The Wildwood Farm is located in Rayleigh, Essex. The mature woodland where they are based is ideal for raising their Free-range Kelly Bronze turkeys and free range rare breed Tamworth pigs by traditional farming methods. There Kelly Bronze turkey is ideal for the Christmas dinner, as the birds are grown to maturity over six months.
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Hall Farm Shop is located at Stratford St Mary, in Colchester. The Farm shop has won the award for ‘Best Farm Shop 2008’ with food and drink produced on their farm. Their restaurant has also won ‘Best Informal Dining Venue 2009’ and is where you can get breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea. They also attend farmers markets to sell their products there.
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La Vallee Farm produces quality meat products and they specialise in Low Fat meat products that includes beef burgers and sausages, the kind of meats they sell are beef, lamb, chicken and pork. They began the farm in 1977 by a couple called Brian and Marion Wilson who developed it into a productive farm to be able to raise cattle, sheep and pigs. They also have a farm shop in which to sell their products.
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Woodford Meats Farm Shop is based in Canewdon near Rochford in Essex. The farm is owned by the Woodford family and has been since 1961. Their cattle are raised in the traditional way and they bring young stock to spacious straw-bedded barns in the winter months where they can grow and gain strength. Other than their own Woodford Beef they also sell locally produced eggs, fruit and vegetables.
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Cressing Park Farm Shop produces a variety of local produce such as meat, vegetables and Diary. Their Pork is from a rare breed of Pigs that are kept on the farm and the lamb is from their Wiltshire Longhorn Sheep. There locally grown vegetable consist of cabbages, leeks, parsnips, cauliflowers, swedes and carrots. They currently stock a selection of dairy products from a couple called Bob and Sally Kirk who run Springsteps Goat Dairy in Maldon, the Kirk family have been farming cows for generations but have only recently been in the world of the dairy goat world.
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Lathcoats Farm is specialized family fruit farm and is one of the last remaining ones within Essex. They are known for having over 40 varieties of apples from their own orchard and all are ready picked. In the summer they have summer fruits that you are able to pick yourself which normally starts around June. They also have a wide range of food from other specialist producers from around the region at their farm shop.
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Calcott hall Farm has farms around the area of East Anglia, it is currently a family run business who aims to provide a pleasant and friendly shopping experience which differs from supermarkets. They grow a range of vegetables and fruit locally on their farms and stock products from the Taste of Anglia food group.
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