Stonham Hedgerow

Production

It's not just the jam making that is a family run business. Most of the fruit is grown by Jeremy on the family fruit farm that surrounds the Stonham Hedgerow kitchens.

All Stonham Hedgerow preserves are made in small quantities using whole fruit, which keeps quality high. The fruit is prepared and put into pans; sugar is added;the jam is boiled and , finally, decanted into jars ready to be sealed and labelled.

Fruit Extras

We grow much of the fruit used in the products ourselves. You can see that we only use WHOLE SEVILLE ORANGES – as opposed to pulp/tinned fruit – and you really can taste the difference.

Greengages – we buy this rare, quintessential English plum from the traditional growing area – Cambridgeshire. We keep trying to persuade Jeremy to grow some, but he tells us a Greengage tree takes seven years to bear any fruit, so he prefers to plant cherries, plums, tayberries for quicker results! These are all coming on stream, so that Stonham Hedgerow will be offering more specialist fruit products, that are grown by ourselves.

Quince Jelly – is another example of our tradition of producing unusual fruit products, but is only available from November through to December, owing to the scarcity of English quinces. Anyone got a few trees in their garden?


			The busy Stonham Hedgerow Kitchen. Even the boss does real work!