Food Heroes

Some of our Food Heroes are listed here. Use the shortcuts immediately underneath to find who you want.

Blue Pig Bracken Hill Fine Foods Brunswick Organic Nursery David Lishman
Edible York FR Fowler and Son Hellifield Highland Beef Holme Farm Venison
Little Pretty Things Loose Birds Lowna Dairy Moorland Trout Farm
Port of Lancaster Smokehouse Rare Breed larder Sloe Motion Sutton Beef and Lamb
Swinton Park Taste Tradition Whitby Cartch Whitby Crab Company
Yorkshire Organic Millers Yorkshire Shearling Yorkshire Wold Apples  
 
The Blue Pig Company  

Andrew and Anthony Bradley have farmed on Mearbeck Farm, near Skiptonthe 1970's, but the farm has been in the family for 5 generations. The outdoor reared pigs are a cross between traditionally 'Black' and traditionally 'White' pigs, resulting in some grey and blue markings. With their own processing facility, they produce traditional cuts of pork, sausages, dry cured bacon, pancetta and more, using everything from 'field to plate'.
Web: http://www.bluepigcompany.com/

  
Bracken Hill Fine Foods  

Neil and his wife Gill set up Bracken Hill Fine Foods to produce award winning quality preserves. And extensive range of jams, chutneys, jellies, marmalades, sauces and many others use locally sourced ingredients and are home made at West House Farm, Elvington. Some of their products include no added sugar chutneys and diabetic friendly and gluten free products.
Web: http://www.brackenhillfinefoods.co.uk/

  
Brunswick Organic Nursery
  

Brunswick Organic Nursery and Craft Workshop is a productive workplace for adults with learning difficulties in Bishopthorpe, York.
Brunswick grows a wide range of seasonal organic vegetables and fruit and is registered with the soil association as an organic grower. They have won several awards for our produce in the National Organic Food Awards. Brunswick Organic Nursery has been renting The Archbishops Palace Walled Gardens from the Church Commissioners since 2004 and are restoring the garden to productive use. www.brunswickyork.org.uk Tel: 01904 701869

  
David Lishman  

David Lishman's of Ilkley is one of the countries top butchers. He recently participated as one of the judges on the BBC's Young Butcher of the Year. All of the products come from local farmers, and are prepared in house to the highest standard. They have won many highly regarded awards.
Web: http://www.lishmansonline.co.uk/

  
Edible York  

Edible York runs many projects throughout the city to provide sustainable spaces for York residents to 'grow their own'. They also highlight many hidden treasures in and around York so that you can forage your own food and cook it!
Web: http://www.edibleyork.org.uk/

  
F.R. Fowler & Son - Burnholme Fisheries

  
The third generation of a York-based, family-run business supplying hotels, restaurants, catering trade  and the general public  since 1906.
F.R Fowler & Son endeavour to offer unrivalled customer service coupled with exceptional value for money, whilst catering for all requirements - regardless of volume.
Fish is sourced from markets up and down the East Coast and from ports both nationally and internationally bringing together all manner of seafood of only the finest quality.
Web Fowlers of York
 
Hellifield Highland Beef  

Wendy and Robert Phillips originally started as dairy farmers at Green Farm, Skipton, with 2 Highland Beef cattle as a hobby. But, after becoming involved in the Highland Cattle Society they decided to concentrate on producing high quality beef in an environmentally friendly and traditional way.
Web:http://www.hellifieldhighlandbeef.co.uk/index.htm

  
Holme Farmed Venison  

- Located at Sherburn-on Elmet, all of their Venison is reared naturally. The deer are allowed to graze on grass pastures ensuring the highest quality, with tender and lean meat produced. In October 2009, owner Nigel Sampson produced a Roundhouse building for the deer, to produce a stress free environment for his livestock and ensure high quality produce.
Web: www.hfv.co.uk

  
Little Pretty Things
 

All hand made chocolates dedicated to using seasonal produce, Little Pretty Things produces a range of tasty and attractive treats. Set up last year by Sophie Jewett, Little Pretty Things has become more and more popular, with the Centurion's Ghost bitter chocolate as one of their favourites. Sophie also runs chocolate workshops, tastings and parties.
Web:http://www.littleprettything.co.uk/

  
Loose Birds   Dr Paul Tanning and his wife look after the hens and geese on their land around Harome, near Helmsley. His standards are rigid. Dr. Tanning believes, "...the welfare of the birds comes first. I do everything to try to give them as interesting and pleasant a life as possible. I treat them like I would treat myself.”
01439 770683 		 
Lowna Dairy


   Among the rolling hills of East Yorkshire, Tom and Tricia Wallis make their award winning goats cheeses by hand and in small batches to provide fantastic taste and high quality.
www.lownadairy.com
Lowna Dairy can be seen in the Guildhall for our Chefs' Produce day on Monday 20th.		  
Moorland Trout Farm  

A great place to walk around, feed the fish and catch your own. Just on the edge of Pickering. 01751 474219

  
Port of Lancaster Smokehouse.

