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Where to buy local produce in and around Peterborough
Getting hold of local produce is easier than you may think, wherever you live in Peterborough or surrounding areas:
Getting hold of local produce is easier than you may think, wherever you live in Peterborough or surrounding areas:Farmers' markets:
Peterborough Farmers' Market: second and fourth Thursday of every month.
Peterborough City Market: Tuesday to Saturday every week.
Oundle Farmers' Market: second Saturday of every month.
Stamford Farmers' Market: every second Friday.
Farm shops:
Riverford on Sacrewell Farm (previously known as River Nene Organic Vegetables) offers a home delivered box scheme including organic vegetables grown at Sacrewell Farm, meats, wine, milk, farm flour, juices and much more.
Sacrewell Farm and Country Centre, Great North Road, Thornhaugh, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8 6HJ, telephone 01733 248458 or visit www.riverfordsacrewell.co.uk.
Vine House Farm Shop offer a variety of organic vegetables and potatoes as well as free range and organic meat.
Vine House Farm and Farm Shop, Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, PE11 3DG, telephone 01775 630208 or visit www.vinehousefarm.co.uk.
Moor Farm Shop are regulars at the Peterborough Famers' Market on the second and fourth Thursday every month. They offer free range, home-grown beef and lamb as well as other local produce at www.moor-farm.com.
Hill Farm offers pick-your-own strawberries plus other seasonal fruit and veg and Moor Farm meat. Open Tuesday to Sundays from June to October.
Run by J F B Ivens and Partners, Hill Farm, Chesterton, Peterborough, PE7 3UA. Telephone 01 733 233270 or visit www.pick-your-own.org.uk/hill_farm.htm.
Supermarkets that stock local food:
Most supermarkets offer some local produce, although the definition of 'local' varies between stores. Most define a product "local" if it is made within a 30-mile radius of the branch where it is sold.
Waitrose offers a wide selection of local produce in their Peterborough store, which is in Queensgate. Look out for Watergull Orchards Apple Juice, Norfolk Ice Cream, and Elgood's Black Dog Beer.
Sainsbury's offers strawberries from East Anglia, turnips and onions from Cambridgeshire, as well as milk and cheese from local farms.
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Details correct at 25/05/2009.
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