Why you should choose Chester’s produce

When we think of locally sourced produce we tend to imagine goods such as meat and vegetables. The quality and variety of locally produced merchandise in Chester extends way beyond just this.

Using the glorious surrounding countryside suppliers are able to bring to us all the conceivable commodities we use in our daily lives.

The benefits of using locally produced goods speak for themselves! No longer do we experience any guilt about the consequences that excessive packaging or lengthy transportation may have on the future of our environment. We may allow ourselves to be satisfied that we are doing our bit in maintaining a healthy world for generations to come. As a reward we receive high-quality superior tasting food, virtually straight from field to plate, full of all the essential nutrients and vitamins we need to help establish a healthy balanced diet.

Eating Chester food not only fulfils all these requirements but facilitates in supporting the local economy, enabling local farmers and suppliers to stay in business, provide jobs to our community and in keeping overall costs of locally produced goods at lower rates so that we can all enjoy them.

If you run a Chester restaurant and use these suppliers for your daily menus, please contact us so that we add you to our ‘Directory of Businesses in Chester which use locally sourced produce’ – COMING SOON.

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Chester Farmer’s Markets

One of the best ways to investigate the local produce available in Chester is to attend one the regularly held Farmer’s Markets in the city.

The Grovesnor Garden Centre holds a Farmer’s Market every second Friday of the month from 10am to 3pm.

Chester Local Producer’s Market is held on the first Wednesday of every month in the Town Hall Square from 10.30am to 4.30pm.

 

Range of products

Chester’s local suppliers can offer you a complete array of products whether to suit  your daily life or for a special occasion.

Below are a few of the local suppliers of : bakery and confectionary goods, brewers and wine-makers, fish, meat, fruit and vegetables, dairy and egg products,  and other goods such as mustards, flour and honey.

If you know of any not on our list or have a particular favourite, please contact us so we can share your positive experience of using local produce.

 

Dairy

Cheshire Farm Ice Cream, Drumlan Hall, Newton Lane, Tattenhall, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 9NE, 01829 770 995

The Cheese Shop, 116 Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 2HT, 01244 346240

Express Dairies Milk, Saughall Road, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 4BH, 01244 373355

International Dairy Brokers, 14 Nicholas Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 2NX, 01244 348 866

JE Brown, New Dairy Farm, Elton, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 4LJ, 01928 725 130

R T Fitton, Clay Pits Manor, Rowton, Cheshire, CH3 6AX, 01244 335 598

Tattenhall Dairy Products, Drumlan Hal Farm, Newton Lane, Newton by Tattenhall, Cheshire, CH3 9NE, 01829 771 161

Gatesheath Farms Ltd,Chester Road, Gatesheath, Tattenhall, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 9AH, 01928 734 544, producers of Perchery barn brown eggs, vegetarian hens.

HS Bourne, The Bank, Malpas, Cheshire, SY14 7AL, 01948 770 214

Leigh’s Family Farm Eggs, Manor Farm, Dunkirk, Mollington, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 7LZ, 01244 851223

 

Mollington Farms Limited. Grange Farm, Mollington, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6NP, 01244 851982

 

Fruit and Vegetables

Eddisbury Fruit Farm, Yeld Lane, Kelsall, Cheshire, CW6 0TE, 01829 759 157

Willington Fruit Farm, Hillside Farm, Willington, Nr Tarporley, Cheshire, CW6 0PH, 01829 751 216

Garden House Farms

North West Produce, 6H Chesterbank Business Park, River Lane, Chester, Cheshire, CH4 8SL, 01244 681 909

Hawarden Castle Fruit Farm, Broughton Road, Broughton, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 533442

 

Pentre Farm, Wepre Lane, Northop Hall, Cheshire, 01244 815970

 

Meat

Stuart Bebbington, Chester Market

EW Edge and son, 55-56 Handbridge, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 675 156

C S Austin Butcher, 132 Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 320734

 

W Dutton (Purveyors of English Meat), 4a Church Street, Kelsall, Cheshire, 01829 751355

 

W Ernest Edge & Son, 54-56 Handbridge, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 675156

 

Stamford Heath Farm, Stamford Lane, Christleton, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 335565

 

S A Vaughan,Wood Lane, Penyffordd, Chester, Cheshire, CH4 OJN, 01244 543102

 

 

Fish and Game

Charles Brickland, 36 Faulkner Street, Hoole, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 346 622

Sell in season fish and game and sources wild salmon and sea trout from the River Dee

Delicatessen

DeliKate, 11 Handbridge, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 677 112, selling locally produced bread by Born and Bred alongside Mrs Appleby’s Cheshire Cheese.

Bakers and Confectioners

 

P & A Davies (Chester) Limited, Newtown Bakery, Trafford Street, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 381567

 

Galloway Patisserie, Unit 7a, Barrowmore Estate, Great Barrow, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 7JA

 

Harrisons The Bakers Limited, 51 High Street, Tarporley, Cheshire, 01829 732041

 

Sullivan and Allan, 10a Faulkner Street, Hoole, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 3BD, 01244 340505

 

Wallis Bakery, 32-34 Chester Street, Saltney, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 677551

 

Weinholts of Chester, 26 Handbridge, Chester/25 Northgate Street, Chester/

11 Mill Lane, Upton, Chester, Cheshire, 01244 675494

 

Brewers and Wine Makers

 

Weetwood Ales Limited, Weetwood Grange, Weetwood, Kelsall, Cheshire, CW6 ONQ, 01829 752377

 

The Plassey Brewery, The Plassey, Eyton, Nr Wrexham, LL13 OSP, 01978 780922

Farm shops

The Produce Market, Town Hall Square, first Wednesday of every month from 9am -4pm

Booths in Knutsford, Cheshire

Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, Chester Road, Hawarden, Flintshire, CH5 3FB, 01244 533 442

Tatton Park Housekeeper Store

Davenports Farm Shop, Bridge Farm, Warrington Road, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 4QU, 01606 853 241

The Hollies Farm Shop, Little Budworth, Cheshire, CW6 9ES, 01829 760 414

Rose Farm Shop, Utkinton, Nr Tarporley, Cheshire, CW6 0LP, 01829 732 978

Alcumlow Hall Farm, Chance Hall Lane, Moreton Cum Alcumlow, Cheshire, CW12 4TL, 01260 299 090

Other Goods

Chocolate

CocoaSolid UK, 8 Barrowmore Estate, Great Barrow, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 7JA, 01829 741 010

Baby food

So Baby Ltd, Harvest House, Drumlan Hall Farm, Newton Lane, Tattenhall, Cheshire, CH3 9NE, 01829 772 555

Wholemeal flour

Bunbury Water Mill, Mill Lane, Bunbury, Tarporley, Cheshire, 01829 261422

 

Mustards and vinegars

Taylors, Canalside, Tattenhall Road, Newton-by-Tattenhall, Tattenhall, Chester, Cheshire, 01829 771166

 

Honey

Church Farm Honey, Sealand Road, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6BS

 

John Van Suchtelen, Lichfield House, High Street, Tarvin, Chester, Cheshire, 01829 740423

 

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