We are a small family run preserves company...

We are a small family run preserves company based in the wonderful rolling countryside on the Essex/Suffolk border. Libby and her husband, Ted, started growing, picking and preserving when Libby could no longer work as a management consultant due to illness. It reawakened a passion kindled in her as a child, brought up on a smallholding in Wales, being taught to cook by her mother whilst standing on a chair at the Aga. Time spent with Ted’s family on the remote, mountainous sheep farm in South Africa taught her different preserving techniques and how to make the best of what is seasonal and around us. Many of us have lost this skill since the advent of air freight and supermarkets ensured that fruit and vegetables are no longer seasonal and as a result food has often lost its flavour. We seek to reawaken the love of local preserves by using our wonderful seasonal local produce.

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2020 Kicks Off!

The first Sudbury farmers market takes off this Friday in St Peter’s. Then on Sunday we will be on the Cornhill Square in Ipswich. Both great markets and well worth a visit. So if you enjoyed any of our products over Christmas then come and restock!

Happy New Year

If it’s not too late we would like to wish all our customers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2020. Our first markets this year will be the Sudbury farmers market in St Peter’s on Friday 29th January, followed by the Ipswich farmers market on the Cornhill Square on Sunday 2nd February. Both are excellent markets

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The Program for November!

The plan is: 21st November (Thursday) – Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre. We will be on Buttermarket with the Farmers market. 23rd November (Saturday) – Tudor Christmas market and Craft Fair. Grange Barn at Coggeshall. 24th November (Sunday) – Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre. Back on Buttermarket. 29th November (Friday) – Sudbury farmers market. 30th

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Pattocks Farm Open Day on Sunday

We will be missing the Ipswich Farmers Market this Sunday 3rd November, but instead will be at Pattocks Farm at Chappel for the Open Day. Come and have a look at the Christmas turkeys, marvel at the huge farm machinery and buy some tasty goodies from the stalls. The Barron’s have only done this once

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Ipswich Farmers Market on Sunday

We will be at the monthly farmers market on the new Cornhill Square again this Sunday 6th October. Come and see where the Cornhenge isn’t! And pick up all kinds of delicious products at the same time. We’ve been making Hawthorn Jelly, Come and get some before Cambridge University take it all!

A fun day in Maldon

We’re at the Family Fun Day in Promenade Park in Maldon on Saturday afternoon. It’s also the day of the Maldon Regatta! So with the weather set fair it should be a great day out. We’ve been making Blackberry and Elderflower Conserve this week. And the first of this season’s Hawthorn Jelly.

A cooking weekend

We’re at home this weekend 7/8 September, but will be very busy making jams with the new season stone fruit, greengages, Victoria plums, apricots and of course fig conserve. Next Saturday 14th we have a busy day at the Bures Farmers Market then a dash over to Gestingthorpe for the Gestupfest, which sounds like a

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