Trays of tomatoes set out on a wooden market table
Unit 4, Oathill Yard · Bridport DT6 3QX

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The hatch is open Thursday to Saturday, nine until four. Everything else happens by email, and the phone is in the kitchen so it rings out when the pan is on.

Next run 0422
12 Oct
90 jars planned
— left
Market
Trays of tomatoes on the stall table before eight.
A woman in an apron standing in a bright workroom
01Yard hatchThu–Sat, 9–4. Ring the bell by the blue door.
02Telephone+44 1308 560114. Best before 10 or after 3.
03WholesaleOrders close Tuesday 6pm. Min. 24 jars, one invoice.
04PostGoes Tuesdays. £5.80 to six jars, UK only.
Write to the kitchen

One of four people reads this, usually on a Friday

Tell us the batch number if you have one. If you are asking us to hold a jar, say how long you need and we will hold it seven days without a deposit. We do not do gift messages and we are bad at Instagram.

Nessa opening the hatch on a Saturday.
kitchen@oathillpreserving.co.uk
trade@oathillpreserving.co.uk

The next four runs

Same five fields as every other record on this site. Two of them are em-dashes because those runs have not happened yet.

Batch
Planned
Goes in
Size
Left
Going to
0422Late damson, second pick12 Oct≈ 90 jars—Market, farm shop
0423Quince & bay cheese19 Oct≈ 40 blocks—Yard hatch
0424Medlar, if the frost comes———Undecided
0425Seville marmaladeLate Jan≈ 160 jars—Post, wholesale

A planned run is not a promise. 0424 depends on a frost hard enough to blet the medlars, and in 2023 it never came, so the row sat here until March and then went away.

If you want one of these, say the number now. We write the holds against the batch before it is made, and when the count appears it is already short by however many people asked.

A single red apple hanging among leaves
0422One left on the tree after the pick.

Two places you can actually stand

A hand setting a small jar of quince down beside two others

The yard hatch

Checking the seal on three jars of quince. Batch 0418.
Unit 4, Oathill Yard, Bridport DT6 3QXThursday to Saturday, 9–4. Closed all January.Park on the verge past the weighbridge, not in the yard.
kitchen@oathillpreserving.co.uk
A wooden crate of apples standing in a field

Pennfield gate

Windfalls crated at the field gate.
Pennfield orchard, off the Beaminster roadSaturdays in the picking weeks only, 8–1Cash or card. Bring a box; we have run out of boxes every year.
+44 1308 560114
A battered metal preserving pan in hard side light
181 runs recorded · 11,408 jars

Or just read the book

Every run we have made, what it cost us, what came out and what went in the bin. It is the most useful page on this site and nobody has to answer an email for you to read it.

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Batch 0425
Late Jan
≈ 160 jars
— left
Post
The 40-litre pan, scoured and turned out to dry.