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We are passionate about using only the best local/regional/seasonal British food that we can buy or grow/make ourselves. A big thanks again to our suppliers who have helped us to win our Awards in 2006, 2007, 2008/2009.
We are proud to say that all of our cooked breakfast ingredients have travelled less than 5 miles from Fern Cottage which not only means they're fresh and support our local community, but has travelled with a minimum amount of miles. Our evening meals are prepared using local Venison from Dyrham Park 1.5 miles away, Pork from PJs Farm 4.5 miles away and seasonal British winter vegetables (using locally produced where possible)
We try to keep imported food to an absolute minimum. We also grow all our own fruit and vegetables without the use of pesticides or chemicals. Here’s a list of where we get our food from (see the bottom for supplier visits we are able to arrange)
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Bread Food Miles 1 Local Produce |
Pucklechurch Bakery 25 Westerleigh Road, Pucklechurch, Bristol, BS16 9RB Traditionally made farmhouse granary and farmhouse white bread and is suitable for vegetarians. They’re great, if we’re late collecting our order, they phone to make sure we haven’t forgotten. |
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Organic Yoghurts Food Miles 14 ½ Local Produce |
Yeo Valley Organic Yoghurt, Blagdon, Nr Bristol Delicious organic yoghurts from this local company – thick and creamy, perfectly complimenting our homemade/homegrown fruit compote which is layered between the yoghurt. |
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Old English Rare Breed Sausages Food Miles 4 ½ Local Produce
Free Range Kidneys Food Miles 4 ½ Local Produce
Jamie’s Maple Cured Bacon Food Miles 4 ½ Local Produce
Pork Shoulder Food Miles 4 ½ Local Produce |
PJ's Farm
c/o Copperfield Farm, Marshfield Lane, Beach, Bristol, BS30 6NP Jamie supplies us with delicious sausages, bacon and fresh kidneys from his rare breed pigs. Jamie has been breeding free range rare breeds British Lop pig on his dad’s Farm Assured Farm (Copperfield Farm). “In 2005 there were only 136 registered sows, putting them at the top of the rare breed list as an endangered breed but with Jamie’s success story he is helping to prevent them from becoming extinct. We have known Jamie and his parents (Mike and Shelley) for approximately 13 years) and were delighted to find that he was starting this venture in 2004 which helped us with our search for excellent local produce. Jamie and his dad Mike have offered to host visits by guests wishing to see his rare breed free range pigs with their piglets. Visits must be pre-arranged through Sue. We wanted to give guests the opportunity to taste Jamie’s delicious bacon that he has just started having specially cured by Award Winning Manor Kitchen for him. Grilled to perfection, the fat is crisp and brown. Wonderful flavour – we’re using it in our “Special” – “Fern Cottage Fresh Herb Omlette” using our own home grown chives and parsley filled with Jamie’s maple cured bacon and sautéed mushrooms and a grilled tomato from Jeff at Siston Court Nursery. Delicious! We are using Jamie's delicious free range pork chops in our "Country Pork Parcel" evening meal recipe - absolutely delicious!
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Maple Cured Bacon Food Miles 2 ½ Local Produce |
Manor Kitchen, Staple Hill (Taste of the West Award Winners) 3 Soundwell Road, Staple Hill, Bristol BS16 4QG Well done to Beth and Russ for achieving a Silver Award from Taste of the West Food & Drink Awards 2007 for their Home Made Maple Cured Bacon. We knew it was good!! The bacon is specially cured for us by Manor House Kitchens, 3 Soundwell Road, Staple Hill, Bristol. The shop has been in the same family for over 100 years – worth a trip – they have won Gold Taste Awards for their hams that are cooked on the premises, as well as pies, pasties etc and their own special curing. During the winter they even have an open log fire in the shop to warm visitors. Beth and Russ have such a dedicated commitment to their delicious artisan cured meats – they have helped us enormously with their continuing encouragement with our business – Thank you Beth and Russ! |
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Apple Juice Food Miles 30 Local Produce |
Days Cottage, Upton Lane, Brookthorpe, Glos GL4 OUT Gloucestershire (Winners of the Taste of the West Award) Nearly 100 year old Gloucestershire Orchards carefully tended by Helen and Dave. Their commitment to producing such a wonderful product is truly inspiring – going to farmers markets, selling to large restaurants, retailers and cafes etc and small B & Bs like us, then taking the trouble to get someone from the farmers market to drop off cases of apple juice at Tytherington Post Office and General Stores – (thank you ladies) for us to collect from them. We can also arrange for guests to visit Dave and Helen’s orchard, juicing system, stores and cider house to sample some of their unique range of products. This will need advance booking. Bottles of Days Cottage Apple Juice can also be purchased from the Breakfast Room. |
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Organic Jersey Milk, Butter, Clotted Cream and Double Cream Food Miles 25 ½ Local Produce
