Welcome To Oakden


Oakden is the parent company for Oakden Park Farm, Apex Catering, and Embers Catering Equipment. Here you can find out about our latest news through the blog and also information about Oakden Park Farm, our market garden farm that we use to grow our own salad, herb and fruit produce for use in our catering.

We will be blogging on our year’s progress from our four businesses, Oakden, Apex, and Embers. These businesses are all linked within a specific market sector of catering - as Apex we are one of the oldest and most experienced caterers for clients in the UK, as Embers we make the catering ovens, and as Oakden Park Farm we have a market garden to grow the salad, herbs and fruit crops we use in our catering. We also use Historical Foods who help us in designing our Medieval menus and investigate historical recipes for us to use. Historical Foods. translate authentic historical recipes for the modern kitchen.



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APEX CATERING - APEX HOGROAST - APEX BBQ - - EMBERS



Oakden Park Farm. Food For Life: Only the finest, fresh, in season produce. Oakden Produce

Apex Catering - The Professional Caterers in wedding, corporate, bufets, medieval and party catering for over thirty years in South Wales and Southern England. From fine dining to Hog Roasts and BBQ's to historically acurate and authentic Medieval Banquets and Feasts, the aim of Apex is to offer a high quality catering service, and to use fresh, good quality 'in season' local produce. Much of the salad, herbs and vegetable crops we grow ourselves on our market garden farm and we source meats very locally from small-holder farms known to us.
Catering Van Conversions

Catering Van Conversions

01 April 2010

On the catering engineering side of our business, since the start of the year, we have been inundated with queries for quotes for catering van conversions, mainly the classic Citroen H Van, of which we are specialists in. We have one H van in the moment and it looks like two more are coming in, with [...]

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How To Prep A Pig For A Hog Roast

How To Prep A Pig For A Hog Roast

21 March 2010

The video below will show you how to professionally prepare a pig for a Hog Roast using one of our Embers Hog Roasters. If you can roast a joint in your own oven then you can roast a whole pig in ours! The approximate length of cooking time is determined by the weight of the [...]

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The New Kitchen

The New Kitchen

15 March 2010

The new kitchen is ‘almost’ ready! Over the last 6 months (see previous post) we have been getting the new kitchen ready over the less busy period of winter so that we can start the new season in a new place. Our kitchen base is still on our market garden farm but in a refurbished building, [...]

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Ox Roasting Trailers

Ox Roasting Trailers

01 March 2010

In the country there are very few (if any) companies that can make roasting trailers as big as we can. Bespoke engineering of any kind in the UK has been declining, because it is expensive in terms of initial outlay, but the ability to regain that outlay quickly by making more money from more types [...]

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A Hog Roast Video By Apex

A Hog Roast Video By Apex

13 February 2010

Below is a promotional video we have made to advertise our Hog Roast Catering skills and experience. It shows how to prepare a pig from the start and how it is carved and served to guests. The Embers Hog Roaster Oven is fully portable and means we can cook a pig and serve it regardless [...]

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