Some of our best local produce comes from just five minutes down the road. Redgate Farm, near Seaham, has long been relied on by poultry businesses and food lovers across the Hunter. With seven generations of farming behind it, the farm is run by the Scott family, and today three sisters are carrying it forward, bringing fresh energy and new ideas while keeping what has always made Redgate special. Redgate is an artisanal breeder, with its own signature Black Silkie chickens.

At The Woodville Store we love a local business with a story, and Hungerford Meat Co has one of the best in the Hunter. The Branxton butchery first opened in 1937, when Claude Hungerford and his family started the Hungerford Butchery and Smokehouse. The same family ran it for more than 60 years. In 2016, former chef Michael Robinson took over, after 15 years cooking in top kitchens in London, Los Angeles and Sydney. He restored the heritage-listed building, which still has it

Honey is one of the simplest ways to taste where you live. Its flavour changes with whatever the bees have been feeding on, so a jar from down the road tastes nothing like one from across the country. That's why we stock three local honeys at Woodville. Beekeeping has deep roots around here. Back in 1893, the Hunter River Apiary at Largs, near where the Hunter and Paterson rivers meet, kept around 100 hives. Its bees fed on the willows along the riverbanks, on fruit blossom,