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Last broadcast on Mon, 20 Apr 2009, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
From farm gate to the school plate and to the high-end restaurant menu, Sheila Dillon looks at the farmers' co-operative that is supplying quality organic produce from Essex.
Essex Farmers' Cooperative
Philip Robins, Development Manager, Anglia Quality Meat, Sheila Dillon and Gary Stokes, Managing Director, Ashlyns Growers and Producers.
Farmers band together in Essex to send quality food to local customers.
Ashlyns Growers and Producers is a farmer-led co-operative supplying quality, mainly organic, food from Essex to sixty local schools and to catering establishments and to a five-star Hotel in London’s West end. If they can do it, could it work elsewhere?
It started in 2006 and is becoming increasingly popular as more and more people want to know where their food has come from. Ashlyns offers full traceability, ethical trading standards and quality control.
The programme visits Ashlyns Organic Farm, speaks to farmers and shareholders in the scheme – as well as a Hospital café, a school and the Royal Garden Hotel in London. How did it start? Why does it work?
Broadcasts
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Sun 19 Apr 200912:32
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Mon 20 Apr 200916:00
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