Of course some of the products we sell and ingredients we use are far from local but we are still careful with our sourcing, giving priority to quality, artisan foods, organic growing and farily traded production.
| We are keen to source as much of our ingredients
locally, giving preference to fair trading, organic and ethically minded producers.
In Louth we are spoilt for choice for quality butchers offerring complete
traceablility from Lincolnshire farms. Much of the meat we use comes from the
Meridian Meats, just across the road from our shop. Our free range eggs come from
Primrose Hill Farm near Wrgaby, organic chicken from North Somercotes and the local
rivers provide trout for paté and eels for smoking. Of course some of the products we sell and ingredients we use are far from local but we are still careful with our sourcing, giving priority to quality, artisan foods, organic growing and farily traded production. |
 | Tithe Farm, is a smallholding at North Somercotes run by Roxy's parent's Jean and Biff Vernon. They supply us with fresh and dried herbs, vegetables and fruit. Crops are grown according to organic permaculture principles, with no herbicides, pesticides or arteficial fertilizers having been used on the land for over twenty years. They are members of the Wholesome Food Association. |
 | Mount Pleasant Windmill at Kirton in Lindsey is one of our sources of organic flour. |
 | Meridian Meats just across the road at 108 Eastgate, Louth and the farm at Tetford is our main supplier of fresh meat from their Longhorn Cattle and rare breed sheep. |
 | Pipers Crisps from Elsham, near Brigg, are our local producer of great potato crisps. |
 | Vallebona are an Italian family run business that provides us with particularly fine foods from Italy, such as oils and pasta. |
 | Fratelli Camisa are another business of Italian origin but based in London for 70 years bringing us the best of Mediterranean food. |
 | Brindisa import Spanish specialities and supply us from their Borough Market home. |
 | Montezuma's supply us with organic, fairly traded chocolate couverture, real chocolate for real cooking, grown on a co-op in Peru. |
 | The Chocolate Empire because, well, who can resist handmade organic chocolate of this quality? From the Brighton emporium. |
 | Burnt Sugar use Fairtrade sugar from a cooperative in Kenya and turn it into just the bestest of fudge. |
 | Jenny's Jams are made in Lincoln by Jenny in her kitchen. Chutneys, too. |
 | Tea's Me 'ticklishly tasty' hand blended organic herbal teas. |
 | Belvoir Fruit Farms make a delicious range of organic fruit drinks on their farm in the south of the county. |
 | Suma have been the leading wholefoods distributor, spearheading the campaign for ethical trading for over 30 years. We use many of their products in our cooking and baking. |
 | Longley Farm at Holmfirth supply us with butter, yoghurt and soft cheeses. |
 | The Dutch Eel Company are specialists in the smoking of eels to produce a rare delicacy. |
 | London Bio Packaging provide us with more packaging. Some foods do need wrapping, but we encourage our customers to bring their own shopping bags. If it's a special occasion, recycled cardboard cake boxes tied with ribbon are available free of charge on request. |