Taste Directory: Producers

Feb 22 2008

BROWSE our listings of producers that have signed up to be part of the Taste Directory, including farmers, growers and manufacturers.

Blagdon Farm Shop 
16-18 Milkhope Centre, Blagdon, Northumberland, NE13 6DA 
Tel: 01670 789 924 
Email: enquiries@theblagdonfarmshop.co.uk 
Website: www.theblagdonfarmshop.co.uk 
Blagdon free range chicken and pork; Blagdon Kitchen ready meals; Northumbrian game, vegetables from Craigs at Tritlington; Horribly Healthy Musesli from Cornhill-on-Tweed.

The Cake Root  
Low Hall, Longframlington, Morpeth, Northumberland   
Tel: 01665 570 223 
Email: fionajane@thecakeroot.co.uk
Website: www.cakeroot.com
Vegetable-based root cakes.

Dyke Head Farm 
Dyke Head, Longwitton, Morpeth, Northumberland   
Tel: 01670 774 219 
Email: a.w.watson@btinternet.com
Wallington beef and lamb.

Fentimans Ltd
6 Rear Battle Hill, Hexham, NE46 1BB
Tel: 01434 609 847
Email: tiffany@fentimans.com
Fentimans produces a range of six botanically brewed beverages, all made with 100% natural ingredients and no additives or preservatives.

Gibside Larder 
Gibside, near Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE16 6BG 
Tel: 01207 541820  
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk 
Supporting local food producers and National Trust tenant farmers by selling quality, seasonal food. Open seven days a week March-October 11am-5pm, and November-February 11am-4pm. (Open from 10am Saturdays and Sundays.)

Gilchesters Organics Ltd
Gilchesters Farm, Hawkwell, Stamfordham, Northumberland, NE18 0Ql
Tel: 01661 886 119
Email: info@gilchesters.com
Website: www.gilchesters.com
Millers of organic stone ground flour sold through our onsite shop or from specialist food shops and delicatessens across the North East. We also sell organic beef and lamb from our farm shop and will deliver.

The Great Northumberland Bread Co.
Letham Hill Farm, Etal, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, TD12 4TP
Tel: 01890 820 562
Email: enquiries@greatnorthumberlandbreadco.co.uk
Working with flour from cereals grown by us and sourced as locally as possible, we produce breads in the English tradition using natural long term ferments, sourdoughs and barms baked in a home built wood fire fuelled by timber residue from local sawmills. Find our bread at farmers' markets.

Heatherslaw Bakery
Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, TD12 4TJ
Tel: 01890 820 208
Email: info@heatherslawbakery.fsbusiness.co.uk
Makers of cakes and biscuits available from National Trust shops across the North East, Dobbies garden centres in Ponteland and Birtley, Moorhouse Farm Shop, Stannington, Heighley Gate garden centre, Morpeth, Berwick Garden Centre, Blagdon Farm Shop and Heatherslaw Corn Mill, Ford Forge (in season).

Heatherslaw Corn Mill
Ford Forge, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, TD12 4TJ
Tel: 01890 820 488/01890 820 338
Email: miller@heatherslaw.org.uk
Restored Victorian water mill producing fresh stoneground wholemeal flour and selling associated cereal products.

High House Farm Brewery
Near Matfen, Northumberland, NE20 0RG
Tel: 01661 886 192
Email: sally@highhousefarmbrewery.co.uk
Small, family business producing eight different real ales, all made with barley grown on their 200-acre working farm. Also have a visitor centre with an award winning tea room and brewery shop.

Honeybush & Butterbum Ltd
St. Petersgate, Charles Street, Sunderland, SR6 0AN
Tel: 07703 701 231
Email: sharon@t-please.com
Website: www.t-please.com
We sell loose-leaf white tea that we import directly from the plantation in the Fujian province of China, and package in the North East under our own brand name. Our tea can be bought either from local delicatessens or direct from our website.

