Where to buy local food

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Whether or not you grow your own, buying local food is a great way to eat healthily, try new food and support your local shops and farmers.

Be sure to check out our seasonal recipe database, perfect for using up gluts and trying unknown vegetables for the first time.

 

 

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We have also compiled a list of places to buy local food, please let us know if there's somewhere great we haven't listed! You can also download this list as a pdf (119Kb) or view many of these outlets on our local food map together with other resources, such as community food projects.

Other useful resources are the Local Food Advisor website or the littlepurpledot ethical business directory. Unfortunately the Sussex Food Finder website is no longer available, but if you are interested in finding local food suppliers for businesses and markets, please contact us for a list.

Organic veg box delivery schemes


Ashurst Organics

Ashurst Organics is a local organic vegetable box scheme supplying fresh organic vegetables to Brighton, Lewes, Haywards Heath, Eastbourne, and Worthing. Also selling wholemeal bread, apple & pear juice, free-range eggs and fresh herbs.
Contact: 01273 891 219 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://ashurst-organics.weebly.com/


Barcombe Nurseries
Barcombe have been growing vegetables organically and selling them through their box scheme since 1997. They offer different size boxes of vegetables and fruit. They also sell organic apple juice, eggs and honey. Visitors and volunteers are welcome.
Contact: 01273 400 011 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.barcombenurseries.co.uk


Fork & Dig It
This organic community growing project in Stanmer Park is piloting a veg share scheme in summer-autumn 2011. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 07969 805 795 or www.forkanddigit.co.uk


Hankham Organics
Organic vegetable box scheme delivered to your doorstep. There is a strong bias towards leafy salads and herbs but also expect to find over 50 different vegetables in your box throughout the year and you can also add fruit and eggs to your weekly order.
Contact: Miles or Mandy on 01323 741 000 or 07815 019 902 or www.hankhamorganics.co.uk

 

Other veg box schemes
You can also obtain a weekly veg box through one of the University of Brighton's food coop schemes listed below for only £3, whether or not you are a student. Although not as local as the schemes above, Riverford Organics also offer a veg box delivery service in Brighton & Hove, with produce coming largely from Hampshire and Devon and a range of pantry items and drinks on offer as well.

 

Local food shops


Farm
Farm is a farm shop and cafe where you can buy and eat local food under one roof. They also provide outside catering and run a sandwich delivery service. They are located at 99 North Road, Brighton BN1 1YE.
Contact: 01273 623143 or www.sussexfarm.co.uk


Grasmere Farm Shop
Linked to a family-run pork farm in the Northeast, this shop also stocks local, Sussex products such as meats, cheeses and whole foods. 214 Church Road, Hove BN3 2DJ. Contact: 01273 774 194


Grocer and Grain
A grocery store near Brighton Station selling locally grown and produced food, delicious local coffee, homemade cakes, store cupboard essentials, fresh flowers and much more. 1 Surrey Street, Brighton BN1 3PA


Infinity Foods
Brighton-based wholefoods shop and wholesaler, selling a huge array of vegetarian, mainly organic foods. 25 North Road, Brighton BN1 1YA
www.infinityfoods.co.uk

 

Muesli Mountain Market

Local veg stall and more, stocking products from Ashurst Organics and Cuckfield. Based in the garden of the Dover Castle pub, 43 Southover Street, Brighton BN2 9UE. http://mueslimountainmarket.co.uk

 

Nature's Way Market / Hungry Monkeys
A market located in the Poet's Corner area of Hove selling local seasonal veg, bread, honey and jams, cakes and much more. 2a Stoneham Road, Hove BN3 5HJ

 

Park Farm Shop

Family-run business selling local produce. Park Street, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9PG
Contact: 01273 671002 or www.parkfarmshop.co.uk

 

Thorne's

New local food supermarket, butcher, cafe and restaurant, open until 8.30pm. 39 Upper Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 4AN
Contact: 01273 573660 or www.thornesfoods.co.uk

 

University of Brighton Food Co-op

Orders taken each week for the following week - including a very affordable local fruit and veg box (currently £3) plus wholefoods supplied by Infinity Foods. Open to non-students, but all participants must buy a yearly membership for £3 at the Student Union Office. Orders taken on Fridays 12-2pm at the stall in the Cockroft Building on the Moulescoomb campus, Lewes Road BN2 4GN. Or visit the stall at the Grand Parade campus on Mondays on the ground floor, opposite the Gallery, BN2 0JY.
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or http://uobfoodcoop.wordpress.com/


Brighton & Hove Food Markets

  • Churchill Square Farmers Market, every Wednesday, 10am-4pm
  • Fair Trade and Farmers Market, Friends Meeting House, Ship St, 3rd Saturday of each month, 11am-4pm
  • Farm Market, 73 North Road, every Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm
  • Gorgeous George Street Market, 4th Saturday of each month, 10am-2pm
  • Mermaid Market, Brighton Marina Square, every Saturday and Sunday, 11am-4pm
  • Upper Gardner Street Market, every Saturday, 7am-5pm

 

Caterers that use local and seasonal food

  • Cashew Catering – Vegetarian and vegan food. ‘Every effort made to use organic, seasonal and local produce’. Contact: John Bayely, 07786 226220 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / www.cashewcatering.co.uk

  • Community Chef - Provide catering with local produce, as well as demonstrations, tasters and courses. Contact: Robin Creveld, 07766 526217 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.communitychef.org.uk
  • Fresh Feasts - a caterer specialising in delicious, wholesome and natural foods for events (business or pleasure) using seasonal, local ingredients. Contact Rebecca O'Reilly on 07809 608133 or visit www.freshfeasts.com.

