Looking After
How we work to look after the National Park, conservation, ranger services, biodiversity and policies.
- The work of the Authority
How we make decisions, the role of Members and staff. - Current consultations
We want your opinions on these consultations - Ranger service
What our rangers and volunteers do around the National Park. - Plans & policies
Corporate plans and policies
Food with the environment in mind
Try lamb grazed on limestone dales. Enjoy beef from cattle grazing hay meadows rich in species such as oxeye daisy, hay rattle and providing breeding and feeding habitat for skylark, brown hare and butterflies. Look for ice cream, butter, cheese, cream and milk from dairy farms which manage their field edges, woodlands and streams to benefit wildlife. Discover honey made by the bees that thrive on the local wildflowers and heather.
Feel free to ask these producers and farmers how they make a special contribution to the Peak District environment – they will be happy to tell you!
The Peak District Environmental Quality Mark
has been
achieved by each of these businesses for their local produce and for their demonstrated commitment to
conserving the Peak District environment.
Ashes Farm, Derwent, Bamford, Hope Valley S33 0AQ
Tel: 01433 651780
Mobile: 07713 756 000
Email: kath@kathbirkinshaw.co.uk
Contact: Andrea Jolley & Kath Birkinshaw
Grid ref: SK188888
Winners of the David Arnold-Forster Trust Hill Farming Award 2006. Moorland fringe hay meadows are maintained on the farm providing a valuable habitat for wildlife. Kath is available to give illustrated talks about hill farming and the importance of conservation work – phone for more details.
Kinder, Hayfield, High Peak SK22 2LL
Tel: 01663 743913
Mobile: 07767 443868
Contact: Mike Salisbury
Grid ref: SK053867
Traditional working hill farm lying under the southern slopes of Kinder Scout. Long-standing suppliers of lamb and beef to family butcher, J.W. Mettrick & Son Ltd in Glossop.
Available: J.W. Mettrick & Son Ltd, 20 High Street, Glossop, SK13 8BH, Tel: 01457 852239.
Reapsmoor, Longnor SK17 0NA
Tel: 01298 83422
Contact: Neil Richardson
Grid ref: SK068611
Excellent site for upland wader birds such as lapwing, curlew and snipe, which are attracted by traditional hay meadows, scrapes (small ponds) and stubble turnips. Traditional breeds of livestock kept, including pedigree Belted Galloway cattle. Beef, lamb, mutton and pork from the farm available seasonally. Also haylage for sale as quality horse feed.
Available: From the farm gate. Please ring beforehand. Leave a message if we are out on the farm and we will ring you back.
Barnside Farm, Midhopestones, Sheffield, S36 4GZ
Mobile: 07774 657710
Contact: Michael Wynne
Grid ref: SK240960
Broomhead is a traditional moorland estate in the Dark Peak. White House Farm is a family farm at Padfield near Glossop. Both farmed by Michael Wynne, who supplies lamb and beef to J W Mettrick & Son Ltd family butchers in Glossop.
Available: J.W. Mettrick & Son Ltd, 20 High Street, Glossop, SK13 8BH, Tel: 01457 852239.
Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire S32 4TN
Tel: 01433 630400
Mobile: 07812 847363
Contact: James Hancock
Grid ref: SK231755
Home produced beef & lamb from nearby Castlegate Farm, cooked meats, pies, pasties, bread, sausage, prize-winning black pudding.
Open: Mon 09.00-12.30, Tues to Fri 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-17.00, Sat 08.30-12.30.
Church Lane, Great Longstone, Derbyshire DE45 1TB
Tel: 01629 640673
Mobile: 07971 104912
Contact: Roger Cox
Grid ref: SK200718
Dairy and beef farm with a small retail outlet selling own milk. Prizewinning pedigree Charolais cattle. Special features include wildflowers and hay meadows, drystone walls, old lead rakes and limestone dale with fossils. Our dewponds have the highest recorded population numbers of great crested newts in the area. Free farm walks by appointment.
