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You will also find our directory in the local produce section of the website, visit www.forestofbowland.com If you discover producers who you think should be included in this directory, please contact us A TASTE OF and we will add them to the database bowland@.gov.uk.We will include producers at our discretion, they must be in the AONB itself or within 2km of the boundary, BOWLAND or mainly serving people and businesses in AONB Local Food Directory the AONB. For details of producers in other parts of Lancashire, please contact Made in Lancashire at www.madeinlancs.co.uk For details of producers in other parts of North Yorkshire visit www.northyorkshirelocalfood.co.uk or www.deliciouslyorkshire.co.uk/dy We do all we can to make sure the information in this directory is correct. However, we cannot be responsible for the accuracy of this information or the way in which you use it.

32 Local Food Directory Introduction Introduction

Welcome to the Forest of Bowland Local Food Directory. In this publication you will find information about local businesses, both within and close to the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which produce food and drink.

Buying local products is important for many reasons, not only because it supports the economy, but also because these products are part of the fabric of our distinctive landscape.

Buying local…

Reduces food miles and congestion and Helps us to understand how and where Supports the local economy by supporting pollution on our roads food is produced farmers, distributors and processors Food miles are the distance which food travels Buying local, often face-to-face at the farm shop It’s not only farmers who depend on local from ‘farm to fork’. Evidence shows that this or farmers’ market, helps us to reconnect with produce. Others in the supply chain – the distance is increasing both internationally and on the land and its farmers. It helps us to find out distributors, processors and retailers – are also UK roads. how and where food is produced and when it is involved. Buying local helps to keep all these best to buy certain products, and to buy our people in employment and, importantly, keeps Food miles create road congestion, noise, favourite delicacies with confidence. the money in the local area too. disturbance and pollution.They also increase the need for refrigeration, packaging and processing of our food. Supports the farmers who manage our precious Supports the social structure and local landscape and protect the environment distinctiveness of an area Improves the freshness of your food and causes Local producers are often farmers looking to Over-centralisation of food has meant the loss of less stress for livestock develop a niche market by creating value-added regional and seasonal variety, local crafts and a produce which will allow them to carry on sense of belonging in the community. It has led to Local food is less likely to need processing, farming.This often involves stocking rare breeds a decline in small family farms, local abattoirs, preservatives and packaging, so it should arrive and using traditional methods and small shops and more – all of them unable to on your plate fresher and healthier than food environmentally friendly farming practices. compete in today’s global market. which has been transported for many miles. Livestock suffer stress when transported and this So buying local food helps farmers to preserve can affect the quality of their meat.This means our special landscapes, protects and increases the locally butchered meat tends to be tastier as well range of plant and animal species in the area, and as fresher. provides a long-term future for farming.

2 Local Food Directory www.forestofbowland.com 3 The Forest of Bowland AONB Local produce in Bowland

The Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covers The Forest of Bowland is gaining a reputation for fine food and local 312 square miles of rural Lancashire and North Yorkshire. It is a nationally produce, so why not seek out some local producers and try it yourself? protected landscape because of its unspoiled and richly diverse landscapes, Use our directory to find the food you’re looking for and visit the suppliers wildlife and heritage. It stretches from the wooded cloughs of the Lune Valley and retailers.There are also several farmers’ markets around Bowland in the north to the majestic sweep of in the south, and from the where you can meet the producers and try and buy their food. quiet lanes of Eldroth and Lawkland in the east through the pastoral to Beacon Fell and in the west.

