Sourcing & Suppliers
Supporting local growers, farmers and artisans
Our weekly-changing menus are inspired directly by the weekly lists sent to Chloe on a Friday by the lovely folk from The Kitchen Garden People and Church Lane Produce.
Words like ‘seasonal’, ‘local’ and ‘organic’ are often bandied about quite freely in the food industry, but it’s something we take seriously at Chloe’s. We believe in providing the best ingredients we can afford, sourced as locally as possible.
We love working with local growers, farmers, makers and producers, and that by growing together we can make the local food infrastructure and our businesses stronger. If you are a local allotment holder and have excess produce, please get in touch, we’d be more than happy to buy or barter with you!
There are some collaborative/pop-up events held at Chloes that explore different food cultures where it’s not possible to adhere to all of these principles. In these instances, we have done our best to ensure that these are very special experiences and therefore worth sourcing more broadly.
The meat we use is usually organic (or if not grass fed and reared free range).
Our Suppliers
Here is a list of suppliers we use regularly at Chloe’s.
Vegetables and eggs
Church Lane Produce (2 miles away)
Hugh and Helen run a fantastic small-holding in Spelsbury where we get our bedrock of vegetables and Billy's eggs. They grow beautiful food with love and have a little stall outside their house, so if you’re local pop in.
Kitchen Garden People (3.5-6 miles away)
A farm-to-fork CSA based at Chadlington and FarmED producing delicious year-round organic vegetables and amazing salad.
Styan Family (31 miles away)
Styan Family produce fresh home grown fruit and vegetables, they are regulars at Charlbury markets and provide collection points and delivery through-out Oxfordshire.
Charlbury Cornerstone (0 miles away)
Charlbury is lucky enough to have this community hub which offers food surplus from SOFEA and Oxford Food Hub, as well as a give-and-take scheme for local gardeners and growers. This is especially abundant during apple season.
Chloe’s Parents’ Garden (8.9 miles away)
Based in Fulbrook, we get an abundant supply of rhubarb, quince, rosemary, edible flowers and herbs from the lovely John and Sarah Horner. Sarah also provides our beautiful flower arrangements every week!
In addition during leaner times locally we source from the following: Riverford Organic, Natoora, Wholegood and Ocado.
Meat, Fish and Dairy
Saltpig Curing (7.2 miles away)
Saltpig makes all the delicious cured meats we sell at Chloe’s. They are nose-to-tail curers using mature, rare breed pigs from the Warwickshire border in all of their charcuterie.
Upton Smokery (11.3 miles away)
Lovely smoked foods, just outside Burford.
The Organic Butchery (125 miles away)
When we are catering for large numbers this is our go-to meat provider. Certified Organic for almost 20 years, they provide a wide selection of well-reared organic meats.
King Stone Dairy (20 miles away)
Beautiful award winning cheeses from one of our most local cheese makers in Chatsworth near Cheltenham, uses milk from grass fed free range cows reared in the fields just outside their dairy.
A note on Dairy
Most of our dairy is from Yeo Valley and is therefore pasture fed, reared and organic.
Wine, Drinks and More
Freedom of the Press (7 miles away)
Our most local wines come from our friend Gavin at Freedom of the press. His winery is in Minster Lovell and his wines are lovingly and attentively made using grapes from Essex.
We work with lovely Sam from Wine Freedom to source the majority of our wines. They work solely with natural wine producers (so no nasty chemicals) to supply us with delicious wines working in harmony with nature. Our wines are often biodynamic and organic too.
Our beers come from a selection of breweries including our most local: Little Ox Brew Co (which are all gluten free), Cheltenham-based Deya Brewing Co and Bristol-Based Wiper and True.
We also use spirits from TOAD, Cotswold, Sibling, Wood Brothers, Two Drifters and Caprilous Distillery.
The chocolate available in the shop is rom Arthouse Unlimited , a charity who work with artists with neuro-diverse and physical support needs.
Our cards and artworks are by Charlbury-based artist Alice Pryce
Flours, Dried Goods and Coffee
Bruern farm (6 miles away)
Bruern farm believes in the health of the environment, land and community and holds close principles of provenance and transparency. We use their flour in Our Chloe’s bread made from a mix of grains regeneratively grown and milled at Bruern.
Matthews (6 miles away)
Matthews has been milling in the heart of the Cotswolds for over 100 years. We use their Cotswold Organic Premium white as our day-to-day flour.
Hodmedod's works with British farmers to provide pulses and grains from fair and sustainable UK production, organic where possible.
SUMA (173 miles away)
A wholefood collective founded in 1977 that specialises in natural and responsibly sourced products.
Missing Bean (20 miles away)
Ori from the Missing Bean helped us make a bespoke blend for our first ever coffee for Chloe’s Oxfork café on Magdalen Road. It’s a long-standing friendship, plus their coffee is excellent. Our roast is Brazilian, and is directly traded with with a family run co-operative who Missing Bean have a long-standing relationship with.
