Quex Foods

This month at Pure Flavour, we are looking forward to sharing information on Quex Foods. We use their delicious Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil in our ready made meals.

We love all our local producers and hope that you will enjoy finding out more about them too!

So most importantly let's introduce you to the people! The Farm on the Quex Park Estate is fun by Farm Manager Alistair Walmesley-Cotham together with his experienced team: Terry Endicott (here he is mending some machinery in the field!), Paul Gamlen and Adam.

They grow 3,000 tonnes of potatoes - now that sounds like an incredible amount of tats! Ensuring that it is all kept local they grade and pack the potatoes at a local pack house, run by St Nicholas Court Farm (SNCF), just 3 miles up the road from Quex Park. Along side other local potato producers they sell their Kent potatoes to Kent Tesco stores - now that is fantastic. The response from customers has been extremely positive, having genuine local products grown, packed and sold in Kent is definitely a winner!

More relevant to our delicious home-made ready meals are their cereals grown. With wheat grown for the bread market and Oilseed Rape (seen flowering in this picture) and Sunflowers (a Quex Park sunflower field - so pretty) for the cold pressed oils. Sheila and Terry Bellis and Margot Walmesley-Cotham are the ones who create the highly nutritious Cold pressed Oils in their processing unit - more about how they actually manage to create the oil next week!

And finally not forgetting Angie Curwin and Karen Botha who run all the marketing and operational sides of Quex park - they are certainly very busy people!

If you are interested in finding out more info and would like to comment please do let us know!