The primary purpose of the AONB is to snipe and redshank.There are also valuable As the Forest of Bowland is a sheep and Without food production our countryside would conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the wildflower meadows, woodlands and geological cattle-farming area, you’ll find delicious local lamb look very different. Farming methods have area, whilst meeting the social and economic features within the AONB. and beef, as well as pork and even wild boar! shaped our land – creating field patterns with dry needs of landowners, farmers and communities. The area also offers classic and modern varieties stone walls and hedgerows, farmsteads, barns and The AONB has a secondary duty to cater for AONB status has helped the area to maintain its of Lancashire cheese, milk and ice cream and working villages. By supporting the farmers who recreation and tourism, but only if this is special qualities. Its beautiful scenery and pretty supports several organic farms and choose to carry on farming, you can help protect consistent with protecting the natural beauty of villages are some of the area’s key attractions. market gardens. this living landscape. Several farmers are rearing the area. It is for this reason that we are traditional breeds (White Park cattle and The Forest of Bowland AONB is a very special promoting sustainable tourism in the Forest of Herdwick sheep, for example) and using place for wildlife, and the moors are an especially Bowland: tourism which depends on the area’s traditional methods (for example, heather-reared important breeding ground for upland birds. environment, and which will conserve and lamb) to bring you the very best flavour and Bowland is one of the few remaining breeding improve that environment, not detract from it. freshness – try it and buy it! sites in England for hen harriers (a nationally For example, Bowland offers wonderful threatened bird). It is also the home of the opportunities for quiet enjoyment such as bird- peregrine falcon and Britain's smallest bird of watching, cycling, fishing and horse-riding. And prey - the merlin.The damp unimproved upland with newly opened access land, the area now pastures attract large populations of wading birds offers some of the most remote and rugged in spring and summer including curlew, lapwing, walking in the north west.

4 Local Food Directory www.forestofbowland.com 5 Farmers’ markets Food outlets

Farmers’ markets are an increasingly popular way You can purchase much of the local produce to buy local. People like them as they are a way listed in the directory direct from the producer to meet several producers face to face, and or by phone or mail order. Some producers there is always the opportunity to chat and to however do not have the facilities to sell from find out more about how and where the food site and sell their produce to local delicatessens, is produced. farm shops, butchers or at farmers’ markets, markets and supermarkets. Many quality local Markets usually take place once or twice a butchers serve as retail outlets to meat month in some of our market towns and producers and farmers across Bowland, who are gateways to Bowland. Our cheese, meat and selected for their skill and expertise to provide vegetable producers are usually well represented. cuts of the finest quality. The focus for many of Bentham – High Bentham Market Hall – the producers is to put quality above volume to 1st Saturday in the month, 9.30am to 1.00pm enable the creation of an excellent meat product with traceability from farm to fork. When visiting Fence – the Sparrow Hawk pub – your butcher, why not ask what local meat they Last Sunday of the month, 9.30am to 2.00pm have available? Grimsargh – Village Hall There are several high quality farm shops in and 3rd Saturday in the month, 9.00am to 2.00pm around Bowland. The farm shops mostly stock Lancaster – Market Square – their own produce including meat, dairy, eggs, 2nd Saturday in the month, 9.30am to 3.00pm vegetables and fruit.To provide a full range of fresh Settle – Market Square – quality produce, farms also buy in from other local 2nd Sunday in the month, 9.30am to 3.00pm and regional producers. Huntley’s at Samlesbury, Fairfield Farmshop at Clayton le Dale,Taste Skipton – Canal basin – Delicatessen & Cheesie Tchaikovsky in March to September, 10.00am to 4.00pm and Old Holly Farm at are all good There are also regular markets at , examples and are located just outside the AONB, Garstang, Bentham, Settle and Clitheroe. but stock a wide variety of local produce; on-site cafes also provide an opportunity to sample some Northern Harvest also delivers to homes in the of the quality produce the area has to offer. area. For more details visit www.northernharvest.co.uk. Image credits Pages 4-5 & 14 © Countryside Agency • Charlie Headley Page 3 © Countryside Agency • Tessa Bunney Cover, Pages 3, 9, 11, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29 & 30 © Made in Lancashire

6 Local Food Directory www.forestofbowland.com 7 Key Listings A-B

The following symbols are used to highlight the various food Alston Dairy 1 Bashall Barn 2 types available from each producer: Longridge, PR3 3BN Bashall Town, Clitheroe, BB7 3LQ Tel:01772 782621 Tel: 01200 428964 Web: www.alstondairy.co.uk Web: www.bashallbarn.co.uk Baking Fish Poultry & Game Ann Forshaw's dairy is a long established dairy Bashall Barn has developed a reputation as a farm, rearing pure breed Friesian cows for centre for excellence in the Ribble Valley for over 40 years. Since 1980s, Ann and her family the food it makes and sells. Famous for its have been producing a wide range of yogurts home made cakes, meals and ice cream. Preserves & that are now sold nationally. Beverages Fruit & Vegetables Outlets: on-site café and farm shop. Confectionary Outlets: various local supermarkets.

