Blacker Hall Farm Shop, West Yorkshire

Posted on: Sep 28 2012

Since being established in 1999, Blacker Hall Farm Shop has built an outstanding reputation for selling locally sourced, superior quality produce. The shop is owned by the Garthwaite family who run a local farming enterprise which supplies the majority of the beef, lamb and pork for the farm shop.

The butchery department is renowned for its superior produce, skilled butchers and traditional butchery methods. This has been recognised with a number of awards:

• Great Taste Awards for their pork, bacon, beef sirloin, rack of lamb, sausage roll and ox tongue
• Best Roast Beef in England (EBLEX George Awards)
• FARMA award’s Best On-Farm Butchery 2011
• Runner up in the FARMA Farm Retailer of the Year 2011

The butchers make all their own sausages, dry cured and smoked bacon, burgers and ready-to-cook products to award-winning recipes. The farm shop also contains a bakery stocked with freshly made products including bread, fruit scones and cakes. The bakery team make everything from scratch and many of the products are sold in Blackerhall Farm’s Barn Coffee Shop. Their delicatessen also offers a huge selection of freshly made produce, including seven varieties of quiche, pies and pastries, sandwiches using their own bakery bread, home cooked meats, charcuterie, cheeses and antipasti.

Branch Road
Calder Grove
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF4 3DN
Phone: 01924 267202
Website: www.blackerhall.com
Twitter: @BlackerHallFarm
Facebook: BlackerHallFarm

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Tom Parker Bowles

Tom is a food writer and broadcaster with a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday and is Food Editor at Esquire magazine.
His books include E Is For Eating – An Alphabet of Greed, The Year of Eating Dangerously and Full English; A Journey Through the British and Their Food. He also co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel and presented LBC Radio's Food and Drink Programme.

The steady loss of our local butchers is cause for serious alarm. Just 2 months back my favourite butcher, Kingsland and Son, fell victim to a fierce rent hike and was forced to move out. The whole area is still reeling from the loss. Because butchery is both art and science. Not just in the physical act of separating different cuts from a carcass, but the wealth of knowledge any serious butcher has; where the meat comes from, how long the beef was hung, what cuts are better suited to braising than roasting. Support your local butchers. For the sake of the community, and your taste buds too.

Jay Rayner

The award winning Observer Food Critic and One show journalist.

Jay currently chairs the new Radio 4 food panel show, The Kitchen Cabinet, having recently appeared as judge on Masterchef and The Great British Waste Menu, and hosted Channel 4's magazine show Food: What Goes in your Basket?

Now, more than ever, we need to know where our meat is coming from, and your local butcher is best placed to give you that vital information. There is no substitute for buying your meat from the people who sourced it. They are the ones who know how it was raised, how it was slaughtered and how best to cook it. If we lose our local butchers we lose an irreplaceable part of the food chain.

Rosemary Shrager

Rosemary Shrager, talented TV chef and cookery school teacher, is renowned for her role on reality TV show, Ladette to Lady. Rosemary has worked for Pierre Koffman at the famous Tante Claire restaurant in London and also for super chef Jean-Christophe Novelli.

Rosemary’s TV career began with series Rosemary – Castle Cook, followed by Rosemary on the Road, both for Channel 5. She is now a familiar face on ITV, following up her Rosemary Shrager's School For Cooks series with regular appearances on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

It is so important to support butchers, if we do not then they will go and then we really will miss them. These people know where all their food has come from, generally sourcing everything from the local area’s farmers. Support for your butcher is support for the wider farming community.

Joanna Blythman

Joanna Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist and an influential commentator on the British food chain. She has won four Glenfiddich awards for her writing, including a Glenfiddich Special Award for her first book, The Food We Eat, a Caroline Walker Media Award for Improving the Nation’s Health by Means of Good Food, and a Guild of Food Writers Award for The Food We Eat.