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October has to be our most fragrant month, with nutty celeriac, creamy salsify redolent of oysters, honeyed quince and earthy mushrooms just some of the aromatic gems jostling for our attention. As October heralds the start of the wild...

Sometimes dinner feels like an endless series of repeats, with old favourites turning up again and again (just like Friends on TV). I've spent my whole career working with food and even I sometimes feel uninspired when I open the fridge door...

Pies, pastries, crumbles and cobblers; for me the sweet aroma of home baking epitomises autumn as much as the crunch of fallen leaves, and with fruit bushes heavy with luscious blackberries and autumn raspberries, and with the first chestnuts and...

Fresh, fresh, fresh - that's my mantra for late Summer! I love the changing seasons but these two months are really special because everywhere is bursting with produce and late summer morsels rubbing shoulders with the first fruits of autumn. It's...

Britain has a strong and proud tradition of cheese making, though our continental friends across the water haven't always agreed. Then along came Nick Park and his creations Wallace and Gromit who in Curse of the Were Rabbit, favoured a...

At this time of year we are spoilt for choice with an abundance of fresh produce and the broad bean is what I call a "marmite" vegetable, it's loved or not so loved. If you're your taste buds lie on the side of not liking this vegetable I ask you to...

Yorkshire's foremost foodie and broadcaster (and Farmison's new guest blogger), Annie Stirk, gives her five rules for gorgeous gourmet grilling this summer This blooming lovely weather has meant one thing for our family:...

Here at Farmison & Co we're often asked if we're so keen to preserve native breed livestock, why are we selling their meat? It's precisely because we don't eat enough of native and rare breed meat that these glorious animals are dwindling...

It's all hotting up at Farmison & Co: literally and metaphorically! Flush from our success at the Grocer Gold awards, we've been working hard to get the shop ready for Summer, with all the salads, different meat cuts, and recipes you need to be...

It's not often you hear someone raving about the taste of vegetables; usually it's meat that receives all the praise. Of course here at Farmison & Co we're pretty proud of the taste of our rare and native breed meat, but that's not to say we...