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Bowland through the seasons

Part of the enjoyment of eating local food is its Spring: The first spring eggs, chicken, early freshness, and eating food in season is the best herbs, purple-sprouting broccoli, cauliflowers, Bowland Brewery 3 Bowland Forest Foods 4 way to really taste the difference. Eating salad leaves and cabbages. Bashall Town, Clitheroe, BB7 3LQ Home Farm Office,Abbeystead, LA2 9BQ seasonal food also brings you natural variety Tel: 01200 443592 Tel: 01524 793558 and food at its nutritional peak.Wild food is Summer: River trout, fresh lamb, lettuces, spring Web: www.bowlandbrewery.com Web: www.bowlandforest.co.uk here too – look out for bilberries on the onions, new potatoes, herbs, bilberries, The Bowland Beer Company started Formed in 2000 as a subsidiary of Bowland moors, and damsons, sloes and elderflowers in damsons and soft fruit. operating in April 2003, brewing on a one farmers co-operative to serve the trading the hedgerow. Brewers Barrel (BBL). It is now producing interests of its farmer members in the Autumn: Grouse, apples, tomatoes, pumpkins, beer that is loved by landlords and their Forest of Bowland. Selling beef, lamb and pork. So, what’s in season? plums, blackberries, sloes and wild mushrooms. customers across Bowland. Outlets: telephone and mail order, Winter: Local pheasant, baked ham, sausages Bowland lamb, pork and beef are now available Outlets: Bashall Barn, local pubs, local butchers and restaurants. and winter vegetables such as brussels sprouts, all year round. D Byrne & Co. leeks, onions and parsnips.

8 Local Food Directory www.forestofbowland.com 9 Bashall Barn Listings B

Bashall Barn is a people place, run by Simon Barnes and managed by friendly staff who Bowland Forest Sheep's Milk 5 Bowland Outdoor Reared 6 provide warm and friendly service with a smile. Lee House Farm, Chipping Road, Pork, Beef and Lamb Established in 2001, the barn sits at the centre of Thornley, PR3 2TB South Mire Farm, Lowgill, LA2 8RB the Bashall Hall Estate in the beautiful Ribble Tel: 01772 786944 Tel: 015242 63031 Valley, surrounded by miles of green and pleasant Established in 1999, producing sheep’s milk Web: www.bowlandpork.co.uk countryside with wonderful views and scenery. from a Friesland herd, which roam freely on A small family run business priding themselves The barn is changing rapidly as it expands to use the pastures next to the family farm. on excellent produce. Livestock roam free on the redundant farm buildings that surround it. Outlets: Booths supermarket. rich, unspoilt pastures ensuring meat of the highest quality. Bashall Barn is committed to selling locally produced goods. Products on sale in the farm Outlets: mail order and farmers’ markets. shop include speciality bacon and sausages, cheese, pickles, preserves and sauces, along with the finest local ale brewed on site at the Bowland Brewery. Increasingly popular are the Bashall Barn hampers, which present only the best ingredients and gifts and can be personalised to your taste. They also make their own cakes, scones, ready meals and award-winning ice creams on site in an open-plan kitchen. Bashall Barn won the Made in Lancashire Ice Cream Award in 2005. You can also enjoy the delicious range of homemade produce in the warm and comfy barn café.The café has a licence to sell alcohol and is easily accessible and enjoyable for all.

Bowland Wild Boar Park 7 Brades Farm Dairy 8 Chipping, PR3 2QT Brades Farm, Farleton, LA2 9LF Tel: 01995 61554 Tel: 015242 21589 Web: www.wildboarpark.co.uk Web: www.bradesfarm.co.uk The Wild Boar Park first opened the farm to Specialising in producing high quality, fully the public in 1999 diversifying from traditional traceable milk products from their own dairy farming practices. It is also worth a visit in herd, straight from the farm to the customers' order to purchase the wild boar meat sold at doorsteps. Also supply fruit juices, cheese, the farm shop. yoghurt and eggs. Outlets: on-site shop. Outlets: doorstep and retail outlets.

