Great news from the International Cheese Awards at
Nantwich this year! We are pleased to share that we have won two awards at this year’s show – Silver for our Farmhouse Vintage Cheddar and Bronze for our Mild Cheddar.

Despite the wet weather and the unfortunate circumstances that led to most of the show being cancelled, we had a great day talking to those that braved the rain! We made the most of this opportunity to talk to the show visitors about our Mild Mini Cheddar Sticks and our Certified 100% Grass-Fed Cheddar, both of which received a fantastic reception!

We are pleased to share the news that John Alvis has been awarded the National Agricultural Award by the Royal Agricultural Society of England. John received this award in recognition of his contribution to the advancement of agriculture in the UK.

Congratulations John! We are all extremely proud of your achievement!

Here at Lye Cross Farm we are really happy to share the news that we have had a fantastic start to our 2019 awards season.

At this year’s British Cheese Awards at the Bath & West we collected a total of four awards, 1 Silver and 3 bronze, and even a prize for our brand new product Lye Cross Farm Mild Mini Cheddar Sticks!

Fingers crossed that we can carry our success through the rest of the year and continue to collect awards!

Full Results

Organic Mature Cheddar – Silver

Vintage Cheddar – Bronze

West Country Farmhouse Mature Cheddar PDO – Bronze

Mild Mini Cheddar Sticks – Bronze

We are pleased to introduce our newest product … Lye Cross Farm Mild  Mini Cheddar Sticks.

Typically aged for 3-6 months, our handcrafted Mild Cheddar Cheese has a mellow flavour and smooth creamy texture.

Our 20g portions are individually wrapped for your convenience, and are perfect for lunchboxes and snacking.

Lye Cross Farm are proud to announce the launch of our new cheese – Certified 100% Grass-Fed Organic Sharp Cheddar.

Handcrafted using the same traditional techniques as other Lye Cross Farm cheeses, this Cheddar is produced using organic milk from certified 100% grass-fed cows. The Cheddar has a rich buttery flavour and strong yellow colour, owing to the beta-carotene in the cows’ 100% grass diet.

In a first for the UK, the milk comes from cows that have been ‘certified grass-fed’ by A Greener World and are also ‘Animal Welfare approved’ (AGW), which means that their diet consists entirely of grass and forage, free from any artificial fertilisers and pesticides. The cattle are also free to roam on natural pasture land and lead peaceful, happy lives and often in family groups. They require very little veterinary attention, are not treated with antibiotics, and are rBST and rBGH free.

With the growing disconnect of consumers from the source of their food and the plethora of misleading labels, Lye Cross Farm found it essential to have third-party validation demonstrating their exceptional practices to a market hungry for truthful information about their food.

This product is certified by A Greener World and the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association.

Now available in our farm shop.

“The team at Lye Cross Farm are proud to sit at the cutting edge of a long family tradition bringing fantastic cheeses to ever-more-knowledgeable eaters. We have known for generations that treating our animals and land well is crucial to the end product. While the quality of our cheese speaks for itself, we believe that when you make a claim, it should really mean something. That ethos led us to have our practices audited and certified, demonstrating that our cheeses are genuinely grass-fed, Organic and high-welfare. We are delighted to honour our customers’ expectation of transparency and sustainability.”
Ben Hutchins, Sales & Marketing Director

Lye Cross Farm have been named as one of the 2019 DIT Export Champions for the South West. We are now one of a community of Export Champions and our aim is encourage other companies to develop their international sales via peer-to-peer learning. This is an excellent opportunity for us and we look forward to being able to share our knowledge and expertise with those that will benefit from it most.

We are pleased to share that we are proud recipients of a Board of Trade Award from Liam Fox last night in London. The judging panel were impressed by the way that we are championing exporting and engaging with local initiatives in the West Country, amongst other things. Our MD, Peter Alvis, was on hand to collect the award and was quick to thank everyone back at Lye Cross Farm for their efforts in making this possible.

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We are pleased to share that we have won 3 awards at this year’s World Cheese Awards held in Bergen, Norway.  We were awarded Bronze for both our Mild Cheddar and our Mature Farmhouse Cheddar, and Silver for our Vintage Farmhouse Cheddar.

This is another great set of results, and a fantastic end to this year’s competitions.

This year at the Global Cheese Awards, we received the grand total of 7 awards – a fantastic set of results, with which we are extremely pleased!

This included a Gold award for our Farmhouse Vintage Cheddar, as well as 4 silver and 2 bronze awards. Our full results are as below:

• Farmhouse Vintage Cheddar – Gold
• Farmhouse Mature Cheddar – Silver
• Farmhouse Extra Mature Cheddar – Silver
• Organic Mature Cheddar – Silver
• Lye Cross Farm West Country Farmhouse Butter – Silver
• Mild Cheddar – Bronze
• Extra Mature Cheddar – Bronze