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Local Food at Charlbury Farmers Market

Held on the Playing Close in Charlbury on the second Saturday of March, June, September, December from 9am-1pm. Stalls include Cornbury Park venison, eggs from Lees Rest Farm, honey from Halcyon Honey Farm, meat from Callow Farm.

Local food for sale in The Good Food Shop

  • Range of cakes from Stratford
  • Eggs from Alvescot
  • Bread made from local flour milled at Wantage and baked at Carterton
  • Flour from Shipton-under-Wychwood
  • Cheese from Stow-on-the-Wold and Kingham
  • Eggs, bacon, sausages, pork and chicken from Callow Farm, Stonesfield
  • Honey, honey marmalade, hand cream and soap from Halcyon Honey Farm, Charlbury
  • Surplus vegetables and fruit from Charlbury gardens (remember to contact Lynne at the shop 811157 if you want to supply some produce too from your own garden)

Local food for sale at New Barn Farm Shop

  • Free range eggs
  • Sausages, bacon, gammon
  • Lamb and beef

Local food for sale at News & Things

  • Cheese and ham from Stow-on-the-Wold

Local food for sale at Co-op Supermarket

  • Field Farm Fresh meat from Appleton (13 miles)
  • Arkells Ales from Swindon (23 miles)
  • Willowbrook organic free range eggs from Hampton Gay (9 miles)
  • Matthews flour from Shipton-under-Wychwood (5 miles)
  • Oxford Table Sauce from Worminghall (18 miles)
  • Winstone Ice Cream from Stroud (33 miles)
  • Vegetables from Worcestershire (17 miles)
  • Wychwood Ale from Witney (6 miles)
  • Hayles fruit from Chipping Camden (20 miles)
  • Bottlegreen cordial from Woodchester (34 miles)
  • Oxford Wholefoods from Oxford (12 miles)
  • Hook Norton ale from Hook Norton (8 miles)
  • Apples and pears from the UK

Local food through Chipping Norton Organics veg box scheme

This week's summary list shows what can be bought this week - they are listed by country of origin. Often UK items are from Worcestershire.

Local food through buy-LOCAL Oxford (part of buy-LOCAL.net).

This supplies a range of Oxfordshire grown or sourced goods, including pork, lamb and beef, fresh fruit and vegetables, artisan biscuits and chocolates and even turkeys. They deliver to your home on Fridays, the same day they collect from the local suppliers.

Local food from Eynsham

Millwood Gardens - new market gardeners from Long Hanborough - sell their organic produce on a Saturday morning outside the Emporium in Mill Street.

Eynsham Country Market is held every Thusday morning in St Leonards Church Hall at 9am. They sell fruit & veg, home-made cakes, honey, eggs and some locally made crafts. The Market is a co-operative - you can sell as well as buy there. Secretary Pat Atkins 881 677.

Natural Bread Company opened their new shop at 1 Mill Street, Eynsham in February 2010. They also sell their wonderful range of bread (including sourdoughs) each Sunday morning at Wolvercote Farmers Market and at the Oxford Farmers Market held on 1st and 3rd Thursdays each month at Gloucester Green. In May 2010 they also opened a new shop in Woodstock at 30 High Street open Tuesday-Saturday 8am-4.30pm.

Worton Farm has a farm shop at Cassington near Eynsham where they sell their own local organic vegetables as well as organic veg sourced elsewhere.

Local food in and around Oxford

Daily Information provide a useful summary of Pick Your Own sites near Oxford as well as a summary of food suppliers including farmers markets and farm shops. Wolvercote Farmers Market runs every Sunday morning 10am-1pm in Wolvercote Primary School, stalls vary each week but both Worton Farm and the Natural Bread Company are there every week.

Have you checked out our Food section yet?

There are local recipes and articles and tips about growing your own food, as well as links to TV and radio programmes about food and agriculture.

 


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