Overdale Cottage, our Helmsley Hideaway is surrounded by farms and open countryside which means that fresh local produce is easy to find and source.
Yorkshire is well known for providing some of the finest local produce and food based gifts from the land. The region’s farm shops, markets and craft breweries offer a multitude of delights which include mature free range and grass-fed beef, venison and game, wonderful organic fruit and vegetables, fresh baked products, fresh fish, handcrafted beers to delightful hedgerow liqueurs such as sloe gin.
You can really live off the land here in North Yorkshire with a wealth of excellent local suppliers, food producers, farm shops, bakers, deli’s and butchers. They can all offer a wonderful range of fresh, organic products and home-made food using the locally sourced fresh local ingredients for everyone to enjoy when eating out or cooking in.
Regional Local Produce
Local Suppliers & Where to Buy All the Best Local Produce Include:
Beadlam Grange Farmshop
Family run butchery, bistro and deli on the outskirts of Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Home-bred award winning Limousin beef, local fresh meat, fruit and vegetables. Tempting display of very popular Yorkshire gins and liqueurs, beers, cider, wine and prosecco together with all the mixers and accompaniments.
Website: https://www.beadlamgrange.co.uk/
Address & Contact Details: Beadlam Grange Farmshop, Beadlam, York YO62 7TD
Wass Farm Shop – Free Range Produce
A small, rustic farm shop between Wass and Ampleforth. All our meat is free range and grass fed and produced here at Wass Grange. Wide selection of meat including goat, lamb, pork, beef, chicken, duck, wild venison and other wild game. Also sells free range hen, duck, goose eggs and local vegetables.
Website: https://wassfarmshop.co.uk
Address & Contact Details: Hollie Cottage, Wass, Grange, West End, Ampleforth, York YO62 4ED – Tel: 07779 340799
Hunters of Helmsley – Delicatessen of Yorkshire Produce
Hunters of Helmsley is a friendly, family-run delicatessen set on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. A small multi award winning shop with offering a wide range of Yorkshire produce from many different local providers.
Website: https://huntersofhelmsley.com
Contact Details: 13 Market Place, Helmsley, York YO62 5BL – Tel: 01439 771307
Waind & Sons – Traditional Family Butcher
Traditional family butcher and purveyors of finest quality meats since 1882. The business today sells locally reared quality meats sourced from local Yorkshire farms.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/swaindandsons/
Address & Contact Details: 2 Piercy End, Kirkbymoorside, York YO62 6DF – Tel: 01751 431245
Helmsley Market Town
‘Thomas the Baker’ – Helmsley
Award winning bakers for over 40 years from the heart of Yorkshire, offering outstanding quality, freshly baked and great value products from their craft bakery in Helmsley ‘What isn’t sold today, won’t be sold tomorrow’.
Website: https://www.thomasthebaker.co.uk/deli-and-butchers.html
Address & Contact Details: The Bakers Yard, Sawmill Lane, Helmsley, York, YO62 5DQ – Tel: 01439 770870
The Whole Hogg, Malton – Farm Shop, Butcher & Bakery
The Whole Hogg Farm Shop is a family run business on a working farm famed for its seasonal produce offering home reared meat, home grown vegetables and home baked products, gifts and hampers. Meet some of the resident four legged friends – including ‘Betsy’ The Clydesdale Horse, ‘Dylan’ the 37 year old Shetland pony, and two Shetlands ‘Ruby’ (mum) and ‘Roxy’ (her daughter), there is also ‘Pearl the Pig’ and ‘Lily’ & ‘Robbie’ the goats.
Website: https://www.thewholehoggfarmshop.co.uk/
Address & Contact Details: Howe Bridge Farm, Malton YO17 6RQ – Tel: 01653 669469
Helmsley Indoor Artisan Food Market
Held on the third Friday of every month in the Helmsley Town Hall, this market showcases the best regional food, with a focus on local, small-scale growers and makers as well as embracing traditional farming and food production methods.
Website: https://www.yorkshire.com/view/attractions/helmsley/helmsley-market-2049639
Location: Helmsley
Local Farmers Busy Bringing in the Harvest
Newfields Organics – Vegetables, Eggs
Growers and producers of organic vegetables available in season, as well as organic eggs. Newfields only sell what they grow, including potatoes, carrots, onions, a variety of cabbages, lettuce, kale, parsnips, sprouts, beetroot, leeks, celeriac, cauliflower, broccoli and more!
Website: https://www.newfieldsorganics.com/
Address & Contact Details: Wold View, Manor, Main St, Fadmoor, York YO62 7HY – Tel: 01751 431558
Hemsley Brewing Company
Helmsley Brewing Co. are passionate about handcrafted beer from the North Yorkshire Moors. It is a micro brewery with shop and bar where all craft beers are brewed onsite.
Website: https://www.helmsleybrewingco.co.uk
Address & Contact Details: 18 Bridge St, Helmsley, York YO62 5DX – Tel: 01439 771014
Sloemotion – Hedgerow Fruit Liqueurs
Multi-award winning hedgerow fruit liqueurs using traditional methods and wild fruit, such as sloe gin, creating fabulous flavours. Spirit-infused fruit is used for their unique chocolate and chutney products.
Website: https://www.sloemotiondistillery.com/
Address & Contact Details: Green Farm, Barton-le-Willows, York YO60 7PD – Tel: 01653 618288
Pearson’s Soft Fruits – Pick Your Own & Fresh Fruit
Pearsons Soft Fruits grow strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, black currants, and red currants. Fruit is available ready picked or as ‘Pick your Own’. Jam and fruit vinegar, ‘made by us’ with fruit ‘grown by us’ is available throughout the year. Bedding plants, hanging baskets, cut flowers and herbaceous plants. The Tea garden open mid June to end of August.
Website: https://www.pearsonssoftfruits.com/
Address: Friars Hill, Sinnington, York YO62 6SL – Tel: 01751 433380
Fresh Local Fish
Fresh Fish from the Boat
You cannot beat the North Yorkshire coast for fresh fish with fresh fish direct from the boat available from Whitby, Staithes or at Saltburn Fish Market as well as many of the local fish vendors such as Thundercliffe’s Fishmongers in Helmsley.
Find Fortune’s Kippers in Whitby old town for some of the best traditional smoked kippers in England too,smoking fish since 1872.
Explore the variety of local produce available in and around The North York Moors and prepare to be amazed.
Enjoy what delights Yorkshire has to offer from its land other than the incredible scenery it provides.
Local Delicatessens – Home Made Local Produce
