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Local Produce from Colchester

Colchester, its surrounding farms and fisheries produce some wonderful things...
The area has been famous for its oysters ever since the Romans were here. Now it has a growing reputation for some great wines as well

> Fruit & Vegetables
> Meat & Dairy
> Fisheries
> Cakes, Preserves, Sauces
> Wine & other Drinks
Fruit & Vegetables^ top ^
East of England Apples and Orchards Project
Lists where to buy local fruit and other orchard produce in Essex
Hams Farm
Apples, beans, beetroot, carrots, tomatoes, artichokes, pumpkins, squash, potatoes and fennel
Park Fruit Farm
39 varieties of apple, 10 varieties of plum, 4 varieties of pear
McLauchlan's of Boxted
PYO strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, broad beans and sweetcorn

Meat & Dairy^ top ^
Essex Pig Company
A rare breed pig farm using traditional farming methods
Monach Farms @ Butterfly Lodge
Home bred beef, lamb, pork and goats. Also goats milk, goats cheese, goats cream, goats yoghurt and gotas ice cream
Blackwells Farm Produce
Sells a variety of meats including chicken, goose, turkey and pork from the Gloucester Old Spot
Rozbert Dairy
Organic goat farmer producing a range of goats cheeses, bioyoghurts and milk

Fisheries^ top ^
Colchester Oyster Fishery Ltd
Many people associate Colchester with native oysters but not so many know the origins of Colchester Oyster Fisheries Limited and its evolution into a leading supplier of lobster, crabs, clams, mussels, crawfish, and of course oysters. The purpose of this is to tell you a little of that story, to describe how best to choose and handle what we have to offer, and to set out our trading policy
The Company Shed
We harvest Colchester Native Oysters and Rock Oysters, and supply local clams, mussels and fish

Cakes, Preserves, Sauces^ top ^
Cicelys Cakes & Savouries
Facing Heaven Chilli Company
Handmade, small batch production of oils, dips and sauces using our own grown chillies and peppers
Vineyard Fine Foods
Produces a range of multi-award-winning jellies, sauces, pickles, chutneys and other preserves
Wilkin & Sons
Where skills and tradition blend to produce some of the world's outstanding preserves
Maldon Sea Salt
Maldon Salt is a completely natural product, retaining valuable sea water trace-elements

Wine & other Drinks^ top ^
Mersea Island Vineyard
The vineyard offers home grown English wines, bed & breakfast accommodation, vineyard tours and a conference room
Carter's Vineyards
This site describes our range of quality English wines and explains our "sunshine into wine" ideas using renewable energy
Witenagemot Wines
Offering a range of fine english wines
Mauldons - The Black Adder Brewery
Moletrap Bitter, Black Adder Stout, Suffolk Pride, seasonal ales
Copella
Copella have been makers of 100% pure pressed apple juice and apple juice blends in the heart of Suffolk's 'Constable country' for over thirty years
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