Jenkins & Hustwit
3b Laurel Way, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7NF
Tel: 01388 605 005
Email: enquiries@jenkinsandhustwit.com
Website: www.jenkinsandhustwit.com
Handmade award winning traditionally baked luxury fruit cakes and puddings available from Asda stores across the North East and fine food outlets.

Jo's Home-baked Bread
33 Rye Terrace, Hexham, NE46 3DX
Tel: 01434 608 456
Email: joburrill@btinternet.com
Produces a wide selection of organic home-baked breads using mostly local flour. The range includes sour dough, spelt, and focaccia. Available from Hexham farmers' market on the 2nd and 4th Saturday 9.00 - 1.30.

Lintz Hall Farm Ltd 
Lintz Hall Farm, Lintz Lane, Burnopfield, NE16 6AS  
Tel: 01207 270 233  
Email: george@lintzhallfarm.com
Free range egg producers and retailers; 600 acre farm running sheep and cattle; livery horses.

Loopy Lisa's Fudge
Unit 1, Randolph Industrial Estate, Evenwood, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7SJ
Tel: 01388 835 135
Email: info@loopylisasfudge.co.uk
Website: www.loopylisasfudge.co.uk
Unique handmade fudges made where possible with locally sourced ingredients. Recipes adapted from a traditional Women's Institute template, using all butter and evaporated milk. Buy from fine food shops, farm shops and farmers' markets across the North East.

Meldon Park Kitchen Garden 
Meldon Park, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 3SW 
Tel: 01670 772 512 
Email: suzi@flying-fox.co.uk 
Website: www.meldonpark.co.uk 
Five miles west of Morepth, Meldon Park Kitchen Garden is the historic walled garden of Meldon park. The Kitchen Garden Shop stocks the seasonal fruit and vegetables grown in the garden, along with a large range of local and regional food and drink. Teas and coffees are also available and entry is free.

Mrs P's Country Kitchen
33 Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, DL12 8JU
Tel: 01833 695 508
Email: enid@mrs-ps.co.uk
Handmade biscuits, cakes and rich fruit cakes, jam, chutneys and other preserves.

North East Organic Growers
West Sleekburn Farm, Bomarsund, Bedlington, NE22 7AD
Tel: 01670 821 070
Email: neog@care4free.net
Workers co-op based at Earth Balance, Bomarsund which grows organic vegetables and runs a "box scheme". The produce is guaranteed to be free of added pesticides, herbicides and GMOs, and is grown using ecologically sound and sustainable methods.

Northumberland Cheese Co.
The Dairy, Green Lane, Blagdon, Seaton Burn, NE13 6BZ
Tel: 01670 789 798
Email: jackie@northumberland-cheese.co.uk
Producer of 16 artisan cheeses from cow, sheep and ewe milk, all available to sample and buy from cheese/coffee shop at the dairy.

Northumbrian Pedigree
Marley Cote Walls, Slaley, Northumberland, NE47 0DQ
Tel: 01434 673 244
Email: paul@northumbrianpedigree.com
Website: www.northumbrianpedigree.com
Quality GM free milk and cream produced from the Marleycote herd of Pedigree dairy shorthorns and Ayrshires.

Piperfield Pork
The Dovecote, Lowick, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 2QE
Tel: 01289 388543
Email: enquiries@piperfield.com
Producers of the finest quality Middle White pork, sausages, bacon, ham and air dried charcuterie. Offer a mail order service.

Proof of the Pudding
Heckley High House, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2LQ
Tel: 01665 602 505
Email: enquiry@theproofofthepudding.co.uk
Website: www.theproofofthepudding.co.uk
Homemade puddings and sauces available from independent fine food outlets and farm shops across the North East.

Pumphreys Coffee Ltd
Bridge Street, Blaydon, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE21 4JH
Tel: 0191 414 4510
Email: sales@pumphreys-coffee.co.uk
Website: www.pumphreys-coffee.co.uk
Supplier of roasted coffee and locally blended tea.

Ringtons Ltd
Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle, NE6 2YN
Tel: 0191 209 7030
Website: www.ringtons.co.uk
Suppliers of fresh coffees, teas, biscuits and cakes to the catering industry and consumers through door-to-door delivery service.

