Pannel Organic Based at Little Pannel Farm, four miles away from the bakery near Pett, Little Pannel is run by a Dutch grower who recently imported his veg-growing skills to Sussex. Metsge cultivates dozens of different varieties of vegetables, including a dozen types of lettuce, aubergines, tomatoes, celeriac, pumpkins, celery, carrots, herbs, Scotch Bonnet peppers (the world’s hottest chillies) and much more - over 50 varieties, since opened in July.

Stonelynk Farm This is the bakery's ‘home farm’ - just three miles from the bakery, in Fairlight, where founders Jo and Craig Sams have planted an orchard which will ultimately provide the apples for the bakery's apple pies, Belgian buns and more. (25 grafts have been made of a local endangered tree, the Saltcote Pippin - which flourished in the area, in the past, but of which only three trees remained.) In addition, Stonelynk is providing the shop with beets, a dozen varieties of squash, curly kale, chicories, winter lettuces and dandelion greens. The giant Syrian Krak pumpkins were turned into pumpkin pickle in own kitchen.

Oakwood Farm From Oakwood Farm - 12 miles up the A21, near Robertsbridge - sources a wide range of apples, including Winter Gem, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Russets, Jonagored and Fiesta, among others. These are also juiced by Oakwood for apple juice (there’s also a pear variety), which is one of our store's bestselling grocery items.

Hen on the Gate Cathy Swingland and Will Sheffield provide much of the meat for , including pork and chickens, from this beautiful farm outside Mayfield. Hen on the Gate also take any leftover bread from for their organic livestock - which then comes back to in the form of sausagemeat for the Scotch eggs and sausage rolls! Hen on the Gate also provide as many eggs as their very free range chickens are happy to lay to for us - where they all but fly straight out of the door...

Hollypark Organic Hollypark’s organic goats munch happily in the meadows outside Guestling, just three miles from the bakery. Certified biodynamic in addition to being organic, their milk is transformed into delicious goat’s yoghurts, drinking yoghurts and delicious soft cheeses, including some salt-free versions which are especially popular with diet-conscious customers. (NB stocks a wide selection of gluten-free and wheat-free products to cater to customers with food intolerances.)

Sedlescombe Vineyard As the climate of Sussex grows ever more mild and vine-friendly, the quality of Sedlescombe’s wines is increasingly impressing wine experts, who awarded Sedlescombe’s wines the ‘Best Dry White’ Award in the English Wine Festival 2005, while both the White and Rosé were Highly Commended in the UK Wine of the Year Competition 2005. carries a full range of Sedlescombe wines.

And the list of 'food heroes’ just keeps growing: together, Lisa and Jo - with their combined experience in the organic world - have set out to source the very best in organic food, with the emphasis on local, wherever possible. Other suppliers include Todd Cameron-Clark’s Food Fore Thought (Winchelsea-based Todd supplies meat to Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants, among other London clients), Sussex High Weald Dairy (whose Ashdown Foresters cheese has won the Soil Association Organic Food Award) and Court Lodge Farm (producers of excellent drinking yoghurts), and the list keeps growing...