If you want to support independent local food retailers this festive season, we’ve found the local producers to add a Lancastrian twist to your celebrations.
Vegetables +
- Growing With Grace www.growingwithgrace.org.uk 015242 51723
Get a box of organic local veg delivered direct to your doorstep, or buy direct from the farm shop on Clapham junction.
- The Plot www.the-plot.uk 07850184859
Buy seasonal organic herbs and veg from The Plot’s two market garden sites whilst supporting Lancaster District’s Farm Start training programme – supporting new entrants into sustainable farming. You could also gift a FoodFriends membership to a family member this Christmas.
- Single Step www.singlestep.org.uk 01524 63021
Located off Penny Street, this wholefood shop sells a number of locally sourced and seasonal vegetables and fruit (and other local, organic and fairly traded goods).
Meat and cheese +
- Low Sizergh Barn www.lowsizerghbarn.co.uk 01539560426
If you fancy a day out you could visit Low Sizergh Barn and Growing Well to pick up a range of goods – including meat. The site’s farmshop offers organic raw milk, bread, meat from locally reared animals, organic vegetables, free range eggs, 60 or so cheeses, jams and chutneys.
- Bowland Pork bowlandpork.co.uk 015242 62827
Bowland Port offer beef, lamb, pork and free-range turkeys
- Leagram Organic Dairy www.cheese-experience.com 01995 61532
Organic Cheese perfect for Christmas presents!
Chutneys and condiments +
- Lancaster’s Charter Market www.lancaster.gov.uk/sites/markets/new-charter-market
(held in Lancaster’s Central Market square every Wednesday and Saturday) often has a stall selling jams, chutneys, locally made cider vinegars and honey amongst other things (free range eggs included.)
- Claver Hill Community Food Project www.facebook.com/ClaverHill
A regular trader at Lancaster’s seasonal markets and Potato Day, Claver Hill now makes a wide range of chutneys, jams, marmalades, jellies and even cider. When they aren’t attending local community events, you can contact the group directly via their Facebook page to pick up orders on a Sunday.
Pudding and mince pies
- Filbert’s bakery www.filbertsbakery.com
On Kings Street, Lancaster sell a range of cakes & festive treats, including mince pies made from the summer’s surplus appleswww.filbertsbakery.com
To find even more local food and drink producers search Lancaster’s online local food directory: www.lessuk.org/directory AND if we have missed anyone, let us know and we can get them listed!
Join us at our Mid-Winter Market on the 17th of December @ 10.00-17.00 on Market Square Lancaster – It’s a great chance to source food and ‘sustainable’ gifts for Christmas from small local businesses and community projects – supporting our local sustainable food and crafts economy.