10 Local Produce Directory www.forestofbowland.com 11 Bowland Brewery Listings B

The Bowland Beer Company Ltd started operating in April 2003, brewing on a one Bradshaws Farm Shop 9 Burholme Farm 10 brewer’s barrel (BBL) plant in a storeroom at the Prospect Farm, Bye Pass Road, , BB7 3AU Bashall Barn farm shop. In August 2003, a 5 BBL Garstang, PR3 0LP Tel: 01200 448244 brewery was installed in an industrial unit in Tel: 01995 603737 The Spence Family have been farming cattle Accrington whilst an old Bashall Barn milking A family run farm shop producing and selling and sheep at the farm for 40 years. They are parlour was converted for the purpose.The their own and locally produced fruit and now offering limited supplies of their farm- brewery moved back to Bashall, England's vegetables. The shop has grown from a small reared beef and lamb direct to discerning smallest town, in late January and brewing started cabin to now using an old shippen where they people who appreciate the quality and taste of again in February 2004. used to milk cows. real meat. Outlets: on-site shop. Outlets: telephone orders. Every part of the brewery’s business is continually reviewed to produce beer that is loved by landlords and their customers.These efforts were rewarded in 2004 with a silver medal at the Peterborough Beer Festival and the Best Bitter for Sawley Tempted at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.The brewery also won the award for Best Beer at the Clitheroe Beer Festival in 2006. The Bowland Brewery is situated a few miles from the geographical heart of the United Kingdom and the AONB, in an area that typifies all that is good about our beautiful country.

Burn House Farm 11 Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses 12 Newton-in-Bowland, Clitheroe, BB7 3EE Inglewhite Tel: 01200 446393 Tel: 01772 781500 Farm assured English home grown lamb. Web: www.butlerscheeses.co.uk Boxed, vac-packed and cut however the Producers of cheese at the family dairy for customer requires and delivered ready for the over 70 years. As well as regional varieties such freezer. as Tasty Lancashire, Double Gloucester and Outlets: telephone orders and direct from Red Leicester, they also make their own unique the farm. and popular blue cheese, Blacksticks Blue. Outlets: various local supermarkets. Please note: no on-site shop.

12 Local Produce Directory www.forestofbowland.com 13 Bowland Forest Foods Listings C-D

Bowland Forest Foods is owned by a Bowland 14 farmers’ cooperative where farmers have joined Carron Lodge Cheese 13 Cliftons Farm together to supply their produce direct to Park Head Farm, Inglewhite, PR3 2LN Cliftons Farm, Silk Mill Lane, Inglewhite, customers. Located in the heart of the Forest of Tel: 01995 640352 Goosnargh, PR3 2LP Bowland, this small company offers a fine range A fourth generation farming family producing Tel:01995 640564 of succulent quality meats reared by farmers award winning Lancashire blue cheese. Organic dairy farm. Some soft fruit and who care. All products are processed and Including blue-vein real farmhouse cheese, vegetables when in season. Homemade ice distributed through local, fully licensed and produced on the farm from their pedigree cream and farmhouse cheese. regulated businesses to bring customers meats herd of cows. Also a small caravan site. which are both high in quality and assured for Outlets: widely available from food retailers Outlets: on-site. excellent taste. throughout the north west. Bowland Forest Foods works closely with farmers, butchers and restaurants to provide the very finest English meat from the Forest of Bowland. Butchers and chefs have been selected for their skill and expertise, guaranteeing to provide superb quality and service. For a full listing of the butchers, hotels and restaurants offering Bowland Forest Foods produce, please visit the website.The company has recently launched a new product – a naturally produced, sweet-tasting heather-reared lamb. The lambs roam freely amongst the heather, gorse and bracken, producing a succulent and wholesome flavour – the way lamb should taste.

Cringlebrook 15 Dalesbred Finest Meats 16 Cringlebrook Farm,Ashley Lane, Deep Clough Farm, Littledale, Goosnargh, PR3 2EE Lancaster, LA2 9HB Tel: 01772 865279 Tel: 01524 770574 Traditional handmade goats cheese, made from Web: www.dalesbredfinestmeats.co.uk the Battarbee's own goats milk.The cheese is A family run farm with very low stocking rates. hard pressed to give it a firm creamy texture. The animals are grown slowly and naturally and It is then ripened, as mild and creamy or mature. live a stress-free life. Producing quality beef, Outlets: Booths supermarket and direct from lamb, heather-reared mutton and pork with the farm. delivery to the majority of the UK. Outlets: telephone and mail order.