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Ivy Farm Beckington, Frome, Somerset Supplied by Hobbs Bakery, in the Medieval Town of Chipping Sodbury. Well worth a visit for their super range of cakes, pastries and fantastic range of speciality breads. |
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Tomatoes (when ours aren't ready) Food Miles 0 Local / Home Grown Produce
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Siston Nursery (attached to 16th Century Siston Court) (2 fields away) We’ve known Jeff for 12 years when he used to come to Fern Cottage to take away our free horse manure. He works completely on his own, in his walled nursery and lives in the North Wing of Siston Court. He grows tomatoes, cucumbers, runner beans, beetroot, leeks, squash, marrows, courgettes, lettuce, cabbages, herbs, bedding plants and more besides. We buy his tomatoes when ours aren't ready or are finished. |
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Potatoes Food Miles 0 Home Grown Produce
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Edgar Webb, Gingells Farm (1 field away) The potatoes used in my homemade potato and chive griddle scones and are grown in the field at the back of our field. They are so fresh, that they are dug and passed over the hedge to us as soon as they are dug. Edgar Webbs farm is just along the road – Gingells Farm and sacks of his lovely fresh potatoes can be purchased for £6.00 a bag. |
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Eggs Food Miles 0 Home Grown Produce
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Our own delicious ones of course! We have now added Cream Legbar chicks to our ever growing chicken keeping. We have 14 Cream Legbars that lay blue shelled eggs. We bought all 14 of them at the age of 6 weeks to bring on ourselves to make us more sustainable in eggs. We are just about to get 10 quails that we will be using to supply us with lovely fresh eggs in our speciality breakfast menu recipes. Watch out for the on-line diary on the bottom of page 1 of our website for more details. |
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Jams/Marmalades Food Miles 0 Local / Home Grown Produce
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All the jams and marmalades are homemade by us: Raspberry and Redcurrant Jam, Raspberry Jam, Plum and Apple Jelly, *Seville Orange Marmalade,Strawberry Jam, Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam, Damson Jam, Plum Jam, Blackberry and Apple Jam. We grow the following fruit at Fern Cottage to make into jams/marmalades: rhubarb, raspberries, redcurrants, damsons, plums, blackberries and apples. The strawberries are hand picked by us at St Aldams Farm or Frome Valley Farm Pick Your Own Farms. *This year we have used organic Seville oranges to make our marmalade from www.huertavemaria.com and organic lemons |
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Shortbreads in rooms Food Miles 4 Local Produce
Biscuits in rooms |
Marshfield Bakery Tolldown Barn, Tolldown, Dyrham, Wiltshire, England, SN14 8HZ Try and resist these delicious mini shortbreads from chocolate tiffen, chocolate caramel, cherry shortbread, chocolate chip shortbread, cherry sandwich shortbread, strawberry sandwich shortbread, blackcurrant shortbread. We can make up gift selection packs to purchase from the breakfast room. Chocolate tiffins are in very short supply due to my “quality control” testing! Marshfield Bakery have now introduced a wonderful range of biscuits called "The Three Shires" and "Mummers" biscuits and having had the great ordeal of testing them, we now have them in our guests' rooms - forget the diet!! |
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Naturally Smoked Haddock Food miles 30 Local Produce
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David Felce Smokery, Water Lane Farm, Randwick, Nr Stroud, Glos GL6 6EW We met David at the Bristol Farmers Market where we took a sample of his own naturally smoked fish home to try. The smoked haddock was delicious, so we have now added them to our list of suppliers. |
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Sue's Home Made Granola |
I didn't realise that home made granola would taste so good - so easy to make and the best thing is that it's packed full of delicious nuts, oats, honey, maple syrup, berries, coconut and raisins. What a fantastic start to your breakfast! | |
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Herbal Teas Food Miles 15 ½ Local Produce
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Pukka Herbs, The Old Sawmill, Home Farm, Barrow Court Lane, Barrow Gurney, Bristol, BS48 3RW What a wonderful selection of herbal teas from this local company including: “Revitalise, Refresh, Relax, Clarity, Love, Detox, Pleasure, Cleanse, Harmonise, Protect” – something for everyone! This is the first time that I’ve found herbal teas that actually taste even better than they smell and they smell wonderful – you can really taste every separate ingredient in each sachet! |
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Soft Fruit Food Miles 1 ½ Local Produce
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St Aldams Farm, Westerleigh Road, Pucklechurch, Bristol, BS16 9PY We go to the pick your own at St Aldams Farm for raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, strawberries for making my homemade jams when ours aren't ready or if we haven't got enough! |
