads, herbs and some soft fruit following an ethos of:
Sustainable growing methods in harmony with nature
Producing fresh, nutritious food
Providing a direct link from consumers to farmers
Reducing Food Miles
Recycling and reducing packaging
Providing sustainable, local employment
Ripple Farm Organics also runs a local box scheme
Ripple Farm Organics
Crundale
Canterbury
CT4 7EB
01227 732208
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