About Us
After meeting at University in 1993 Paula and Jon formed an incredible relationship both personally and in business. They set about their careers with a dream of opening their own business in the food and drink sector. By 2005 they had opened three pub restaurants in the South East including their flagship site The Jolly Farmers, the multi award-winning pub, eatery and Farm shop in Reigate, renowned as the UK’s first pub, eatery and fully integrated farm shop concept.
In 2006 Paula and Jon launched an initiative to reduce waste and encourage enterprise, their “cash-4-crops scheme” was launched to encourage customers to bring in their excess home-grown fruit and vegetables in exchange for vouchers to use within their establishments. It was an abundance of apples collected through the scheme that kick-started Paula experimenting
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Briscoe’s Artisan jellies are completely different from those which are commercially produced. Traditional jelly making delivers a clearly unique result beautiful in both presentation and taste. The time-honoured traditional techniques used create a soft and clear set product with a unique ability to preserve flavour, lending itself to many more uses than most people would ever believe.