Page 4 - Yorkshire Post Rural Awards 2017: The Winners

YORKSHIRE POST SATURDAY OCTOBER 14 2017
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Large Farm Shop of the Year
KEELHAM FARM SHOP
WINNER
CHAMPION: Adam Bedford, left, of NFU North East, with Victoria Robertshaw and Michael Boyle.
Keelham Farm Shop has produced and sold fresh food for over 40 years and in 2015, opened a second shop in Skipton to add to its original premises just outside Bradford.
From small family farm origins, Keelham has become a substantial business that supports the region’s economy, farmers and producers by championing affordable, local, great-tasting fresh food.
Since Victoria Robertshaw and her brother
James took over in 2006, following their father’s death, annual sales have grown from £2m to £21m and, across two shops, Keelham now serves more than one million customers a year and employs 341 staff.
Some 85 per cent of the fresh food it sells is from either Keelham’s own farm and production facilities or its network of over 400 farmers, independent producers and suppliers.
Small Farm Shop of the Year
BEADLAM GRANGE FARM SHOP AND TEAROOM
WINNER
BEST SERVICE: Dorothy Fairburn, of the CLA , second left, with the Beadlam Grange team.
Beadlam Grange is a working farm that breeds and rears Limousin beef ca le, and with the help of two skilled butchers their meat is served up at the counter in the on-site farm shop.
The ca le are managed so that they are slowly grown for tenderness and flavour and they enjoy two summers out at grass.
The farm shop, located at Pockley, York, is run according to three principles: use their
own produce, use locally produced food and, third, it must be from Yorkshire.
Its lamb comes from Glaves of Brompton, pork from Listers, Boroughbridge and bacon, ham and gammon from Rookes at Elvington. Its free range chickens come from just a mile away at Loose Birds, Harome.
Cakes and scones are freshly baked each day for its tea room and the shop sells home cooked meats, pates, pies and salads.
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