Beer Brewers can find all their ingredients locally. As well as barley, there's pure water from chalk wells and hops grown on warm hillsides. Cattle and cheese Clay soils in the river valleys make fertile pastures, ideal for dairy farming - producing some interesting local cheeses , and a traditional supply of beef for the North's cooks. The drained marshes of the coastal areas support market gardening, giving the region's cooks a profusion of vegetables, especially cooler climate varieties such as onions, garlic, chicory , root vegetables and cauliflowers.
Sugar beet is grown along the Belgian border.
The marshes also support pastures for fattening lambs that have been bred on the hills - a similar pattern to the traditional farming on Romney Marsh 1. Smoked garlic is a speciality of the Nord 2.