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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Food & Farming Awards 2022 Finalists

Here's who's on the shortlist for the 2022 Awards. Our judges are now in the process of visiting each one to decide on the winner.

The finalists for the Morning Live Community Food Champion Award, Countryfile Young Countryside Champion Award, The Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Cymru Wales Food Hero Award will be announced later in the year.

Best Food Producer

Ardgay Game (Sutherland)
Established in 1982, the family owned business supplies Scottish wild venison which is collected from 130 sporting estates across the North Highlands and processed at their factory.

The Edinburgh Butter Co
The company produce cured butter made with traditional methods to create deep, rich flavours. Their products are used in hospitality, catering and deli shops as well as by artisanal bakers.

Tablehurst Farm
A social enterprise founded in the mid-1990s. The farm produces meat, poultry, vegetables, raw milk and arable crops to biodynamic and organic standards.

Best Drinks Producer

Little Pomona (Herefordshire)
Little Pomona produce ciders and perries and other fermented beverages reflecting the the land the fruit is grown in and the heritage Herefordshire is built on while also looking to the future.

Summerdown (Hampshire)
Summerdown produce tea from Black Mitcham peppermint they have been growing for almost three decades, all from a family farm in the Hampshire countryside.

Sugrue South Downs (Sussex)
Winemaker Dermot Sugrue planted at Storrington Priory, a small vineyard at the foot of the South Downs in 2006. He now makes some of the UK's most acclaimed sparkling wines.

Best Shop or Market

Mini Miss Bread (Saffron Walden, Essex)
A bakery producing small batch, artisan sourdough, pastries and cakes and using their own field of heritage wheat grain grown and milled on their behalf, just half an hour away from Saffron Walden.

Locavore (central Scotland)
a social enterprise working across central Scotland to help build a more sustainable local food system by providing local, organic grocery shops and veg box deliveries, using food from their land, local growers and ethical producers.

EMS (Hull)
EMS (Environmental & Management Solutions) is a charity working with residents, community groups and local businesses to alleviate food and fuel poverty through providing community allotments, a shop turning surplus produce from supermarkets into affordable food for residents and cooking on a budget sessions.

Best Streetfood/Takeaway

Pabellon (London)
Pabellon is a family vendor owned by Helios and Karla Gala, who decided to share generations of family recipes and Venezuelan flavours with the people.

The Snack Shack At Dungeness Fish Hut (Kent)
Freshly cooked fish caught on their own boats. Their ethos is to sell fresh, local fish in a tasty unpretentious manner with a strong emphasis on sustainability and traceability.

Celtic Cabin (Barmouth, West Wales)
Celtic Cabin strive to serve fresh and healthy street food wraps along with many other goodies for the beach.

Food Innovation

NIAB (Cambridge)
NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany)is a plant science research company looking at the challenges of food security, climate change and sustainable development while providing research and on-farm advice to growers and the industry – and are developing a wheat breeding programme.

TastEd
A charity bringing sensory food education to the UK. They provide free lesson plans and training for teachers to deliver a playful, evidence-based approach to food education.

East Lancashire Hospital Trust & Forestry England
The Trust are working with Forestry England on a wild venison partnership. Since March 2021, Forestry England have been supplying East Lancashire Hospital Trust (ELHT) with local venison from forests and woodlands in south Cumbria and North Lancashire and in the first year of the partnership supplied 1,000kg of diced venison used in delicious, nutritious meals for patients and staff.

The Farming Today Farming for the Future Award

Jake Freestone, Overbury Farms
Jake is the Farm Manger at Overbury Farms where they have been using a regenerative farming system since 2013 using no till, cover crops and livestock tor reduce artificial fertiliser use.

Wakelyns Farm, Suffolk
Early adopters of agroforestry they also 'enterprise stack,' inviting complementary small businesses to work on the farm growing, creating products with the produce and attracting visitors.

Griffith Eggs, Shropshire
Griffiths are implementing much higher welfare standards into their large scale egg production using a new multi -tiered rearing facility where the hens can actively move around.