We need to grow food more sustainably and to look after our soils. This can be done productively with a regenerative approach. With fully functioning soils we have the benefits of better nutrition, improved health, an extraordinary ability to sequester carbon and land that promotes clean water systems, is less prone to flooding and has space for wildlife.
We pay far less for our food than we did historically. As a consumer, at home and in business, I believe that paying more for carefully produced food is an important part of the equation; this helps producers to help the environment and care for the soil. With the new Environmental Land Management policies, I hope that the benefits to land and wildlife in this area will grow.
Cherry Gardens Organic Farm and farm shop are growers of organic fruit and vegetables and help me source produce that they do not grow themselves.
Paley Farm is a mixed livestock farm, rearing their 100% grass-fed animals with a sustainable mentality and regenerative practices.
Sankey’s in Tunbridge Wells helps me to source the most sustainable fish from our shores.
Natoora also supplies me with wonderful seasonal produce, sourced from small growers in the UK and Europe who work with their soils for better flavour and nutrition. They have some wonderful and hard to find products, from firm-skinned, flavourful winter tomatoes to chervil, morels and different varieties of artichoke.
Infinity Foods high-quality organic and natural foods: they have a philosophy of providing excellent dried fruit, nuts, seeds, grains and other ingredients, with no unnecessary additives.
Beal’s Farm makes award-winning air dried charcuterie from their own Mangalitsa pigs.
Northiam Dairy supplies me with milk that is unhomogenised, cream and creme fraîche.
There are several wonderful artisan cheese producers nearby too.