Local Food Heroes in Leicester and Leicestershire, fruit, vegetables and meat.

Local Food Heroes

Farm Shops and Food Producers in Leicestershire

Belvoir Fruit Farms

Belvoir Fruit Farms make a wide range of nutural fruit drinks using fresh fruit from local fruit farmers, flowers and spices. None of the drinks contain colours, flavours or artificial sweeteners. They also make a range of organic drinks.

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Blackbrook Longhorns, Near Whitwick

Spring Barrow Lodge Farm is the home of the Blackbrook Longhorn herd.

Blackbrook LonghornsThey sell Longhorn beef that is slow matured and hung for 4 weeks for maximum flavour. They also sell meat from their Jacob and Suffolk cross mule lambs which is hung for 2 weeks.

Blackbrook Rare breed Welsh Pork is produced for the farm by Brooksby Melton Farm College and Christmas Turkeys supplied by Copas of Berkshire.

Completing the line up is a range of Blackbrook Branded Merchandise – Books, Aprons and Mugs!

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Chocolate Euphoria, Glenfield

Sarah Heathfield of Chocolate Euphoria produces a range of chocolates at her home in Glenfield

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Dobbies Garden Centre, Mancetter

Field to Kitchen area stocks some local produce and operates an online ordering service for delivery in the SW of Leicestershire. Fruit and Veg Box scheme

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Kelly Bronze Turkeys, Frolesworth

Rob & Sue Tallis at Manor Farm, Frolesworth produce turkeys for the Christmas market as franchisees of Kelly Bronze Turkeys. The birds that they sell are reared, slaughtered and prepared on the farm.

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Northfield Farm, Cold Overton

Northfield Farm source and produce premium quality Beef, Lamb and Pork. They sell their own Dexter and White Park Cattle – one of the oldest British Breeds. Their shop also sells a wide range of other meat and local products. A farm walk will keep the kids amused.

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Raw N Pure Organic Box Scheme

Raw N Pure is an organic box scheme retail outlet selling their own and other local growers produce mainly in the NW of the county.

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Woodhouse Farm Shop, Elmesthorpe

The Wincott family at Woodhouse Farm are justifiably proud of their home-made Dry Cure Bacon which won multiple awards at the 2004 British Food Awards. In particular the bacon from their rare breed Tamworth Pigs. The products can be bought from their shop or online.

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Cropwell Bishop Stilton, Nottinghamshire

Manufacturer of Stilton and other cheeses

Website: www.cropwellbishopstilton.com

Read about Stilton Cheese on our Directory - Local Specialities page.

Sealwood Online Shop

Situated a few miles into Derbyshire, Caroline Royston and Andrew Gray at Sealwood Farm are salad producers in their own right, but are primarily listed here because of their online shop which offers such a wide range of local produce for delivery in the West of Leicestershire.

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