   Although not Yorkshire, a firm favourite at York Food Festival is the Port of Lancaster Smokehouse. Established over thirty years ago, the company has retained and maintained the traditional methods of preparing and curing fish and meats of all kinds. It is their commitment to quality, the ingredients they use and the service they provide, that has won such overall acclaim for their smoked products. Their method has been used over the past twenty five years, without using additives or preservatives, giving a real taste of the past. www.polsco.co.uk As a special treat this year, you can see the smoking process in action, in the market place.  
Rare Breed Larder  

Dean and Angela Hullah can be found at Tancred Field Farm between Harrogate and York. Here they specialise in growing their own feed to rear their rare breed pigs, sheep and cows, producing fine quality meats.
Web: http://www.tancred-rare-breeds.co.uk/

  
SLOEmotion  

- A small family business run by Jonathon Curtoys, Sloemotion is dedicated to using traditional sloe gin methods of leaving the fruit to ferment in sugar and gin. Nothing is tampered with so ' high quality ingredients, time and a bit of nature’s magic are all we need' to produce great Sloe Gin. All of their berries are locally sourced, and their products have won many awards.
Web: http://www.sloemotion.com/

  
Sutton beef and lamb
 

Sutton beef and lamb is situated at Sutton on the forest near York,  based on the Sutton park estate. As slow food enthusiasts we produce grass fed Angus beef and hampshire down lamb, producing all our own hay and haylage. although not registered organic we operate on similar lines. Meat is sold in bulk or smaller quantities  "value for money direct from the farm".  Our products sell themselves,  FLAVOUR  being the end result.  Andrew is farmer and chef: the true 'field to plate' partnership. 

Web: www.suttonbeefandlamb.co.uk

  
Swinton Park
  Swinton Park hotel and Cookery school are committed to Yorkshire produce (sourcing ingredients from the local countryside and their four acre walled garden). Swinton Park also run cookery courses which specialise on Yorkshire game, how to grow and cook your own, and on foraging for wild edible food in the Yorkshire countryside.
Swinton Park 		 
Taste Tradition

   Taste Tradition is a farming family company run by mother and son, Joyce and Charles Ashbridge based near Thirsk in the heart of North Yorkshire. They specialise in the production of Rare Breed Pigs and Rare/Native Breed Cattle and Sheep using the traditional methods of a by-gone era. www.tastetradition.co.uk
James Wright of Taste Tradition, can be seen demonstrating on Monday 20th, (Guildhall). 		 

Whitby Catch

 

  

The Whitby Catch is the new and exciting seafood outlet in Whitby. Whitby is a traditional fishing port which, for generations, has been recognised as one of the premier homes of quality fresh fish products in Great Britain and the European Community.
The Catch aim to stock only the best available, with over 120 different fish products available daily. Their premises at 1 Pier Road, Whitby, is just over the road from the Whitby Fish Market Come. It is worth visiting to see the display alone- a seafood connoisseur's dream- even non fish eaters will be impressed and be tempted to try something new. See www.thewhitbycatch.co.uk for more and www.gourmetyorkshire.com for more on food in Whitby.

  
Whitby Crab Company   Whitby Crab Company is a specialist wholesale crab business, who buy the finest local crab and hand-dress it to ensure customers receive only the best quality meat.
Based in the historic village of Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, they produce fresh artisan hand-picked crab products every day for sale throughout the UK.
web:Whitby Crab
 
Yorkshire Organic Millers  

Hill Top Farm is in the North York Moors National Park. In 2005 they started to mill locally grown wheat on the farm in order to preserve its distinctive taste and identity. The goal as organic farmers is to produce high quality food in an environmentally friendly and socially responsible way. They do this in practice by sourcing locally grown organic wheat from neighbouring producers and marketing it locally.
web: http://www.lazydogtools.co.uk/

  
       
Yorkshire Shearling By Michael Hickling (Yorkshire Post)  

At the moment Shearling is not a word on the lips of shoppers pushing their trolleys round the supermarket, even among those who recognise a leg of lamb or a piece of mutton.
A Shearling comes between the two. It's an animal which has been shorn once and is then killed at 17-24 months when it's sufficiently mature for the flesh to be lightly marbled by fine lines of fat.
This meat has never been widely sampled outside the uplands and Philip Tevelyan reckons if he could extend its customer reach, the texture and the flavour which has been imparted by the Shearling's moorland roaming and its unique diet should be a winner.
Philip, with 10 like-minded neighbours, set up a Shearling project and they now have plans for an annual Shearling festival at Farndale village hall. Their argument is not solely economic. The moorland sheep play a key role in maintaining the look of the upland landscape. It's an ancient arrangement which is now in jeopardy. Many farmers are taking their flocks off the moor because they can make better returns rearing their animals on more congenial, grassier slopes
More on this project at http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-taste-of-life-on.5648127.jp

 
Yorkshire Wolds Apples  

Ray Kirby uses a traditional method of pressing hand picked apples from the Yorkshire Wolds to produce this wonderful apple juice. The farm in East Yorkshire even lets you bring your own apples down to press yourself!
Web: http://www.yorkshirewoldsapplejuice.co.uk/