It’s All About Food at Blacker Hall Farm

....and not just any food; it’s local, award-winning and made by a team of

people dedicated to quality and tradition.The Garthwaite family’s enterprise

is an extension of the family farm where they have been rearing livestock in

the Calder Grove area of Wakefield for generations.Just off Denby Dale Road, on the outskirts of Wakefield,

Blacker Hall Farm Shop is a bustling hive of activity. After a 12 month

renovation and building project the Farm Shop, in it’s 12th year, is now

partnered with a Coffee Shop and Restaurant and a new state-of-the-art food

production unit. This is where they make the mouth-watering array of fresh

food including bread, cakes, quiches, sausages, burgers, gammon, soup,

dry cured bacon, and the list goes on....

Wakefield Civic society have awarded Blacker Hall Farm Shop ‘Best

Renovation 2011’ for their sympathetic and stylish restoration of the 400

year old barn, now the Restaurant.

Local

You may assume that this Farm Shop is simply another average independant

food retailer sticking their label on mass produced foods with no real

authenticity....how wrong you are

Everything with the Blacker Hall insignia is

produced or prepared on site, or sourced from the family farm or other local

farms rearing animals to the same high standards. It’s not only the meat that

is reared locally, flour in the cakes is milled in Yorkshire and the free range

eggs are from Selby. That means that 90% of sales are generated from truly

local foods.

We have in excess of forty individual awards and championship titles for our produce including our21 day Matured Sirloin Steaks, Pork, Sausages, Dry Cured and Smoked Bacon, Gammon, Meatballs, fruit crumbles, biscuits, soups, ready meals and much more…

Our farming headquarters is located 1 mile away, at Broad Cut Farm, next to Jct.39 of the M1. Our pigs are reared here on a nutritionally balanced diet ensuring that the meat is tender, sweet and with buttery fat. The fields surrounding the Farm Shop are grazed by our cattle and sheep throughout the year.

The other fields yield the crops, which are fed to our livestock during the winter months, forming a part of their nutritionally balanced diet. This enables us to provide consistency in the quality and flavour of the meat you buy from our Butchery.

Local Suppliers

We work closely with local producers, growers and suppliers to ensure that we prioritize local food and ingredients in our homemade produce. We only use local free-range eggs and flour from Yorkshire mills in our baking. Our local growers ensure that we have a good supply of seasonal fruit and vegetables, so you always get the freshest produce.

Expertise

We win awards for our produce because we have a dedicated team of people who are passionate about food. Their expertise ensures that there is always someone available to offer advice, product information and serving suggestions.

The Q Guild of Butchers is a unique organisation comprising the UK’s leading butchers. Every butchery is independently audited by EFSIS to ensure that the highest standards are achieved in both quality and hygiene. Locally sourcing of the meat is a priority, and you can always be assured that where the ‘Q’ is displayed.

Events

Demonstration evenings, wine and ale tasting events and private functions are a few of the unique facilities we can offer. The Barn Coffee Shop and Restaurant may be booked as a venue for evening functions, group bookings as well as offering catered meeting facilities and packages.

Our Head Chef, Mark Duce, has recently joined us from spending eight years at the helm of the highly rated Cow Shed Restaurant in Wakefield.

Open 7 Days

Open every day except the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.

Evening dining on Friday and Saturdays from 7.30pm

Private functions

Meeting facilities

Group bookings