...your guide to local, seasonal and speciality food & drink.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Boiled ham cooked at home by Honeypot proprietor Fiona Wilson's dad Fred Haddow - £1.12 per 100g.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Best-selling own-make pork pies (as eaten in their hundreds at the Victorian Fair) - £1 each.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Full shoulders of salt marsh lamb (approx 2 kilos) from farmer Roger Wilkinson, of High Foulshaw, Levens - £10.99 each.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Own-grown organic Victoria plums - now ripe & ready to eat - £1.75 per kilo.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Frozen white & dark crabmeat from Furness Fish & Game at Ulverston - £3.35 per 225g pot.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Venison, rabbit, mixed game bags from Cartmel Valley Game (see left - various prices - orders preferred.

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: Organic sheep milk Feta cheese from High Weald Dairy, West Sussex - £1.49 per 100g.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Own-bred Muscovy ducks from Holbeck, Woodland - £1.90 per lb, Spare rib of pork to roast or casserole - £1.50 per lb.

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: English Cox's apples - £1.79 per kilo.

Oddbins, Kendal: Wine of the month - Lindemans Bin 45 cabernet - a soft, fruity red from Australia - £6.09.