  • The Farm – Locally sourced, seasonal produce. Contact: Robin Hodgson, 07801 627998 or www.sussexfarm.co.uk

  • Moveable Feasts - Organic and locally sourced food. Contact: Erika Pratt, 01825 841235 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

  • Temptation - Offer a locally-sourced, lunch delivery service for businesses, client meetings and team events. Contact: Peter Allinson, 01273 673 045 or www.brightontemptation.com 56 Gardner Street, Brighton

 

Meat and fish

Archers, 128 Islingword Road, Hanover, 01273 692324

Long standing master butchers selling a range of organic meats, turkeys from £10/kilo.

 

Ben's Butchers, weekly delivery service of Sussex meat in Brighton & Hove. Call 01273 480976 or visit http://www.bensbutchers.co.uk/

 

Bramptons, 114 St George’s Road, Kemptown 01273 682611
An award-winning butcher selling ‘naturally-reared and fed’ beef, lamb, poultry, homemade sausages, local cheeses, and more. An institution.

 

Brighton Sausage Company, 28a Gloucester Road, BN1 4AQ, 01273 676677
This shop in Brighton's Laines aims for local, natural ingredients and proper animal welfare for its huge range of sausages. www.brightonsausageco.com

 

Canhams, 48 Church Road, Hove 01273 731021

One of the firm favourites for meat eaters in Hove; call to discuss your requirements.

 

Choice Cuts, 95 Preston Drove, Brighton 01273 381616

 

Clayton Organic Farm, Mayfield, 01435 874852

Stocks a wide-range of certified organic meats, delivery available.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / www.henonthegate.com

 

Fish, Aldrington Basin, Portslade BN41 1WF, 01273 430 123

At Fish they use the 4 boats that they own and the 44 small day boats that also land fish into their Shoreham market. The catch is landed the same day straight into their market, sorted by size, then onto the ice in the shop itself.

www.brighton-fish-sales.co.uk

 

Grasmere Farm Shop, 214 Church Road, Hove 01273 774194

Has great selection of speciality sausages and sausage meat and turkeys from £7/kilo.

 

Jessups Farm, Ashurst, 07717 805335 (Lisa Eager)

Selling quality beef, poultry and pork. Collection available from Farm market in Brighton (as above, every Saturday on North Road).


Little Fish Market, 10 Upper Market Street, Hove, 01273 203038

Fishmonger, seafood cafe and deli. Full details of their sourcing policy available at: http://thelittlefishmarket.co.uk/

 

R C Secker, 7 Richardson Road, Hove, 01273 731502

Selling local lamb, Scotch beef, free-range pork, sausages and homemade gluten-free burgers.

 

Ross, hut on Hove seafront, between the King Alfred & the Bowling Green. Open 9am-2pm, Wed-Sat.

Local, in season and ethical fish sold by the people who caught it that morning.

 

Sea Haze at the Brighton Fishing Museum, 201 Kings Road Arches, BN1 1NB

Neil's locally caught fish and shellfish plus Jack & Linda's traditional smoked fish at the Shellfish & Oyster Bar.


Sussex Free Range Turkeys, Billingshurst, 01403 78 44 45

Turkeys from £4.09 per lb (£9 per Kg), needs collection. Subject to availability.

 

Sussex Way Traditional Meats, 07976 536848.

Collection available from George Street farmers market or can arrange to have a meat box delivered to your door. www.sussexway.co.uk

 

Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch, Forest Row, 01273 774194

Organic, biodynamic meat and dairy. Collection from the farm in Forest Row. It may be possible to collect from Farm market in Brighton. Call to enquire.

 

Thorne's, 39 Upper Gardner Street, Brighton, 01273 573660

New local food supermarket with butchery managed and run by Westdene Butchers. www.thornesfoods.co.uk

 

Village Butcher Pie & Sausage Shop, 51 Norfolk Square, Western Road, Brighton, 01273 772534.

A Sussex company using free range meat from East and West Sussex farms. It sells a whopping 30 types of sausages and 15 types of pie. www.villagebutcher.co.uk.

 

Westdene Butchers, 34 Eldred Avenue, Brighton BN1 5EG, 01273 506180

Offering Sussex beef and lamb as well as biltong and other African flavours. Nominated for 2009/10 Sussex Butcher of the Year. www.westdenebutchers.co.uk

 

Know somewhere great we haven’t listed? Please let us know!

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