Locally Sourced Fresh Ingredients
Established relationships with growers and suppliers from the UK and all over the world enables us to offer a wide and innovative product range delivered right to your door, through our BRC accredited national warehousing and distribution facilities.
Scroll down to find out more information about some of the growers and producers.
Smithy Mushrooms
Situated in West Lancashire, Smithy Mushrooms has been established for over 30 years. Smithy covers 3 acres of land and houses 26 individually controlled growing rooms, cultivating a variety of both wild & exotic mushrooms all year round.
Smithy Mushrooms have been supplying Oliver Kay for over 10 years with the majority of our mushrooms, including; pink, grey & yellow oyster mushrooms, shiitake and a fabulous woodland mix.
Woodlands Farm
Woodlands Farm covers approximately 25 acres near Knutsford, Cheshire & the Halman family have been farming in Cheshire for 123 years and are now proudly into their 5th generation.
Oliver Kay Produce & Roy Halman have worked over 15 years together to build a very successful relationship & it is this continuity of trade & affiliation that has allowed Oliver Kay Produce to offer the finest quality outdoor grown rhubarb, lollo rosso, lollo biondi, oak leaf, cos & flat lettuce that the northwest has to offer.
Some of the products are grown under glass to extend their growing season such as flat lettuce.
The lettuces & rhubarb are picked fresh every morning & packed in the field ready for dispatch. We collect them from the farm around noon for delivery to you the following morning. Their products are always first-rate in terms of both quality & consistency & importantly yield.
We pride ourselves on the close relationships that we have with our farmers & growers, many of whom have grown alongside us from Day One. This gives us access to the best of their crop at their very best prices.
F.B Emison and Son
The Emison family-run farm started almost 60 years ago, growing tomato & lettuce. 40 years later they decided to grow pak choi all year round, and little gem lettuces as a summer product, which continues today.
The farm is 6.5 acres, with over an acre of polytunnels built exclusively for the growth of the pak choi. We have worked with Eminsons’ for over 10 years.
Herbs Unlimited
Located in North Yorkshire, Herbs Unlimited grow and process fresh herbs, salads and edible flowers. They also work with British foragers to supply foraged produce when in season.
A family business, Herbs Unlimited grow, cut, wash, chop, and pack to ensure full traceability from their farm in North Yorkshire within a 12-hour turnaround of harvesting.
Poskitts’
The Firs Farm, Yorkshire is home to Guy Poskitt who supplies us with parsnips & carrots. The land is ideal for these root vegetables due to the sandy soil.
The products are grown, washed, packed & distributed all from the farm to enable them to control all aspect of the production.
Poskitts’ have supplied Oliver Kay for many years and we have found them to grow consistently good products. .
Westlands
Continuing the traditions of their Dutch heritage, Westland’s namesake originates from a region in western Netherlands.
It’s been 80 years since the company’s beginning in the Vale of Evesham, and the principles of personal care and product quality exhibited across the micro leaves, edible flowers and speciality produce ranges that Westlands supply, have been passed down from generation to generation.
Discover more and read our exclusive interview with Westlands
Angus Soft Fruit
Angus Soft Fruits Ltd are berry specialists located in Arbroath, Scotland. They were established in 1994 with the ambition to continually improve the product available to consumers.
Angus Soft Fruits Ltd is a leading supplier of berries to UK & Europe. They breed, grow & pack berries from around the world to ensure a consistent supply of the best tasting fruit for our customers.
The business has expanded through working with Angus Growers Ltd, a soft fruit producer organisation and through collaboration with over 50 likeminded growers globally for year round supply.
Molyneux Kale
The Molyneux family have farmed on the fertile south-west Lancashire plain in Scarisbrick for more than five generations, so they know a thing or two about sustainable growing!
Molyneux have supplied Oliver Kay for many years, with great Cavalo Nero, spring greens and chard.
Molyneux understand the importance of producing kale in a way that protects the environment whilst offering the assurance of a quality product.
AB Produce
AB Produce is a 3rd generation family-owned business which has been successfully supplying washed potatoes and prepared vegetables to the fresh produce industry in the UK for nearly 30 years.
AB Produce has an 80,000 sq. feet purpose-built facility created in Measham, capable of washing, preparing, and packing over 600 product lines of vegetables.
As AB Produce looks towards generating a sustainable future, the environmental impacts effecting the planet are becoming one of their top priorities, and to help combat their carbon footprint, in 2017 they built and turned online their own purpose built, 28 metre Anaerobic Digestion Plant (AD Plant).
AB Produce’s AD plant turns organic materials, such as the waste material from their facility into biogas which is a highly versatile renewable green fuel. It can be used to power vehicles, generate heat, coolant, and power, and be fed into the national electricity and gas grids to fuel homes and business premises.
Stewarts Of Tayside
Stewarts of Tayside supply Oliver Kay with Swede.
Based on the banks of the Tay, at Glencarse, Perth, Scotland, The Stewart Family and our predecessors have farmed at Tofthill since 1930.
Stewarts of Tayside is born out of the dedication, passion and experience of the Stewart family and staff over a number of decades. They pride themselves on the quality of their produce and efficiency of growing, harvesting, packing and delivering 52 weeks of the year.
Stewart’s farm 3,500 acres of land and have generations of experience of growing swede, soft fruit and arable crops, constantly striving to engage in the latest innovative and environmentally friendly growing, harvesting and packing techniques and are entirely self-sufficient.
Deurden Brothers
A third generation family run business located in the North-West of England in Great Eccleston, Lancashire.
Duerden grow and supply watercress, bean sprouts and mustard cress.
They have the capacity to grow across three acres of purpose built site, producing eighty tons of bean sprouts per week, fifty-two weeks of the year.
Blackdown Growers
Founded in 1969, and still a family run business, Blackdown have 3 sites in Warwickshire. Their main site in Leamington Spa is sat conveniently on top of a spa that is used to feed the crops above them.
Unlike most UK baby leaf growers Blackdown have a large amount of glasshouses that really come in handy during the unpredictable UK summer and winter alike. Blackdown also have links to Italian farms that allow them to keep us supplied with fresh product every day during the tormenting winter season. Every order is cut, packed and delivered within 14 hours of ordering each day from March to November.
Blackdown Growers have been supplying varieties of UK baby leaves to Oliver Kay for roughly 10 years.
Minor Weir and Willis
Established in 1963, Minor Weir and Willis (MWW) are one of the UK’s largest family owned suppliers of exotic and conventional fresh fruit, vegetables and salads.
Farming over 2,500 acres of land in the Severn Valley, MWW supply Oliver Kay with fresh produce such as Tenderstem broccoli and spring onions.
Koffman’s
Koffman’s is a family run business, supplying potatoes to Oliver Kay.
Potatoes are harvested and produced from October to May. Koffman’s offer a wide range of products and pride themself on consistency in taste. Rather than selling by potato variety, Koffman’s label their product as to the usage in order to provide the best variety for the job depending on the time of year. For example ‘Chefs Mashing & Boiling Potatoes’.
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