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Wyreside Products Ltd

This is a business which has primarily sold additives for pets and livestock. It has recently ventured into the health food supplement market.

Telephone: 01253 790462

Alston Dairy

This business was set up in 1984 and produces yogurts in the on-farm purpose built factory. The yogurts come in a variety of flavours and are all made using milk from the family run farm.

Telephone:01772 782621 www.alstondairy.co.uk

Rose County Foods

Rose County Foods is a major abattoir slaughtering and boning beef and sheep for the mainstream food chain including leading supermarkets and major contract buyers.

Telephone: 01200 515000 www.rosecounty.co.uk

Farmhouse Fare

This business makes desserts mainly traditional recipe sponge puddings. It sells through supermarkets as well as independent stores under the Farmhouse Fare brand.

Telephone: 01200 453110 www.farmhousefare.co.uk

North West Fine Foods

NW Fine Foods is the organisation charged with the promotion of regional food.

Telephone: 01695 732734 www.nwff.co.uk

Hodder Valley Organics

This is an upland dairy and sheep farm which converted to organic status a number of years ago. In order to diversify the farm it also created a self catering holiday cottage using redundant farm buildings. The business sells seasonal organic lamb and milk.

Telephone: 01200 446412

Lancashire Cheesemakers Association

The Lancashire Cheesemakers Association was first formed in 1941 to address the problem in wartime of the shortage of liquid milk for cheese production. The association has recently re-formed and has agreed to work together on joint promotional initiative to promote Lancashire Cheese in its three forms Creamy, Crumbly and Tasty.

Telephone: 01772 750222

Works with Water

Works with water has created a range of flavoured water products which offer added health benefits (nutraceuticals).

Telephone: 01200 441003

Food By Breda Murphy

Fully licenced Café Bar, Restaurant, Delicatessen, Offsite Catering and Cookery School. Open 10am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday. Food from 10am – 4.30pm with special lunch time menu from 12 noon – 2pm. Enquire for evening dining days and times. 45 covers and available for private functions. Irish, South East Asian and classic British, authentic dishes created with a modern twist and healthier lifestyle in mind. Vegetarian food available.

Tel. 01254 823446 or Fax. 01200 442257 www.foodbybredamurphy.com

Heywood’s Butchers

This is a small scale abattoir and in order to manage the waste in an environmental sound manner a small scale incinerator has been installed.  

Telephone: 01254 822500

Leagram Organic Dairy

This is a small dairy making organic cheese from locally source milk. They sell through small independent retailers; shows and farmers markets and they also have a small contract with Booths for their Organic Lancashire cheese. 

Telephone: 01995 61532 www.cheese-experience.com

Farmhouse Direct

David & Jacqui Kitson began taking meat from their own Highland cattle and sheep direct to market during 2000. They have recently been accepted onto the London Borough Market, becoming the first Lancashire supplier to have a stall on this prestige market.

Telephone: 01995 61799 www.farmhousedirect.com

Bowland Outdoor Reared Pork

This is a farm based on Tatham Fells, within the LEADER+ area, which sells meat from its own pigs and locally sourced beef and lamb, directly to end users.

In addition there is a hog roast business which sells the complete cooked pig through a wide range of public events from shows to weddings.

Telephone: 01524 263031 www.bowlandpork.co.uk

Growing with Nature

This multiple award winning business has been at the forefront of the Organic movement and driving change in agricultural provenance and delivery for many years. Established as a partnership in 1991 as the second UK boxed/bagged delivery service for organic vegetables, it is now a limited company and the longest running boxed scheme in the UK.

Telephone: 01253 790046

Holwood Cheese

Hallidays Farm is a tenanted dairy on the Duchy Estates milking 70 cows. In 2000 they began to add value to their milk by making cheese.

Telephone: 01995 642802

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