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ARTISAN BREAD!

Published 22nd June 2015

Well the month kicked off attending a couple of "Open Farm Sunday" events.  These national events have become a perfect opportunity for farms of all types to open up to the general public with activities, tours of the farm, tractor rides, meeting the host of other companies that service and supply farms and of course a range of food to sample!

We were invited to Sir Richard Sutton's Settled Estate (and sent a member of our team down to talk about how we grow, press and bottle our rapeseed oil and sell a few bottles too!) and also to the popular 
Uncle Henry's Farm Shop event at Grayingham, near Gainsborough.  Andrew (farmer)  me (Ronnie - baker and cook and head of Sales & Marketing) and son Jim who has now joined us part-time in Sales set off early for this event. Our stall was attractively dressed with lots of samples and copies of my cookery book and we had a good day meeting new people and chatting to all our regulars!

We were delighted to learn that the famous Welbournes Bakery at Navenby in Lincolnshire were crafting a special artisan loaf using our rapeseed oil and stone-ground flour from nearby Heckington Windmill.  This delicious cob is baked especially for the weekend when you can treat yourself to a lie in and take time to enjoy your locally produced food.  Baked every Friday and Saturday (although you can ask for a special order by ringing them - I am doing that for some of the bread I will be using for our Annual Groups Visit which we host every July on the first Thursday of the month).

We were once again asked to go into Lincoln Catering College and talk to the catering students.  Eighty students (in small groups) had an opportunity to learn from us how we grow, press and bottle our award winning rapeseed oil, taste my latest recipes and have the opportunity to win prizes of cookery books and oil, before moving onto other local food producers.  We really look forward to this event, especially as educating young people about farming and food production is so important to us.

I am just finalising details of the "Meet the Supplier" event we are attending for Lincolnshire Co-op at this year's Lincolnshire Show.  We are delighted to have been asked to welcome members in the Lincolnshire Co-op marquee (Row B, stand 8-25).  So come and say hello and we can tell you how we do things on Fulbeck Farms!  I'll tell you all about Lincolnshire Show next month.