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Bowland Outdoor Reared Pork is a small family 17 18 business which prides itself on providing excellent Dew-Lay Ellel Free Range Poultry produce. Livestock roams free on the rich, unspoilt Garstang, PR3 0PR The Stables, Ellel Grange, Galgate, LA2 0HN Tel: 01995 602335 Tel: 01524 751200 pastures of the Forest of Bowland, ensuring pork, Web: www.dewlay.com Web: www.ellelfreerangepoultry.co.uk/ beef and lamb of the highest quality. Family cheese-making business since 1957. In 1997 Susie and Richard Charles (fed up with The pigs are a large white cross-Landrace bred Specialists in a full range including creamy, tasty eating the cotton wool that is marketed under from a 40-strong herd of Landrace sows and a and crumbly Lancashire cheese, using milk the name "poultry") reared 75 free-range large white boar. Once weaned at 8 weeks of sourced from the Trough of Bowland. Also bronze turkeys with phenomenal success. home to Garstang Blue. Currently still relatively small producers, but also age, the piglets are reared in outdoor straw- rearing free-range chickens, guinea fowl and geese. bedded kennels, fed on a natural cereal-based Outlets: various local supermarkets, independent stores and also Outlets: on-site and telephone orders. diet and organic cheese whey. available from the dairy. Beef is mainly from Aberdeen Angus-cross cattle which share their grazing with a small flock of hill sheep producing Texel lambs. All of these are reared slowly and traditionally, eating mainly lush grass with a cereal and hay diet through the winter. All the animals are taken to a small local abattoir, and all meat is cut and packed professionally on the farm.This means that all products can be traced back to their origins and reach you in prefect condition. The quality of the meat is reflected in the number of awards the company has won.These include Northwest Fine Food’s Producer of the Year, Best Pork and Best Overall Sausage Awards in 2004, and Best Pork category for the stuffed 19 20 pork fillet in 2003. Farmhouse Fare Food by Breda Murphy Anderson House, Salthill, Lincoln Way, Abbots Court, 41 Station Rd, Bowland Outdoor Reared Pork’s produce is Clitheroe, BB7 1QL Whalley, BB7 9RH available at farmers’ markets and food events Tel: 01200 453110 Tel: 01254 823446 across the north west.The company specialises in Web: www.farmhousefare.co.uk Web: www.foodbybredamurphy.com/ hog roasts and barbeques for special events and Farmhouse Fare Ltd is a manufacturer of The in-house kitchen prepares classic ready functions. And you can now enjoy their produce premium desserts. Products contain no additives meals to take away both fresh and frozen.The through a new mail order service. or preservatives and all ingredients could have shop offers a range of quality produce come straight from your own kitchen cupboard. including Breda’s own range of jams, chutneys Outlets: mail order, various local supermarkets and own label coffee. and small delicatessens. Outlets: on-site delicatessen and restaurant.

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Adjacent to the Hodder River in the heart of the 21 22 Forest of Bowland, Burholme farm is one of the Gazegill Organic Farm Greenfields Dairy Products oldest farms owned by the Duchy of Lancaster, Lower Gazegill Farm, Cross Hill Lane, Syke House Lane, Goosnargh, Rimington, BB7 4EE Preston, PR3 2EN dating back to the 14th Century. The Spence Tel: 0200 445312 Tel: 01995 640312 family have been farming cattle and sheep for Web: www.gazegillorganics.com Web: www.greenfieldsdairy.co.uk more than 40 years and until the late 1990’s A family run farm supplying organic pork, Family owned and run, making a full range of were also dairy farmers. In 2003 they diversified lamb and highland beef. Providing highest English regional and speciality cheeses. and are now able to offer limited supplies of quality meats cut in a traditional way in the Outlets: Booths supermarket, local butchers their farm-reared beef and lamb direct to people farm butchery. and markets. who appreciate the quality and taste of real meat. Outlets: on-site shop. Please note no on-site shop. This premium meat will be delivered to you vacuum packed, boxed and labelled, ready to drop straight into your freezer. Each box contains a variety of the most popular cuts.

Growing with Grace 23 Hodder Valley Organic Lamb 24 Clapham Nursery, Clapham, LA2 8ER Woodhouse Gate Farm, , BB7 3AQ Tel: 01524 251723 Tel: 01200 446240 Web: www.growingwithgrace.co.uk Web: www.woodhousegatefarmcottage.co.uk Based on an ethos of 'local food for local Sale of 1/2 or full boxed organic prime lamb people'.The organic shop and home delivery direct from the farm. Reared on clover bag scheme supply a range of organic pastures in the heart of the Forest of Bowland. vegetables, fruit and dry goods. Outlets: mail order or delivery or collection Outlets: on-site shop, markets and from the farm. farmers’ markets.

