From farm to festive table: celebrate Chilterns produce this Christmas
From frosty beechwoods to the glow of village lights – there’s something magical about Christmas in the Chilterns.
Want to add some Chilterns flavours to your table this Christmas?
In the run up to the festive season, we’re featuring some of our Farmer Cluster members and Farming in Protected Landscapes contacts who sell direct to customers. From award-winning cheeses and pasture-fed beef to succulent turkeys, sparkling wines, and bustling farm shops stacked with handmade treats, the Chilterns National Landscape is full of local producers who make Christmas taste extraordinary.
Whether you’re planning a traditional feast that showcases the best of local flavours or simply want to support local businesses, the Chilterns is full of festive goodness.
Meat and poultry
Lacey’s Family Farm (Lane End) – All the festive favourites for your Christmas dinner, from turkey and glazed ham to pigs in blankets and milk from the dairy herd.
Native Beef (Chalfont St. Giles) – An alternative to Christmas turkey, try some quality, pasture-fed beef or lamb from Bailey Hill Farm.
Buckmoorend Farm (Butler’s Cross) – A farm shop full of festive goodies from stocking fillers to homemade hampers, as well as home-reared beef and lamb, locally-sourced pork, turkeys, ducks, geese, and everything in between.
St Margarets Turkeys (Great Gaddesden) – Quality free range white turkeys are all hand plucked and hung for 7-10 days allowing for a tastier, fuller flavour and the perfect centre piece for your Christmas dinner.
Collings Hangar Farm (Prestwood) – KellyBronze turkeys are sold from the farm at Christmas alongside home-reared, free range pork, sausages and bacon.
Blue Tin Produce (Ipsden) – The farm rear and sell free range pork and beef, and sell other meat and locally sourced items in the farm shop.
Westmill Farm (Ickleford) – Grass-fed lamb boxes available for pre-order. Full lamb £220, half lamb £140. Free delivery. Call 07519 055139.
Venison: a sustainable red meat alternative
Venison is an environmentally friendly and sustainable red meat alternative. If you’re looking for something different this Christmas, consider a venison joint from a local Chilterns producer.
Greenfield Venison at The Tree Barn (Christmas Common) – The Tree Barn is a small family business and Christmas Tree farm in South Oxfordshire, where you can buy your Christmas tree, and wild venison is available to purchase seasonally in the Christmas shop, or the rest of the year by newsletter.
Oxfordshire venison – Fresh, locally processed and packaged in South Oxfordshire delivered to your door.
Chiltern venison – Central Chilterns venison supplier available to order, purchase from farm shops or order at restaurants.
Cheese, wine and other
Nettlebed Creamery (Nettlebed) – Farmhouse producers of ward-winning organic artisan cheese, milk and kefir with seasonal activities and cheese-making courses.
Woodfine Wine (Seer Green) – Looking for a locally-produced wine to gift your host on Christmas day? Try organic vineyard Woodfine wines for a taste of the Chilterns.
JoJo’s vineyard (Russell’s Water) – JoJo’s vineyard is situated in the chalky slopes of the Chiltern Hills, near Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
Mrs Middleton’s rapeseed oil (Luton) – Looking for a Christmas gift for a keen cook? Mrs Middleton’s rapeseed oil is produced from the highest quality seed which is grown on the family farm in Bedfordshire.
Promised Land eggs (Lacey Green) – Fancy eggs for breakfast on Christmas day? Get regular egg deliveries straight to your door.
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