Bed & Breakfast at Dowfold House

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Rules for supplies to Dowfold house

• We HATE Food Miles with a passion 
• We LOVE local, good quality produce, especially if it's organic
• We grow our own where possible
• We go FIRST for quality, then for local, then for organic, then for Fair Trade (Only for non-local stuff, obviously)

And here's where we buy locally

Brian and Sheila Hodgson at Aldin Grange Farm Shop at Bearpark supply all our (often HUGE) eggs and the splendid bacon.  And, yes, if you want you can meet the hens and admire the pigs that are working so hard for us!  Their beef and lamb is also magnificent, even if we don't serve it for breakfast.

And here's Brian getting that splendid bacon out...

By the way, it's also a GREAT place to go fishing. 

We love the Saddleback sausages from Broom House Farm in Witton Gilbert (pronounced Jilbert).  They farm organically, and it makes a pleasant day out to go and see the farm and the animals in their first-class surroundings.  Mark and Jane Gray are developing the place as a centre of education and development, and have NOT forgotten to put in an excellent café to boot!

We shop as much as we can in Crook - avoiding those Food Miles, you know -  and A B Fruiterers look after us very well when it comes to breakfast tomatoes and mushrooms, as well as good quality fruit for the fruit salads and fruit bowls.  We keep trying to grow our own but, somehow, their season lasts longer than ours, and it's all good stuff.

We've completely failed at growing our own tea & coffee (truth to tell, we haven't even tried), and, instead, rely on Ringtons of Newcastle to supply us with the best tea and coffee that we've tried. The Ringtons story began in Newcastle in 1907 when founder Sam Smith began trading in tea, and delivering to customers’ homes via horse and cart. Over the last 99 years the business has continued to grow via this traditional distribution method and today serves 400,000 customers. Throughout this time the business has flourished through a focus on quality and service, and these values are central to everything that Ringtons do. 

note: we do our best to use local, organic produce, but they are, as they have to be, subject to availability.  We will, however, ALWAYS use top quality  substitutes

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