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Growing with Grace is a social enterprise run as a co-operative (an employee-owned business). Holly Cottage Preserves 25 Holwood Farmhouse Cheese 26 Centred on two-acres of greenhouses at the 1Higher Hodder Bridge Cottages, Chipping Hallidays Farm, Moss Lane, edge of the Forest of Bowland AONB and the Lane, Chaigley, BB7 3LP Bilsborrow, PR3 0RU Yorkshire Dales National Park, this unique Tel: 01254 826630 Tel: 01995 640393 operation is a valuable organic production Traditional and unusual preserves utilising local Web: www.holwoodcheese.co.uk centre.The project is based on the principle of produce, including free-range organic eggs, A family run business, Holwood’s farmhouse local food for local people and the greenhouses local spring water and fair-trade sugar. cheese is a highly prized and sought after help fill the hungry-gap by extending the Outlets: on-site, telephone and mail order speciality, made from milk from their award growing season. and various farmers’ markets. winning herd. Outlets: direct from farm, farmers’ markets, The organic shop and home-delivery box pubs, delicatessens & restaurants. scheme provide a range of organic vegetables, fruit and whole foods, making it easier to do all your organic food shopping in one place.They have a remarkably wide range of products considering the size of the shop, including: • a full range of organic tinned and pre-packed dry food; • organic dairy and soya food; • their own organic vegetables, which can be harvested while you wait; and • compost which they produce from Craven District Council's garden waste collection service. The compost is used at the nursery, as well as being available to buy at their on-site shop. Call in and see for yourself! Honeycomb Company 27 Hudsons Ice cream 28 Stoney Lane, Galgate, LA2 0QY 2 Downham Road, Chatburn, Tel: 01524 751347 Clitheroe, BB7 4AU Web: www.honeycombco.co.uk Tel: 01200 441305 A family business established in 1947 Hudons make their own delicious ice cream specialising in packing honey, honey products and sell local milk, eggs, honey, cakes and home and organic honey. With an extensive range cooked ham. of quality preserves and hand made biscuits, Sandwiches can also be bought in the shop made to their own recipes. utilising local meat, salads and vegetables. Outlets: on-site shop, health food stores Outlets: on-site shop. and delicatessens.

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Jigsaw Environmental was established on site in April 2004 by Trinity Partnership (Clitheroe). Jigsaw Environmental 29 Johnson & Swarbrick 30 Main Street, Gisburn, BB7 4HN Swainson House Farm, Goosnargh Lane, This new community enterprise aims to support Tel: 01200 415979 Goosnargh, PR3 2JU long-term economic development for people Six acre site producing organic certified Tel: 01772 865251 with disabilities and those at a disadvantage for vegetable, fruit and salad crops and delivering Web: economic or social reasons. Activity focuses on horticultural training to adults including those myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jandsgoosnargh/default.htm organic horticulture and producing certified with learning difficulties. All the poultry are fed via their own mixing organic food crops. Accredited training is plant to their own recipe, which is free from provided through a franchise arrangement with a Outlets: box scheme and also sell directly from the site. any additives, growth promoters, antibiotics local college. In November 2004 the group won and medication, producing a high quality bird. the New Business Start-Up Award from the Outlets: mail order via website or telephone. Lancashire Business Environment Association. Please note, no shop on-site. Many crops are grown, such as fruit (including gooseberries and blackcurrants), vegetables (including beetroot, cabbage, corn, peas and beans) and salad crops (including lettuce, tomatoes and radish).They also grow and sell cut daffodils in the spring, and pots of hyacinth bulbs for Christmas and the winter. Produce is sold on site, at farmers’ markets and through several local shops.

Keasden Organic Lamb and 31 Mrs Kirkhams 32 Pork Lancashire Cheese Long Bank Farm, Keasden, Clapham, LA2 8EY Beesley Farm, Mill Lane, Goosnargh, PR3 2FL Tel: 015242 51349 Tel: 01772 865335 Animals reared in a traditional way on the Web: www.mrskirkhams.com northern edge of the Forest of Bowland. This traditional handmade, unpasturised Lamb available in half or full and pork in Lancashire cheese has been produced on the quarter, half or full, jointed and ready for the family farm for 3 generations. Made from the freezer. Bacon and sausage also available. milk of their Friesian Holstein cows using a Outlets: telephone orders. three-day curd method. Outlets: on-site and Booths supermarket.