Rugley Meat   
Rugley Farm, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2JE  
Tel: 01665 602528  
Email: alan@rugley.co.uk
Suppliers of home-reared beef and lamb, ready-frozen and delivered to your door.

Sunnyhill Eggs
Detchant Farm, Belford, Northumberland, NE70 7PF
Tel: 01668 219 970
Email: info@sunnyhilleggs.com
Produce free range eggs in a traditional and respectful manner. Hens are reared at farms over looking the island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland. The hens have a spacious field together with a large state of the art shed, which allows them to roam freely, relax and socialise – thus producing a better way of life for the hens and larger, higher quality eggs.

Thomsons Bakery
385 Stamfordham Road, Westerhope Village, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5 5HA.
Tel: 0191 286 9375
Email: janian@geordiebakers.co.uk
Craft bakery using traditional methods to produce quality bread, morning goods, savoury products and cakes.

Thorncroft Ltd
Durham lane Industrial Park, Eaglescliffe, Stockton, Teesside, TS16 0RB
Tel: 01642 791 792
Website: www.thorncroftdrinks.co.uk
Cordial makers from old recipes and often usuing fresh natural ingredients gathered from the wild, or from our own organic plantations. Buy online or from independent fine food stores.

Tree House Creamery
Trees House Farm, Brignall, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 9SG
Tel: 01833 638 034
Email: sjhare@farming.co.uk
Handmade yoghurt made on the farm with milk from our own dairy herd. All the flavours for the yoghurts are made on the farm with fruit sourced as locally as possible.

Wallington Farm Shop 
Scots' Gap, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 4AR 
Tel: 01670 773 619
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk 
National Trust farm shop selling a wide range of regional produce, includign award-winning beef and lamb reared on the Wallington estate. Open seven days a week March-October 10.30am-5pm and November-February 10.30am-4pm.

The Weardale Organic Soup Company
Elm Cottage, Westgate-in-Weardale, Bishop Auckland, DL13 1LP
Tel: 01388 517 384
Email: weardalesoup@aol.com
Artisan producer of organic, seasonal and locally produced food. Soups, quiches and bakery range all licensed Gluten-free. Available direct from Elm Cottage, by post, free delivery on orders over £50.00.

Whalton Manor 
The Manor House, Whalton, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 3UT
Tel: 01670 775205  
Email: norton@whaltonmanor.fsnet.co.uk
Producer of locally grown grass-fed beef.

Wheelbirks Dairy Produce
Wheelbirks Farm, Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7HY
Tel: 01661 842 613
Email: enquiries@wheelbirks.co.uk
Website: www.wheelbirks.co.uk
Milk, cream and ice cream made from our own pedigree herd of Jersey cows. Soon to open our own on site ice cream parlour. Produce sold through Wheelbirks Farm or from a number of outlets across the North East including Deli at Darras, Darras Hall; Corbridge Larder; Alnwick Gardens; Herb Patch, Ebchester; Mickley Maize Maze; Bobby's Shop, Riding Mill.

Wilson Brothers 
Ingram Farm, Powburn, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 4LT  
Tel: 01665 578940  
Email: sarah@ingramfarm.co.uk 
Website: www.ingramvalleylamb.co.uk
Award-winning Ingram Valley Blackface lamb has put the Wilsons on the national map with many requests to stock Northumberland Blackface lamb from the UK's leading supermarkets in 2008. The lamb can be found in Stewart and Co, Jesmond, The Market Place Butcher, Alnwick and Johnsons Butchers in Wooler. We also take phone orders.

Yellow Fields 
Selby House Farm, Stanton, Northumberland, NE65 8PR 
Tel: 01670 772 235 
Email: rapeseed@btinternet.com 
Website: www.rapeseedoil.co.uk 
Cold pressed rapeseed oil ideal for dressings, roasting or baking, or with its high smoke point it is great for a sizzling stir fry. Available from specialist food shops and delicatessens.