Mam Farm, Castleton, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S33 8WA
Tel: 01433 621334
Mob: 07791 272285
Web: www.cocoadance.com
Email: info@cocoadance.com
Contacts: David Golubows and Bridget Joyce
Grid ref: SK133840
Award-winning chocolate producers who live and work from a National Trust property. In 2005 we converted a disused barn into a chocolate workshop, where we take small groups on our award-winning chocolate experience. We try and incorporate Peak Park-produced, home-grown and foraged ingredients as much as possible into our recipes. Our produce is available nationally as well as locally, and can also be purchased online. Our 'chocolate experience' takes place throughout the year. Please check our website for available dates and times.
Calver Road, Baslow, Derbyshire DE45 1RR
Tel: 01246 583259
Web: www.fischers-baslowhall.co.uk
Email: reservations@fischers-baslowhall.co.uk
Grid ref: SK250728
Elegant Derbyshire manor house on the edge of the magnificent Chatsworth Estate. The heart of this home is its Michelin-starred dining room offering modern European dishes. Ingredients are carefully and seasonally sourced. Staff are environmentally conscious and have made a concerted effort to substantially reduce the environmental impact of the business.
Open: Lunch (Tues to Sat) 12.00-13.30. Dinner: (Mon to Sat) 19.00-20.30. Residents only Sunday evening.
Grindlow, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8RJ
Tel: 01298 872171
Contact: Valerie & Peter Sellers
Grid ref: SK183774
Hall Farm is managed without artificial fertilisers and herbicides. The farm boasts some of the best wildflower meadows in the Peak District National Park, as well as offering breeding and feeding habitats for species including curlew, snipe, brown hare, skylark and pipstrelle bat. Beef and lamb sold to a small number of private customers.
Available: From the farm gate. Please ring beforehand.
Monks Road, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 6JZ
Tel: 01457 861443
Mobile: 07989 242619
Contact: Sally Hodgson
Grid ref: SK022914
We are hill farmers producing home bred beef and lamb, and we supply J.W. Mettrick & Son Ltd, an award winning traditional family butchers located less than 5 miles from our farm gate. We farm in an environmentally sensitive way and are interested in a quality product.
Available: J.W. Mettrick & Son Ltd, 20 High Street, Glossop, SK13 8BH, Tel: 01457 852239.
Blaze Farm, Wildboarclough, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 0BL
Tel: 01260 227229
Web: www.blazefarm.com
Email: katy@blazefarm.com
Contact: Marshall and Katy Waller
Grid ref: SJ975675
Home-made ice cream parlour & tea room set on a working hill farm in the Peak District National Park. Farm nature trail and quiz.
Open: 7 days a week, 10.00-17.00.
Peak Forest, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 8EJ
Tel: 01298 23949
Contact: Bob Furness
Grid ref: SK116791
Working hill farm raising pedigree Limousin beef cattle and Texel sheep. The farm includes rare lead mining remains of archaeological and ecological interest (lead rakes). Meat available: J.W. Mettrick & Son Ltd, 20 High Street, Glossop, SK13 8BH, Tel: 01457 852239.
Watson’s Farm Shop, Leacroft, Edale Road, Hope, S33 6ZF
Tel: 01433 620223
Web: www.watsonsfarmshop.co.uk
Email: ann@watsons70.fsnet.co.uk
Contact: Ann Foxley or Robert Watson
Grid ref: SK172835 (farm shop)
Family owned and run farm of approximately 50 hectares (123 acres).
Lamb and beef are sold directly to the public through Watson’s Farm Shop in Hope. Speciality lamb and mint sausages use lamb from the slopes of Lose Hill.
Open: Tues to Sat 09.00-13.00; Wed to Fri 14.00-17.30.
Bradnop, Leek, Staffordshire ST13 7EZ
Tel/Fax: 01538 304494
Web: www.peakdistrictfarmshop.co.uk
Email: sales@peakdistrictfarmshop.co.uk
Contact: Janet & David Phillips
Grid ref: SK026531
Sustainably managed farm working with Grove Farm selling meat through Peak District Farm Shop. Keep rare and traditional breeds of livestock including pedigree Herdwick and Wensleydale sheep, Dexter and Welsh Black cattle and Tamworth and Gloucester Old Spot pigs.
