Why Choose Local Food? Why Choose Organic Food?
Want to be added to our food map, or know a producer we've missed? Please email us at localfoodmap@foodsmilesstalbans.org.uk.
Click the top left icon to select local producers or organic outlets, and the top right icon to pop the map out into a new page for a larger view.
Local delivery schemes:
Box Local - boxlocalfood.co.uk
Sourcing fresh produce from producers in
and around St Albans and delivering throughout St Albans and parts of Hemel Hempstead each Thursday. Eating
seasonally need not be a challenge! This box delivery service allows you to tailor a delivery to you and
your family’s needs.
The Seasonal Food Company - http://www.theseasonalfoodcompany.co.uk/
Delivering organic, seasonal and
predominantly locally produced fruit and veg to Hertfordshire
and the Essex borders.
Fairhaven Wholefoods - http://www.fairhaven.co.uk/index.asp
Not local produce, but a wide range of organic goods. Based in Letchworth, they deliver to most SG, AL, LU and MK postcodes.
Other Local Producers:
Copley & Buckley
http://www.cbhoney.co.uk/
Raw honey, straight from the comb with as little intervention as possible.
Buy from Carpenter's Nursery (Sandridge, St Albans), Artisan Bakery (Quadrant, St Albans), AC Meats (central St Albans), Jay's Delicatessen (Harpenden).
Country Markets
Homemade baked goods, preserves, garden-grown fruit and vegetables, plants and handmade crafts by local people.
Buy from their stall on St Albans Market and St Albans Farmers Market, or from many other locations around Herts - see their online map at www.country-markets.co.uk/find-a-market
Crayfish Capers
http://www.crayfishcapers.co.uk
Crayfish fishcakes, made from invasive Signal crayfish trapped in local rivers.
Buy from St Albans, Radlett (Battlers Green Farm) and Harpenden farmers markets.
Crumbs 'n' All
http://www.crumbsnall.co.uk/
Caribbean cakes and chutneys.
Buy from St Albans and Harpenden Farmers Markets.
Dizzy Bee Kitchen
http://www.dizzybeekitchen.co.uk/
A range of gorgeous granolas, homemade in St Albans.
Buy from St Albans farmers market, Carpenter's Nursery, Courtyard Cafe, Smokehouse Deli, B Healthy (all in St Albans).
Duchess Oil
http://www.duchessoil.co.uk/store/
Cold pressed rapeseed oil grown and made in Sawbridgeworth.
Buy online only.
FungisToBeWith
http://www.fungistobewith.co.uk/markets-events
Locally foraged and farmed wild fungi (as well as some imported mushrooms).
Buy from Hitchin, St Albans, Hertford and Harpenden farmers markets.
Hertford Porker
http://www.hertfordporker.co.uk
Handmade sausages from locally sourced free-range pork, in natural casings.
Buy from Hertford, Welwyn and Hitchin farmers markets and from Hunsdon store in Hunsdon.
Herts Honey
http://www.hertsbees.org.uk/honey-map/
Please see their local honey map to see all the places you can buy local honey from Herts beekeepers.
Maria's Artisan Bakery
http://www.mariasartisanbakery.co.uk/
Breads, cakes and pastries, handcrafted near Welwyn from organic flour (from Gloucestershire) with no preservatives or artificial additives.
Buy from Bishops Stortford, Great Amwell (Van Hage) and Hertford farmers markets.
Perks Pickles
http://perkspickles.co.uk/
Pickles, relishes, chutneys, sauces and pesto, all homemade in Herts.
Buy from Hertford farmers market and others - see website for a list of events.
Twee
www.tweelife.co.uk
A delicious seasonal range of award-winning jams, chutneys and marmalades, homegrown and homemade in Great Gaddesden. Many ingredients are taken from plot to pot in metres, not miles, reducing food miles and locking freshness into every jar.
Buy from Darvells Bakeries (Berkhamsted
and Chesham), Little Gaddesden Village
Shop, Dunsley Farm Shop (Tring),
P E Meads and Sons Farm Shop
(Wilstone, Tring), Wayside Farm
Shop (Kings Langley), Pecks Farm Shop (Eggington, Leighton Buzzard), Healthfare (Tring), Rumblers Farm Shop (Potten End), Hill Farm Barns Cafe (Ashridge
Estate)