Online shops for Wisbech growers and makers whose jars deserve to travel further than the North Brink
Wisbech grew up as a port on the Nene, shipping what the silt around it grew, and the growing hasn't stopped: fruit, veg and flowers come off the Fens in quantities that keep the packhouses busy from May. A preserves maker here starts with a surplus. Strawberries that miss the packhouse grade become jam, then chutney, then marmalade in January, and before long there's a kitchen unit out towards Elm, a stall on the Market Place and a dozen farm shops taking jars. The website runs to a Shop page with 15 jars and a basket that works most of the time. When someone in Glasgow types Fenland strawberry jam into Google, or a Peterborough firm wants 40 hampers before Christmas, neither finds that page. We're at Inc on King's Road in Bury St Edmunds, roughly 70 minutes off down the A1101. Wisbech makers get a Shopify store planned from the searches, the Shopify SEO kept up monthly, and a figure from £495 a month with nothing down.