How to enjoy a festive Christmas feast using locally-sourced produce in Sheffield

The coronavirus pandemic has meant that 2020 has been a year unlike any other, and it has hit the city’s businesses incredibly hard.

This has led to many people wanting to support local suppliers by giving them their business, and so we have compiled a handy list of the Sheffield businesses you can buy your Christmas dinner from this year.

For your turkey look no further than Clark Farms on Hangram Road, Ringinglow who are selling a selection of five different strains of home reared bronze and white turkeys.

According to Clark Farms, their turkeys are “slow growing to maturity, thus giving the turkey time to develop a layer of natural fat which makes them very moist and full of flavour.”

They also sell geese, chickens, beef, pork and hams, for those who do not fancy turkey for their Christmas dinner.

And for those wanting to make their Christmas meat-free, Sheffield institution, Beanies, offers a range of vegetarian and vegan alternatives including a Tofurky roast, as well as a cranberry and cashew nut roast, and vegan sweet treats such as fudge, Christmas puddings and panetonne.

Sheffield is blessed with a number of fantastic greengrocers where you can stock up on the vegetables for your Christmas dinner including: Just Natural on Crookes; Fruit A Peel on Fulwood Road, Broomhill; Sharps of Sheffield on Abbeydale Road; Stannington Fruit and Veg on Stannington Road, Stannington and Bob’s Fruit and Veg in Main Road, Darnall.

And for your festive accompaniments such as Christmas puddings, cheeses, sauces and chutneys, there are plenty of city farm shops to try including Beeches of Walkley on South Road, Walkley; Whirlow Hall Farm Shop and Butchery on Whirlow Lane, Whirlow who also operate a delivery service and Grace’s Farm Shop on Pot House Lane in Stocksbridge and they also offer delivery.

For those looking forward to a Yuletide tipple, a number of Sheffield suppliers make their own spirits including True North who produce Sheffield Dry Gin in a range of flavours including Moorland Berries and Raspberry and Pomegranate.

Another popular Sheffield gin manufacturer is Locksley Distilling Co based at Portland Works, Highfield.

Sheffield beer lovers are spoiled for choice with countless pubs, micro pubs and bottle shops to choose from, including: Two Sheds on Crookes; Gardeners Rest on Neepsend Lane, Neepsend; The Fat Cat on Alma Street, Kelham Island; Ecclesall Ale Club on Ecclesall Road; Two Thirds Beer Co. on Abbeydale Road; Bar Stewards on Gibraltar Street in the city centre; Walkley Beer Co on South Road, Walkley and The Dram Shop on Commonside, Crookesmoor.

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