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Local Food Heroes

Leicester & Leicestershire Food Producers

Brockleby's Farm Shop

Brockleby's Farm are rare breed pig and sheep farmers who also have a farm shop. As well as selling a range of local produce they make award winning Melton Mowbray pork pies.

The shop also has:

A wide range of other pies which are made in the shop itself
A Country Butchery area selling the farm's and other local meat
A Dairy Parlour selling local cheeses, fresh milk, yogurt, cream, butter and ice cream from dairy farms in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire
Vegetable Section selling seasonal veg, fruits and herbs that are locally grown
'Granny's Larder' which sells a range of other local produce

When visited in May 2007 the selection of locally produced food included:

Cheeses from Websters, Leicestershire Handmade Cheese, Quenby Hall and Lincolnshire Poacher
Flour from Claybrooke Mill and Whissendine Windmill
Welland Valley Wine, Beer from Wicked Hathern and Shardlow Breweries, Swithland Spring Water and Lubcloud Milk
Julias Cakes, Jams and Chutneys, and Puddings from Lower Grange Farm, Old Dalby
Hereford Beef from Stathern, Saddleback Pork from Oakley Grange Farm, Hathern, and Hebridean Lamb from Goosenest Farm, Wymeswold