Farmers and Cheesemakers
The South West Cheese Awards at the Mid Somerset Show provided us with a fantastic set of results!
As well as achieving Gold for 3 of our cheeses – Farmhouse Mature, Farmhouse Extra Mature and Farmhouse Vintage – we were also awarded the Stan Ash Memorial Cup as overall winners of the Farmhouse Cheddar classes.
We are incredibly pleased with these results, and are hopeful that we can continue this in to the upcoming shows.
Food for Life Served Here is a widely respected scheme, recognised by the Department of Health, Department for Education, and the Government’s Plan for Public Procurement, that is raising the standards of food quality, provenance, and environmental sustainability in public and private sector catering.
We are now part of the Food for Life Supplier Scheme. We’re proud of our commitment to local food.
To find out more about our products that can now be supplied under the scheme, please contact a member of our local wholesale team.
Third show of the year and our third prize! We have been lucky enough to win a bronze award for our PDO Farmhouse Mature Cheddar. This is the second award for our PDO Cheddar this year already and hopefully not the last!
The Lye Cross Farm Bus Café has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence by Tripadvisor.
This is a fantastic achievement, earned by consistently receiving great reviews from customers.
Well done Dan and Dominic for all your hard work!!!
If you have visited our Bus Café and would like to leave a review, please click here.
Lye Cross Farm are able to add another award to our early season success, this time from the British Cheese Awards held at the Royal Bath and West. From the hundreds of cheeses entered we were selected by the judges to have won Bronze for our PDO Farmhouse Mature Cheddar. PDO stands for Protected Designation of Origin, and our cheese carries this status because it is traditionally manufactured from start to finish in the West Country.
The award season for 2017 has begun, and here at Lye Cross Farm we are off to a great start! We have achieved a 3rd place with our delicious Organic Mature Cheddar. Hopefully this is the start of another successful year!
Earlier this month we were fortunate to be included in a wine, meat and cheese tasting event hosted by Jill Morris, HM ambassador in Rome. Amongst other guests were HM The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.
The event was designed to promote PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) and PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) food produced here in the West Country. Our Cheddar Cheese holds PDO status and it was an honour for us to be included.
For more information, please read this ADHB press release.
Lye Cross Farm are exhibiting at Biofach this week! For the fifth consecutive year, members of the Lye Cross Farm export team are in Germany ready to talk all things organic with customers old and new. Come and visit us in Hall 4, Stand 337 for some cheese and a chat!
We are also using this opportunity to launch our new look website, which has had a complete overhaul, as has our trade stand. Hopefully our brand new, eye-catching look generates plenty of interest!
Every year at Lye Cross Farm our cheese is carefully selected and entered into competitions up and down the country. 2016 was no different, and we were able to achieve a grand total of 19 awards from 7 different competitions, including the British Cheese Awards and the International Cheese Awards. The full results are:
Hopefully in 2017 we are able to match this success and continue to add to our tally of awards!
Final competition of the year, and another award to add to our collection!
Full Results:
Farmhouse Extra Mature Cheddar – Silver
