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Bookham Fine Foods is a family run business based in the heart of Sussex producing top quality cheese, butter and pasta .

What sets us apart from the rest is our big picture mentality and pioneering spirit. Not only are we committed to producing top quality cheese, butter and pasta (the four golds we won in the 2007 Great Taste Awards are testament to this), we are devoted to the much broader concept of forging links between primary and secondary producers. This reaches far beyond the simple concept of local sourcing and is as much about endeavouring to preserve our rural heritage for generations to come.

In 2007, we started making SUSSEX CHARMER, a new cheese with R.Harrisons & Sons from Rudgwick, a family at the forefront of dairy farming in Sussex since 1928. The project was set up in an effort to safeguard the art of local cheesemaking, as well as the region’s dairy farming tradition. It is a sobering fact that over the last five years, this country has been losing its dairy farmers at the rate of three a day. The Bookham Harrison partnership is determined that the sight of cows in a field be preserved for all our grandchildren to enjoy.

Our other noteworthy project is the growing on home soil of durum wheat for the fresh pasta we make. To this end, we have been working closely with Flanchford Farm in Surrey, who have grown especially for us sixty acres of durum wheat. This we hope to have milled traditionally on the Isle of Wight, thereby strengthening the future of each of the businesses involved, while at the same time reducing our dependence as pasta makers on precarious foreign imports.

In a nutshell then, Bookham Fine Foods is fiercely proud of its role in the wider fight to secure a local, sustainable network of primary and secondary producers, united by a common desire to preserve our individual traditions, as well as making us proud as a region of the food we eat.


Contact Information

Tel: 01323 636110
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Fax: 01323 487000
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E-Mail: info@thelocalproductcompany.co.uk
Website: www.bookhamcheese.co.uk
Address: Bates Green Farm

Arlington
Sussex
BN26 6SH
United Kingdom

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