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This little dairy takes us back to the first place Lancashire cheese was made commercially – all Leagram Organic Dairy 33 Little Town Dairy 34 brought together by the expertise of Robert High Head Farm Buildings, Green Lane, Chipping Lane,Thornley, PR3 2TB Kitching and his family. Chipping, PR3 2TQ • Tel: 01995 61532 Tel: 01772 782429 Web: www.cheese-experience.com Web: www.littletowndairy.co.uk Set in beautiful countryside in the picturesque Manufacturer of organic cow and sheep milk Making quality yogurt for over 20 years. Also village of Chipping, Leagram Organic Dairy cheeses. All hand-made using local ingredients. producing freshly baked bread, cakes and pies, a produces award-winning cheese. Products range A small unique family run firm with a quality wide range of jams, as well as chutneys, pickles from native Lancashire – creamy, crumbly and product. and sauces, local fruit and vegetables and meat. tasty – to a mild Cheddar, a buttery Double Outlets: on-site shop, Booths supermarket, Outlets: on-site farm shop, local supermarkets. Gloucester, a smooth Red Leicester and, finally, a farm shops, restaurants, delicatessens creamy, unique sheep’s cheese which uses sheep’s and health food shops. milk from a nearby farm. All county varieties are produced under organic standards to the highest quality, but they are still made in the traditional way – by hand and waxed. As this dairy is small, different varieties can be created.The newest creation is a Lancashire soft cheese, similar to Feta but sweeter. With 30 years’ experience, Robert Kitching has also created a dairy for visitors to see how cheese is made today and a museum to see how cheese used to be made.With the help of this expert cheese-maker, who has brought the art of cheese-making to life in his unique demonstrations, Leagram organic cheeses will bring your taste buds alive. Come and take in ‘The Cheese Experience’.

Pendle View Fishery 35 Pye Nanny 36 A59 Bypass, Barrow, Clitheroe, BB7 9DH Pye Nanny Hall, Foundry Lane, Tel: 01254 822208 Halton, LA2 6BH Web: www.pendleview.co.uk Tel: 01524 32755 If you have not ever tasted fresh trout then Web: www.pyenannyhallnurseries.co.uk you are in for a wonderful experience. Simply Pye Nanny is well known for producing call into the fisheries and ask one of our seasonal local vegetables and herbs for you to friendly staff to fish you out some fresh trout purchase and enjoy. A new tearoom now also for your tea. offers refreshments with lovely views across to Outlets: on-site. the AONB. Outlets: on-site.

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The same family has farmed Little Town for three generations. Nestled on the edge of the Forest Ribble Aberdeen Angus 37 Robinson Bros Butchers 38 of Bowland, with breathtaking views of the fells, Rowntree Farms,Windy Pike, 1 Garstang Road, Chipping, PR3 2QH this family dairy farm specialises in premium Gisburn, BB7 4HZ Tel: 01995 61234 products made from the milk of their RSPCA Tel: 01200 445320 As well as producing beef and lamb from accredited herd. Web: www.ribbleaberdeen-angus.co.uk/ their own farm they are now producing their British breeds of cattle and sheep, suckled and own ice cream 'Uncle Bob's Farmhouse Ice Dairy produce includes crème fraiche, smoothie grazed on pastures by the , giving cream', using their own Ayrshire and Jersey drinks and farmhouse ice cream in mouth- finer grained, well-marbled meat and a tender, milk and cream from Thornber's of watering flavours, and luxury thick and creamy succulent eating experience. Cherrytree. yoghurts with real fruit pieces. A wide range of Outlets: telephone orders. Outlets: on-site shop. cheeses from the region (including organic) and fresh local milk, eggs and farmhouse butter are also available. The farm stocks a full range of farm-assured beef, lamb, pork and chicken, as well as turkey and duck at certain times of year. All beef is Aberdeen Angus, reared on the family farm and hung for between 2 and 3 weeks to give maximum flavour. Pork is from outdoor-reared Saddle Back pigs, free to roam the fields, resulting in extraordinary flavour.Their own lambs, grazing on the Bowland fells, produce top quality meat, and there is local Goosnargh chicken and award- winning dry cured bacon. The farm shop also sells freshly baked bread, cakes and pies, a wide range of jams, preserves and local honey, as well as chutneys, pickles and sauces. Logs, kindling and locally produced charcoal are also available. Roy Porter Butchers 39 K & H Sanderson 40 The fresh produce at Little Town changes as it 9 Bridge Road, Chatburn, BB7 4AW Brookside Farm, Moss Side Lane, does naturally with the seasons of the year. Tel: 01200 441392 Thornley, PR3 2ND So whether it’s delicious root vegetables for A traditional and organic butcher’s shop Tel: 01772 784952 a warming casserole in winter, or the first crop specialising in traditionally matured meat from Farm fresh free-range eggs. Gloucester old spot of English strawberries, come and enjoy the native breeds. Also producing delicious home- outdoor reared pork (ready for the freezer) variety on offer in the region, as well as the made pies, their own sausages and dry cured all farm born and reared. wonderful views! cured bacon, ready meals and various cheeses. Outlets: buy eggs at the farm gate, also Outlets: on-site shop. telephone orders and local delivery.

