Scottish Produce From Ochil Foods

Local, Seasonal and Sustainable produce information form Ochil Foods Spring/Summer 2012

Scotherbs, Invergowrie, Perthshire Micro Herbs, Ordinary herbs and an exciting new range of Culinary Herbs including chocolate mint, sweet Cicely, lemon Verbena and lots more – growing at the moment, ready by mid may). Please contact us for ordering details.

Arbuckles Soft Fruit, Invergowrie, Perthshire Fresh Strawberries, Raspberries and Brambles in-season, likely to start mid-may this year.

Auchtertool Sausages and Pubbledub Pork Fantastic Pork Sausages from Pubbledub Farm, Fife Kilduncan Farm Eggs, Kingsbarns We would be happy to supply you with Donald’s free range eggs.

Luvians, Cupar A selection of handmade Sorbets and Ice Cream from Vince Fusaro, Vince has been making Ice Cream for us for over 20 years.

Vince has been the head judge for the Scottish Ice Cream Awards at The Royal Highland Show for the past 6 years .

Game Most of our feathered game is shot locally in Perthshire, Fife and Angus WoodPigeons The majority are coming from Fife at the moment, with a few from Angus and Tayside http://www.thestaffcanteen.com/suppliers-news/ochilfoodspigeon-time-march-to-may/ Venison is all from, Sutherland, West Aberdeenshire, North Perthshire, Inverness-Shire and Rossshire

Summer Harvest Rapeseed Oil – Madderty, Perthshire Dalchonzie Fruit Farm, Comrie, Perthshire Jams, Chutneys, Vinegars and Curds – Comrie, Perthshire

Kenmore Bakery, Loch Tay, Perthshire Double Great Taste Award winning handmade Oatcakes and Tablet

Great Glen Game Venison Charcuterie, Roy Bridge, Fort William Smoked Venison, Chorizo, Salamis etc.. Anja would be happy to send you samples.

Chainbridge Honey Farm, Berwickshire Pure Scottish Honey from Berwickshire, The Robson Family have been keeping bees since 1948 The heather honey is seasonal, flower more abundant.

The only caveat is that the odd bee may have flown across the border to England!!

Scottish Cheese Inverloch Diary, Campbeltown Drumloch Guernsey Milk Truckle, Inverloch Goats Cheese Truckle, Apple Smoked Isle of Kintyre Truckle Highland Fine Cheese, Tain – Rory Stone Moranagie brie, Blue Monday, Strathdon Blue, Gruth Dhu etc.

Isle of Mull Cheese Company, Mull Tobermory Cheddar, Isle of Mull Truckle HJ Errington Cheeses, Lanarkshire Including the Dunsyre Blue and Lanark Blue

Live Shellfish Live Langoustines from Tiree We work with fishermen on Tiree, who catch the most fantastic creel caught Langoustines. In order to get them delivered to your door alive and kicking we only work on a pre-order basis.

To see details please read my blog http://www.thestaffcanteen.com/suppliers-news/ochilfoodslive-creel-caught-langoustines-straight-to-your-kitchen/

Live Lobsters and Crabs from Johnshaven The same principal as the langos in order to get them live and kicking we work on a pre-order basis only. I will be writing a blog in conjunction with our fishermen to let you know about the lobster life and year cycle and the effect this has on volume, quality and price. Keep checking Thestaffcanteen.

Sustainable produce outside of Scotland Shipton Mill Flours, Malmesbury, Wiltshire We are in the process of writing a blog article with them about some of the work they are doing with local farmers. http://www.shipton-mill.com/ Heaves Farm Rose Veal, Cumbria Below is a link to an article I wrote of what make rose veal so sustainable and also a link to a video of the farm. http://www.thestaffcanteen.com/suppliers-news/ochilfoodsbritish-rose-veal-why-we-must-champion-it/

Packington Free Range Chickens, Staffordshire Alec Mercier’s Free Range Chickens are delicious and sustainable. He also has a good business brain through economies of scale and strategic partnerships has managed to get his processing and distribution cost right down, so we can sell this fantastic produce at a sensible price.

Further services from Ochil Foods Video and Blog We will also be writing blogs and making videos throughout the year highlighting some of the skills and work these farmers, fishermen and producers do and also seasonal, local and sustainability issues.

These are available @ http://www.thestaffcanteen.com/supplier/ochilfoods/ Also available on our new blog from June: www.ochilfoods.co.uk

The Sales Team always here to help

Jeremy Dixon Jeremy@ochilfoods.co.uk

Pam Haggart

Annie Dixon

Pam@ochiloods.co.uk

annie@ochilfoods.co.uk

You can find Ochil Foods in all these places:

01764 662 502 http://www.ochilfoods.co.uk