The award-winning Welbeck Farm Shop, on the Welbeck estate, near Worksop, will celebrate British Food Fortnight by serving up its best zero food miles products, including the most talked about cheese in Britain, Stichelton.
Welbeck Farm Shop prides itself on showcasing produce from the estate’s thriving community of food producers. A focus on low food miles, drawing on a rich artisan food tradition, and subjecting every product line to rigorous taste testing has earned a reputation as one of the country’s top farm shops, with two thirds of the shop’s product range sourced from, or prepared at, the historic estate:
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Stichelton Dairy – producer of Stichelton, one of the very few unpasteurised English blue cheeses, made using unpasteurised cow’s milk from the single herd of pedigree Holstein cows at Welbeck.
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Welbeck Abbey Brewery – brewer of delicious real ales, with a production of 15,000 pints of handcrafted beer a week.
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Welbeck Bakehouse – produces handmade award-winning sourdoughs following traditional baking methods. Using long fermentation with no artificial additives or preservatives creates a healthier, tastier loaf.
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Raw Milk – Holstein cows at the Welbeck Dairy, just 1.5 miles away, are milked each morning and the milk is cooled within minutes, without contact with the air, and immediately taken to the shop. Launched in December 2015 it has far exceeded expectations and is currently selling 400 litres a week.
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Butchery – the award-winning butchery stocks meat and game from the estate and also dry cures and smokes all of its own bacon, which is aged in a bespoke maturing room.
British Food Fortnight is the biggest annual, national celebration of British food and drink, 17th September – 2nd October 2016.
Oliver Stubbins, Welbeck Farm Shop Manager, said: “Welbeck Farm Shop has been celebrating British Food Fortnight since we opened in 2006. We have an incredible community of food producers at Welbeck, and it’s a great opportunity to show off their products. It’s really special to be able to buy their produce on the estate where it is made – some of the produce, like the meat, game and raw milk, can’t be bought anywhere else!”
During British Food fortnight, visitors can enjoy tasting sessions from the food producers at Welbeck, plus there will be triple points on the ‘Made at Welbeck’ range for all Welbeck Card members. Also in the Courtyard at Welbeck, The Harley Gallery will be exhibiting a triple bill of exhibitions on the theme of the English Garden, and the Welbeck estate’s historic art collection is on show in The Portland Collection.
For more information on British Food Fortnight, visit: www.lovebritishfood.co.uk.
Find out more about the Welbeck estate and Welbeck Farm Shop online: www.welbeck.co.uk
