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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 - tomatoes, herbs, summer berries, apples,
pears, plums - we've even got a lemon tree and are starting on our own grapes!
- We go FIRST for quality, then for local, then for organic, then for Fair
Trade (Only for non-local stuff, obviously)
And here's wh ere 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 Gold Pork sausages that we use. 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.
By the way, it's also a GREAT place to go fishing.
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.
Now that we bake our own bread, it was important to us to find real local
flour to use - and we've found a couple of crackers! We're using
Gilchesters Botanics'
Stoneground Organic Unbleached Strong White Flour, grown in the UK and milled in
Stamfordham, Northumberland, and
Heatherslaw's Strong Plain Stoneground Wholemeal Wheat Flour, grown and
milled at Cornhill-on Tweed in a real working water mill.. Phew! just
reading the names is a meal in itself! The bread, however is lovely
- fragrant, aromatic and not too sweet or too salty.
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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