Available: Meat and wool from the farm can be purchased from The Threshing Barn shop on site. Meat also available via www.peakdistrictfarmshop.co.uk
20-22 High Street West, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8BH
Tel: 01457 852239
Web: www.mettricksbutchers.co.uk
Email: john@mettricksbutchers.com
Contact: John Mettrick
Grid ref: SK032940
This family business has traded in Glossop for over 100 years. The family has strong relationships with local hill farmers that in some cases go back generations. Their High Peak Lamb brand only sources lamb from Peak District Environmental Quality Mark (EQM) farms.
Open: Mon to Fri 08.00-17.30, Sat 08.00-16.30.
Rowsley, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2NN
Tel: 01629 732371
Web: www.mistlehall-farm.co.uk
Email: contact@mistlehall-farm.co.uk
Grid ref: SK273661
Mistlehall Farm is a 40 acre free-range egg enterprise. The flock is 'Lion Code' and Freedom Foods accredited. They are springwater-fed and antibiotic-free. The moorland edge grazing is run on a chemical-free regime and the land is managed to accommodate rare moorland birds such as black grouse, winchat and merlin.
Available: Chatsworth Farm Shop, Jacksons the Bakers, The Original Farmers' Market Shop, New Close Farm, Ibbottsons of Ashford, Birchover Stores, Winster Shop, Beanies Wholefoods, Liberty Farm Foods, Highfields Farm Shop.
Trentabank Car Park & Picnic Site, Macclesfield Forest, Langley SK11 0NS
Tel: 01298 25930
Web: www.nice-nosh.co.uk
Email: johnsellors@btinternet.com
Contact: John Sellors
Grid ref: SJ 961711
Outdoor food and drinks kiosk. Home-made, freshly cooked Peak District recipes. Vegetarian, meat dishes and home-made cakes. Many unusual fair trade products. Recycling on site and biodegradable packaging used where possible. Catering for private parties Mon to Fri by arrangement at any location. Local walking and biking maps available, many of which are free.
Open: Weekends from 10.00 all year round.
3 Market Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1HG
Tel: 01629 815814
Web: www.thefarmersmarketshop.co.uk
Email: postmaster@thefarmersmarketshop.co.uk
Contact: Richard Young & Carolyn Fisher
Grid ref: SK219685
Large range of gluten-free products, home-made pies and preserves, exotic meats. New Derbyshire cheeses available and three-bird roasts, one of our specialities, are becoming very popular. Many more products, too numerous to mention.
Open: 7 days a week, Mon to Sat 09.00-17.00, Sun 10.00-16.00.
Ashbourne Lane, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire SK23 9UF
Tel: 01298 814650
Web: www.peakfarmfayre.co.uk
Email: paradise@peakfarmfayre.co.uk
Contact: Pete & Kath Cartwright
Grid ref: SK068795
We farm at over 1200ft on the edge of Combs Moss, using traditional, sustainable husbandry, practised before modern, intensive production. Dexter beef and Texel sheep are reared such as to allow natural behaviour patterns. Available from Buxton, Castleton and Marple Farmers' Markets or from the farm gate - please ring ahead.
Nether Rod Knowle Farm, Eastmoor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S42 7DB
Tel: 01246 566151
Mobile: 07890 433674
Web: www.farmhousepantry.co.uk
EMail: enquiries@farmhousepantry.co.uk
Contact: Richard Gill
Grid ref: SK304702
The Gills run a herd of water buffalo, and sell water buffalo steaks, burgers and sausages through their own farm shop and at a number of local Farmers’ Markets. Nether Rod Knowle Farm is one of the best sites in Derbyshire for lapwing and has been entered for RSPB’s 2007 Lapwing Champion award.
