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Buying locally provides vast environmental and social benefits, reducing the number of miles food travels, supporting local farmers, dairies and other local producers whilst satisfying the growing consumer demand for fresh produce, provenance and traceability. The modern consumer expects clear, transparent messages relating to the food and drink they purchase, where it is from and how it is produced.
Our range is not only about great local products – but the story behind them, told by the owners (many of them families) who have spent their lives dedicated to manufacturing high quality food and drink for the local market often using traditional methods of production. You can read the story behind each range and convey it on your own menu if you so wish - helping you achieve a point of difference in the market place.
Supporting Local Suppliers
Produced in Kent is a membership organisation dedicated to developing, promoting and stimulating the market for Kentish products. kff Purchasing and Marketing Director, Stephen Clarke, is a committed board member of Produced in Kent, helping to shape the future of the organisation, local producers and the local community. The working partnership has proven to be a winning combination, enabling kff to develop one of the most extensive and comprehensive local ranges in London and the South East.
Included in our local range you will find...
The Wooden Spoon Preserving Company is a family owned business operating from a converted Oast House located outside the picturesque village of Wye in Kent. The company has been producing award winning jams, marmalades and chutneys by hand for over 30 years using almost exclusively Kentish, but always British Fruit.
Pure and refreshingly healthy, Owlet Premium Fruit Juices are multi-award winning products which are pressed from the finest Kentish fruit grown in the orchards of our farm located in Lamberhurst, Kent.
Based in Filmwell, East Sussex, The Weald Smokery is one of only a handful of food smokers remaining in Britain. The company uses only the finest quality raw produce, as well as a traditional, skilled methods of production.
Produced in Rolvenden Kent, Korkers produce premium sausages using an old fashioned manner using hand piped methods to ensure a coarse textured end product.
Speldhurst Sausages - The finest quality fresh pork sausages are made in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent using a unique and traditional Kentish recipe dating back over 50 years.
Over the last ten years Kentish Mayde has established itself as a producer of high quality products. Supplied chilled, our cold cutting pork pies are handmade and produced using a traditional hot water pastry method.
At Pure Pie, all of our products are handmade, using locally sourced ingredients wherever possible – even our pie makers are local! Working from our small production facilities set in the heart of the Kentish countryside in Biddenden, we aim to deliver delicious tasting premium quality pies to the catering industry.
Kent & Sussex Lamb - Established in 1987, Natural Farms based in Robertsbridge, East Sussex work in partnership with farms in and around Kent and Sussex which share a commitment to high welfare standards, sustainability and traceability.
Supplied by Stephens Fresh Foods, our Kentish Honey Baked Ham is prepared by a team of highly skilled butchers based in Chatham. The meat is soaked in salt brine with a secret mix of added ingredients before being gently steam cooked for at least twelve hours.
From our 250 acre country park in Birchington, Kent, Quex Foods specialise in producing a premium range of local cooking oils and artisan hand cooked crisps using ingredients grown and sourced from the Garden of England.
Produced near Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, all Taywell ice creams and fruit sorbets are handmade without the use of artificial additives, colours, stabilizers or milk powder.
Operating from Lamberhurst Farm in Faversham, Kent, The Cheesemakers of Canterbury produce a range of full flavoured cheeses, made using mostly unpasteurised British Friesian cows milk and British goats milk sourced locally from the surrounding farms in and around Canterbury.
Certified by the Soil Association, High Weald Dairy is a successful family run business producing fantastic cheeses from an organic dairy farm in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. We craft a delicious range of award winning cheeses made from British organic cows milk, conventional and organic sheeps milk and most recently, Kentish goats milk.
Opies Chutneys – Opies was founded in 1880 by Bennett Opie and is located in the heart of the Garden of England, in Sittingbourne, Kent. Its chutneys are produced from Kentish fruits and locally made wine and cider.
Produced by the Speciality Bread Company the Huffkin is a proud survivor of Britain's local baking tradition from the days when every region or town had its own bread specialities. This artisan bread is handmade in Margate, Kent using locally harvested grain from regional millers Heygates and Marriages.
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