We also appreciate that we can just pick up the phone and ask questions if we need to, and we can only see this relationship growing stronger in time. This year, we’re really putting focus on the little things that add up and can help us achieve an overall ambition to be carbon neutral.

We harvest twelve different potato varieties, maize and rye on beautiful farmland across the Colne Valley just north of Colchester in Essex.We already have a lot going on at the farm, including tree planting programmes, our solar panel array and the anaerobic digestion plant (which gets fed maize and rye and makes energy), but we know we can do more, particularly when it comes to biodiversity. We even grow own special varieties of crisping potatoes which are hand cooked on the farm to the highest possible standards to make our delicious crisps which are gluten free and available in over 10 flavours.

Fairfields Farm also grow their own special varieties of crisping potatoes which are hand cooked on the farm to the highest possible standards. We’re Laura and Robert Strathern, a third-generation farming family growing potatoes, and producers of award-winning crisps right here on the farm. We’re particularly excited, though, to be really focusing on what a sustainable future means for us.

We really do believe we have a duty here; with the country’s self-sufficiency dropping year on year it’s all the more important that the land is put to efficient – and environmentally sympathetic – use. Of course, we’re always looking at ways to reduce the impact of things like our packaging, too, with some really exciting changes in the pipeline.

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed Oil - in varying proportions), Sugar, Rice flour, Tomato Powder, Salt, Onion Powder, Yeast Extracts, Citric Acid, Natural Flavourings, Smoked Maltodextrin, Paprika Extract. As a result every packet of crisps can be traced back to the potatoes used and the exact field they were grown in. The traditional potato crisps have proved so successful that the Strathern’s have also branched out into vegetable crisp production as well, including parsnip crisps flavoured with Essex honey and black pepper.Produced from crisping potatoes which are grown, harvested, and handcooked at our family farm in Essex, then delivered to your from door. Winter is also the time when we repair ditches and hedgerows, which are so important to biodiversity.