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

Lucy's of Ambleside: Full range of jams, chutneys, pickles & preserves made in her farmhouse kitchen by the 2004 North West Producer of the Year, Sue Prickett of Hutton Roof Hall - From £2.50.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Cumbrian Fellbred (Udale Speciality Foods) rib-eye steak - category winner NW Producer of the Year £7.49 per half kilo.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Meat Excellence Awards - gold medal winner - pork, duck, orange & Cointreau sausage - £3.75 per 500g.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Half Suffolk lambs for the freezer, home-bred by Peter at Holbeck Farm, Woodland. Cut & bagged to request - £1.60 per lb.

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: English rope onions - white £1.99; red £2.45; mixed £2.25.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Special offer 3lbs best stewing steak - £7.99, 3lbs lean braising steak - £8.99.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Fish pie mix from High Seas seafoods at Holme - £3.50 per 500g, Wild Alaskan Salmon - £1.75 per fillet.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Lamb shanks from Dales Quality Meat (Hawes) £2.95 per half kilo.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: For mustard lovers 1 kilo storage jar of wholegrain mustard - £7.35 .

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: Locally-grown organic pumpkins - 65p per kilo.

Oddbins, Kendal: Concha y Toro - Casillero del Diablo: shiraz or viognier - £5.99 or any 2 for £10.