Chris Pratt started his oil production business in 2007. He had always enjoyed farming and also had a love of food and cooking and so producing an end product from what they produced on the farm seemed like a good idea.
Chris realised that in the UK there was no real alternatives to imported olive oils so he realised that if he could produce an oil which was just as nutritious and tasty as olive oil then it should benefit everyone.
The oil comes from the seed grown on their farm and it is the quality of the seed that sets us apart from other rapeseed oils. Chris says, “The flavoured oils are fantastic because they are unique flavours and unlike 
many flavoured oils are strong enough to really have a use in cooking. With the salad dressings. I have gone down the simple is better route and just done two simple vinaigrettes but using the best quality ingredients possible.”
Chris’s favourite thing about selling at selling at Hampshire Farmers Markets? Is meeting the people that buy the products and hearing positive feedback. Of buying local, Chris says, “It just makes sense, why buy food that comes from other countries when we can buy it from near where we live. You would not by a foreign newspaper because it would not relate to you and there for not be very interesting it. It’s just the same with food but somehow over the years society has become misguided and believe that is not only acceptable but also a good idea to do this.”
Other producers Chirs recommends are Mr Whitehead’s Cider, The Muffin Lady, Lyburn Cheese and Bowtell’s Farm shop – largely because- they keep him well fed through the trading day!