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Local Honey Food Miles 6 ½ Local Produce
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Frome Valley Farm Shop Bristol Road, Frampton Cotterell, BS36 2AR We purchase local honey and go to Frome Valley Farm Shop to do Pick Your Own Fruit such as strawberries and raspberries etc. |
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Water Food Miles 0 Local Produce
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In line with our environmental policy, we have decided that we can no longer supply bottled water in the rooms due to the impact of plastic bottles on the environment (which we have recycled until now). Instead we supply each room with a stainless steel jug of filtered water which we are happy to replenish when required. We have a water filtration system fitted to our cold water. |
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Tea Food Miles 77 ½ Regional Produce
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Miles West Country Tea The Vale Yard, High Street, Porlock, Somerset, TA24 8PU As well as providing Miles Tea and Coffee at breakfast for guests, we have been able to source their tea, coffee, hot chocolate and decaffeinated coffee in sealed envelopes for our guests hospitality tray. Their hot chocolate is to die for – wonderful at bedtime, mid-morning or any excuse!! Miles West Country Tea is part of the Ethical Tea Partnership |
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Naturally Pressed Rapeseed Oil Food Miles 25 Local Produc
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R-Oil Stow on the Wold We use this locally made rapeseed oil for cooking. It tastes more like a good quality olive oil which is probably because it is naturally pressed by Robert and Hamish Campbell from Stow on the Wold. We use it to fry our own delicious eggs and also drizzle a little over Jamie’s free range sausages - wonderful. |
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Venison and Cheese Food Miles 1 Local Produce
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Cotswold Edge Farm Shop, Pucklechurch We are lucky to be able to use venison (wild roe deer) in our winter casseroles from Dyrham Park National Trust property 1.5 miles away and also from the Duke of Beaufort Estate (20 minutes drive away - red deer which is available all year round) which we buy from Cotswold Edge Farm Shop. We buy Lyecross Cheese, stilton and brie from Redhill, Bristol from our local Cotswold Edge Farm Shop in Pucklechurch village. |
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We also have a selection of our local suppliers “goodies” for sale, such as the Days Cottage Apple Juice, Marshfield Miniature Shortbreads, jars of local honey, home made Seville orange marmalade made from organic oranges and lemons, as well as home made chutneys and pickles. We hope you enjoy the food during your stay and knowing where it’s come from and how fresh it is - Sue and Pete
Local Supplier Visits
PJ's Farm (4 ½ miles away)
Jamie has been breeding free range rare breeds British Lop pig on his dad’s Farm Assured Farm (Copperfield Farm). “In 2005 there were only 136 registered sows, putting them at the top of the rare breed list as an endangered breed but with Jamie’s success story he is helping to prevent them from becoming extinct. We have known Jamie and his parents (Mike and Shelley) for approximately 13 years) and were delighted to find that he was starting this venture in 2004 which helped us with our search for excellent local produce. Jamie supplies us with delicious sausages, bacon and fresh kidneys from his rare breed pigs. Jamie and his dad Mike have offered to host visits by guests wishing to see his rare breed free range pigs with their piglets. Visits must be pre-arranged through Sue.
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Days Cottage, Upton Lane, Brookthorpe, Glos GL4 OUT Gloucestershire
40 minutes drive
away. Details supplied from their web site:
Our local supplier Days Cottage who make our apple juice have kindly agreed to host visits from Fern Cottage guests by advance booking. David and Helen are happy to show you around their lovely orchards, juicing system, stores and cider house, where you can sample some of their unique range of products. “Award winning Day’s Cottage Pure Apple Juice is made with apples from traditional, mature orchards in Gloucestershire. The fruit comes only from unsprayed orchards, and dozens of different varieties are used, some unique to the county, including Newton Wonder, Pippins, Bramley, Blenheim Orange, Tom Putt, John Standish, Taynton Codlin, Jubilee, Ashmead’s Kernel and Underleaves. These give flavours unobtainable from modern commercial fruit, and can be enjoyed as unusual single varieties or as carefully blended juices. We also make a range of Ciders and Perry (pear cider), fermented and matured in oak barrels”. If you are interested in such a visit, please contact Sue either by e-mail or phone who will happily arrange the visit with Helen and David: sueandpete@ferncottagebedandbreakfast.co.uk or 0117 9374966. Please remember that such a visit will need advance booking prior to your arrival at Fern Cottage. David and Helen are at Farmers Markets for the first 3 Saturdays of every month, but are quite happy to receive visitors Friday, the 4th Saturday of the month or on a Sunday. |
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