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We're looking forward to hosting a quiz on 30th May in aid of St. Catherine’s Hospice, our charity of the year. Events coordinator, Sam Smith explained the rationale for the event: “We love a quiz night here at Wold Top, and we also love supporting great local charities that are close to our heart, so we’re combining the two with a charity quiz night. “The team at St. Catherine’s Hospice does amazing work supporting people with cancer and other long-term illnesses across the Yorkshire Coast. They also cared for our founder, Gill, in the last few weeks of her life,...

We're pleased to share the news that our MD Kate has been invited to contribute to a panel session at a sustainable farming event next month. Kate will join the Food Production panel at the Farmers Weekly Transition Live event at the University of Leeds Farm on 8th May. The event aims to help farmers secure sustainable futures for their farms and brings together farmers, policymakers and key industry experts for a day of knowledge-exchange, collaboration and networking. It is a mixture of short TED-style talks and in-depth panel discussions focusing on three key topic areas: Food production, Environment and...

Here at Hunmanby Grange Farm, the home of Wold Top, we are currently under way with one of the most important parts of our farming year – spring drilling.  There are two types of crop plantings available to farmers: winter and spring. Winter barley and winter wheat varieties are sown shortly after harvest, late September through October, whilst spring barley and spring wheat are sown as the weather turns warmer and more ‘springlike’. This can be anywhere from late February to late March/early April. For spring planting we look for soil temperatures to be around 6C and rising to enable...

Indie Beer Week is a new UK-wide beer week that has been launched by independent beer campaigners to celebrate and promote independent beer, pubs and people with a series of events nationwide. It runs from the 11th to the 20th  of April.   Neil Walker, Indie Beer / SIBA said: “Indie Beer Week is a national celebration of great independent beer and a chance for our superb pubs and breweries to attract new customers, or give regulars a great new beer experience by running special events, beer festivals, tap takeovers, meet the brewer evenings or tasting experiences which celebrate local...

We’ve been really lucky over the last 20+ years to be able to collaborate and work with some amazing people and companies. The most relevant to this month is of course EATYORKSHIRE, the wonderful initiative started by Jennie, Marcelle and team at Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil which brings together a wide variety of food and drink businesses across Yorkshire during the month of March to encourage and promote local food, local drink and buying local.  Check out the info further down in the newsletter for more details about this campaign and how to enjoy it!  Did you know that our beer also features in...