Croots Farm Shop wins national award with its Bakewell tart

The Bakewell tart produced by Derbyshire-based Croots Farm Shop has been crowned the nation’s best sweet bake in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015. 

The Duffield farm shop’s home-made Bakewell tart was selected as a winner in the awards run by Great British Food Magazine. 

Owner Steve Croot said: “We were thrilled when our Bakewell tart was chosen as a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards. To win the category and to be named as the best sweet bake in a national competition, run by a national food magazine, is just amazing. 

“This is not just great news for Croots Farm Shop - it also flies the flag for one of Derbyshire’s well-known food products. All our Bakewell tarts are made by manager Margaret Robinson and her team, here at the shop, using a recipe that has been in Margaret’s family for generations. We love it, our customers love it and we are delighted to hear that the judges loved it too and have crowned it a real winner.” 

Croots Farm Shop, based at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, sells more than 50 Bakewell tarts a week, with demand growing since news of the award short listing spread, said Steve. 

Tom Shingler, deputy editor of Great British Food Magazine, said of the awards: “We had a record-breaking 353 entries from 242 companies, making this the biggest awards yet. For us, provenance was a priority. The categories were all very hotly contested, so very well done to all the winning and highly commended producers.” 

Croots Bakewell tart will now feature in the September edition of Great British Food Magazine, on the shelves from 31^st July 2015. 

Croots Farm Shop opened seven years ago and sells a range of home-produced items, including sausages and meat products, pies, ready meals and flavoured oils. 

It has won a wide range of awards for its products, and last year Steve Croot was named as the Derbyshire Food Hero. 

Croots Farm Shop and Shires Eatery employs a 32-strong workforce. 

Croots Farm Shop is open Monday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm (Shires Eatery until 4.30pm) and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays. Croots runs Fresh Fish Thursdays between 9am and 1pm on Thursdays.

For more information visit www.croots.co.uk

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Croots Farm Shop a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015

Derbyshire-based Croots Farm Shop has won a place in the final of the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015. 

The Duffield farm shop’s Bakewell tart was named as one of ten short-listed products in the sweet bake category of the awards, run by Great British Food Magazine. 

Owner Steve Croot said: “We are thrilled that our Bakewell tart has been selected as a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards. 

“We receive great feedback from our customers about how much they love our home-produced Bakewell tart, and to be chosen for the shortlist of an award in a national magazine is amazing. We sell about 50 Bakewell tarts a week – and the number is growing all the time. They’re very popular. It’s really good to be flying the flag for Derbyshire food on the national stage too.”  

Croots Farm Shop, based at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, opened seven years ago and sells a range of home-produced items, including sausages and meat products, pies, ready meals and flavoured oils. 

It has won a wide range of awards for its products, and last year Steve Croot was named as the Derbyshire Food Hero. 

Tom Shingler, deputy editor of Great British Food Magazine, said of the awards: “We had a record-breaking 353 entries from 242 companies, making this the biggest awards yet. For us, provenance was a priority.” 

Winners of the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015 will be announced on 29^th June 2015. 

Croots Farm Shop and Shires Eatery employs a 32-strong workforce. 

Croots Farm Shop is open Monday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm (Shires Eatery until 4.30pm) and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays. Croots runs Fresh Fish Thursdays between 9am and 1pm on Thursdays.

For more information visit www.croots.co.uk 

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Haughton Honey a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015

Cheshire-based Haughton Honey has won a place in the final of the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015. 

The honey was named as one of ten short-listed products in the sweet preserves category of the awards, run by Great British Food Magazine. 

Bee farmer Cris Reeves, who launched Haughton Honey last year, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to have been selected as a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards. 

“We receive great feedback from our customers about how much they love Haughton Honey, but to be chosen for the shortlist of an award in a national magazine is just amazing. It’s great exposure for the brand, and comes as we prepare to celebrate our first birthday.”   

Made by English bees and bottled by Haughton Honey, which is based at Radmore Farm, Haughton, in Cheshire, the brand is probably the most unadulterated honey that you can buy, added Cris. 

Featuring traces of dandelion, chestnut, lime, blackberry, clover and other wildflowers, Haughton Honey is cold extracted to protect the natural enzymes and proteins that make English honey so tasty. 

Five pence from the sale of each jar of Haughton Honey is donated to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to help protect bumblebees, and preserve and restore their habitats. It is vegetarian friendly and is 100% natural and pure. 

Tom Shingler, deputy editor of Great British Food Magazine, said of the awards: “We had a record-breaking 353 entries from 242 companies, making this the biggest awards yet. For us, provenance was a priority.” 

Cris, who has been a bee farmer for more than ten years, owns 300 hives. He is supplementing his supply of honey from apiaries all run by experienced bee farmers, and now has more than 1,600 hives in the cooperative, stretching across the North West and the Midlands, including Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. 

Haughton Honey is sold in more than 60 stores, as well as being available direct to customers via its website www.haughtonhoney.com Stockists include Walter Smith Fine Food at Bridgemere Garden World near Nantwich in Cheshire, reputedly the largest garden centre in Europe, the Gift Shop at Chester Cathedral, Tatton Park shop, Amaranth Wellbeing in Bramhall, a health and wellbeing retailer that recently won Best Independent Retailer of The Year in the Natural & Organic Awards, and Cheerbrook Farm Shop, the multi-award winning farm shop situated outside of Nantwich. 

“We’re so excited with the news that our honey has been chosen as a finalist in such a high-profile awards scheme, and would really like to thank our customers and our stockists, who have been really supportive of Haughton Honey,” added Cris. 

Winners of the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015 will be announced on 29^th June 2015. 

For more details visit www.haughtonhoney.com

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