Beeley Hill Top, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2NW
Tel: 01629 735303
Web: www.peakchoice.co.uk
Email: info@peakchoice.co.uk
Contact: Rob Garrett
Grid ref: SK270684
The Peak District Farmers Co-operative, inspired by HRH Prince of Wales, are suppliers of the highest quality beef and lamb direct from small family farms within the Peak District. The Environmental Quality Mark recognises our values and commitment to supplying outstanding quality beef and lamb from sustainable sources that enhance the environment and maintain our unique social heritage.
Tel: 01332 883616
Mobile: 07946 415201
Web: www.peakdistrictfinefoods.co.uk
Email: rdennett@peakdistrictfinefoods.co.uk
Contact: Ruth Dennett
Local food delivery service. Food hampers also available. Buffets provided for all occasions. Range of EQM and Peak District Food Group products to choose from. Linked journeys and set delivery routes are used to help reduce food miles. For further information visit our website, telephone or email us.
3 The Pinfold, Middleton-by-Youlgreave, Derbyshire DE45 1LS
Tel: 01629 636730
Mobile: 07977 229614
Contact: Trevor Poole
Grid ref: SK193631
Rock Farm is a family-run sheep and beef farm that is managed to maintain and enhance the flower-rich pastures and meadows. It produces high-quality herb-rich hay and haylage in small or large bales especially for horses.
Church Lane, Baslow, Derbyshire DE45 1RY
Tel: 01246 583880
Web: www.rowleysrestaurant.co.uk
Email: info@rowleysrestaurant.co.uk
Contact: Alistair Myers & Kristie Kania
Grid ref: SK253723
Rowley's is an all day bar and restaurant. We serve locally brewed beers and cook with fresh regional produce. Rowley’s supports the Peak District by using local produce and skills, conserving energy and resources, and offering warm hospitality to visitors and locals alike. We are proud to receive the EQM in recognition of our policies.
Open: Daily from 11.00-23.00. Lunch: 12.00-14.30. Dinner: (Mon to Thur) 17.00-21.00, (Fri to Sat) 17.00-22.00. Closed Sunday evenings.
Hollinsclough, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 0RW
Tel: 01298 25494 Fax: 01298 25494
Web: via www.peakchoice.co.uk
Email: stoopfarm@aol.com
Contact: Karen Beresford
Grid ref: SK064681
Member of the Peak Choice farmers’ co-operative "delivering beef and lamb from the Peak District direct to your door" (www.peakchoice.co.uk). The farm contains numerous important archaeological features including Bronze Age barrows, limekilns and caves with potential for Pleistocene deposits.
Hathersage, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S32 1BQ
Tel: 01433 650659
Web: www.hope-valley.co.uk
Email: jane@hope-valley.co.uk
Contact: Jane & John Marsden
Grid ref: SK222823
An old established family-run dairy farm, producing home-made ice cream. Stroll on our footpaths while enjoying our ice cream and the wonderful views of the Hope Valley.
Available: Ring or check the website for opening hours or other retail outlets.
Commercial Road, Tideswell, Derbyshire SK17 8NU
Tel: 01298 871351
Email: tindallsoftideswell@hotmail.com
Contact: Carol Cox
Grid ref: SK153757
Tindalls take great efforts to reduce the waste they produce and help their customers do the same through the sale of ‘bags for life’. A wide range of local products are sold in the shop and fresh bread is baked on site daily.
Open: Mon to Fri 07.30-16.00, Sat 07.30-12.00.
5 Bridge Street, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6BS
Tel: 01298 22843
Web: www.wild-carrot.co.uk
Email: shop@wild-carrot.co.uk
Contact: Ann Evens, Cath Johnstone or any member of the co-op
Grid ref: SK063736
Organic foods, wine and beer, fruit and veg. Organic veg bags. EQM products on sale. Soil Association certified. Reuses/recycles packaging, composts organic waste, aims for energy and water efficiency.
Open: Mon to Sat 09.00 to 17.30, Thu 09.00-18.00.
Food and drink producers in and around the Peak District National Park have started a group called Peak
District Foods. Several members of Peak District Foods have achieved the Peak District Environmental
Quality Mark. To find out more about Peak District Foods visit their web site at www.peakdistrictfoods.co.uk
