| 2014-09-17 |    |
Pasture Farmers Recognised at Fine Farm Produce Awards
Three members of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association who are National Trust tenants, received prizes at the recent ‘Fine Farm Produce Awards’ organised by the National Trust and held in Bristol.
The National
Trust Fine Farm
Produce Awards celebrate the very best local produce from farms and estates
across the country. Twenty-five winners were recognised for 45 outstanding
food, drink and countryside products, ranging from beef to honey and
beer to mushrooms.
National Trust winners: James and Victoria Hawkins (left), Luke Hasell (3rd from right) and Neil and Leigh Heseltine (right); with John Meadley (3rd from left) Chairman of the PFLA and Rebecca Charley (centre) National Trust Food and Farming advisor in the South West and also a PFLA approved supplier of Red Poll beef.
Neil and Leigh Heseltine won the award for Best Belted Galloway Beef for their pasture-fed beef produced at Hill Top Farm in the Yorkshire Dales.
Neil said:
“Winning this award gives us an affirmation that
we’re doing something right, and gives us the confidence to continue
our approach to farming, striving to create the right balance between
benefitting the environment and food production.” You can buy some
of their beef from For
Heaven’s Stake.
Luke Hasell from the Chew Valley in Somerset entered his pasture-fed beef for the first time this year and won the organic beef category. He produces the beef from his herd of Red Devons and sells it through the Story Group, a growing organic farming collective supplying customers in Bristol and beyond.
Also, James and Victoria Hawkins from
Warren Farm in Herefordshire received an award for their cold pressed
rapeseed
oil, which they produce on their farm in fields rotated
with pasture.
