Our Makers

"Provenance with Passion. Farming with full traceability since 1995."

We are delighted to stock the products that Direct Meats produce in our hampers. In May 1995, Direct Meats Ltd was founded by third generation local farmer Martin Blackwell. Coming from a large faring family in North Essex, with a passion for quality meat Martin recognised a gap in the market for a specialist meat provider. 

Specialising in premium quality meats, Boston Sausage are a fourth generation family business. 

We are proud to stock Mountain’s Boston Sausage products within our hampers. Their butchers shop was first established in 1852, and it traded as a general butchers until 1985, it was then decided to concentrate on premium pork products and they thus specialize in Lincolnshire Sausages. They are currently in the fourth generation of the Mountain Family.

For Peter's Yard, 'Good things take time'. This is why they make crispbreads in small batches.

We are proud to stock Peter’s Yard within our hampers. They craft their products within small batches, and without cutting corners to ensure their award winning flavour and crunch. Their most important ingredient is time. Everything begins with their 45 year-old sourdough starter, fermented for 16 hours. They then allow time for each cracker to cook and to cool to irresistible crispness, this is time well spent.

White Heron have over 140 years’ experience in growing the finest blackcurrant and raspberries, and transforming them into luxury liqueurs.

Their farm, the Whittern Estate is nestled in the rolling hills of North Herefordshire. Once a mixed arable farm, the family chose to take the road less travelled: cultivating blackcurrants, a quintessential flavour of the British countryside. Their blackcurrant liqueur is intensely fruity, whilst not being too sweet and their raspberry liqueur is as vibrant in taste as it is colour.

Myers, a traditional bakery in Horncastle have been producing the finest artisan breads, pastries and many other morning goods since 1901.

The family run business have won many awards for their products and continue to use the same recipes that have been in the family for four generations.

Cartmel started baking Sticky Toffee puddings in the back kitchen of their Village Shop a good 20 years ago.

Word soon got out and it seemed like everyone wanted some, so they had to move to a bigger kitchen. But however busy they are, it’s still handmade, and there’s still nothing to match it.

Potts Partnership is literally that – a partnership of Potts.

Owen Potts utilises his 20 years' experience of development and manufacturing in the fine foods industry to create our products, while Michelle Potts deals with sales and customer service. Potts Partnership began in late 2007 in the kitchen of the family's Marlborough home, and its first sauces launched in spring 2008.

'Produced in partnership with our Holstein cows'

Simon Jones, who started to make the multi-award winning Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese, is the fourth generation to be running the farm, which has been in the family since 1917. It is situated on the edge of the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds about ten miles from the east coast. The lush pastures sit on chalky land, which enables him to have a successful dairy herd in an area where dairy farms are very scarce and cheese making is virtually unknown.

'Live life in full flavour'

The Belazu Ingredient Company source and create authentic Mediterranean ingredients that are trusted and loved by chefs and consumers alike. School friends, Adam and George. They visited George's mum, Ailsa in Provence, 1991. She took them to the local market where they sampled the best quality olives that people in Britain could only dream of. They took ten buckets back to England, and their first customer was in Oxford. The Fresh Olive Company was established, in turn this evolved into Belazu.

The Wilkin family have been farming at Tiptree, Essex, since 1757, and making quality preserves since 1885.

They grow a wide range of traditional English fruits and use them to make conserves, condiments, and other treats in their nut-free factory by the farm. They received their first Royal Warrant from George V in 1911, and remain Royal Warrant holders as purveyors of Tiptree Products to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. 

Alfred Enderby has been smoking salmon and haddock in a wonderfully traditional way for over 100 years.

Their traditional smokehouse in Grimsby, with its distinctive ornate iron cowls, is roughly a century old, with two generations of the Enderby family involved in running it for two-thirds of that time. They pride themselves on the high quality of skill and craftsmanship that goes into their now award-winning smoked fish products.