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Lancashire and Tourist Board are committed to ensure that your eating and drinking experiences 41 42 JJ Sandham Ltd. AD & PE Shorrock are the best you can get. By introducing the ‘Taste Lancashire’ quality marque they are able to tell you which Rostock Dairy, Garstang Road, Newhouse Farm, Ford Lane, establishments provide a consistently high quality eating experience along with a commitment to local produce. Barton, PR3 5AA Goosnargh, PR3 2FJ Tel: 01995 640247 Tel: 01772 865250 The following listing indicates those restaurants carrying the awards as at September 2009. New establishments Web: www.jjsandham.co.uk Handmade farmhouse Lancashire cheeses, made are gaining this quality marque every week. For an up to date listing visist www.visitlancashire.com Third generation family run cheese manufacturers by following methods and recipes from four est. 1929, producing hand-made Lancashire generations of the Shorrock family. Mild and How will you know you are eating in a Taste Lancashire establishment? Simple... look for a plaque cheeses. Their products have won many prizes at tasty Lancashire and other unusual variations displaying the logo: cheese shows nationally. Their own on-site cheese including red onion, chilli and peppercorn. smoking facility produces their Smoked Lancashire. Outlets: local retailers, mail order, Outlets: Booths and Morrissons supermarkets. farmers’ markets.

Bay Horse Inn Bayley Arms Forton • 01524 791204 Hurst Green • 01254 826478 Bridge House Farm Tea Rooms Exchange Coffee Company Wray • 01524 22496 Clitheroe • 01200 442270 The Carmen Rose Tea Rooms Pendle Heritage Centre Tea Rooms • 01254 878431 Barrowford • 01282 661702 Cobble Hey Farm & Gardens The Priory Claughton on Brock • 01995 602643 Scorton • 01524 791255 Fence Gate Inn Fence • 01282 618101 Food by Breda Murphy The Highest Quality Assured Award Whalley • 01254 823446 is given to eateries acheiving over 80% in their assessment. Singleton’s Dairy 43 Trough of Bowland Spring 44 Gibbon Bridge Restaurant Mill Farm, Preston Road, Longridge, PR3 3AN Chipping • 01995 61456 Water Company The Quality Assured Award Tel: 01772 782112 Far Lodge Farm, , LA2 9EF Parkers Arms Inn is given to eateries acheiving 60~80% in Web: www.singletons.uk.com Tel: 01524 35560 Newton in Bowland • 01200 446236 their assessment. Award winning English territorial cheese Web: www.bowlandspringwater.com The Inn at Whitewell specialists in Lancashire (traditional). Based in the Quernmore Valley, bottling still Whitewell • 01200 448222 Unique products include Parlick ewes milk and sparkling spring water at source. Offering cheese and Grandma Singletons Lancashire - a range of bottled waters in plastic and glass The Red Pump Inn Bashall Eaves • 01254 826227 a premium Lancashire matured for a minimum for both retail and catering consumers. of 12 months. Outlets: various retail outlets. The Shireburn Arms Outlets: Booths supermarket. Hurst Green • 01254 826518 Three Fishes • 01254 826888

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