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The UK’s fastest growing egg business St. Ewe Free Range Eggs, has been awarded the highly-acclaimed B Corp certification, making them the UK’s first egg packer to achieve B Corp status in Europe. The certification has arrived in line with B Corp month which falls in March, a month dedicated…

The need to improve food resilience from farm to consumer is being flagged up almost daily. The UK now produces less than 60% of its food with fruit only 14%. At the same time our supply lines for imports are at high risk from geo-political factors, poor harvests, climate change,…

Tesco has launched a promotion of Cornish new potatoes with packaging sporting the Cornish flag.  The season started later than usual this year because of the wet spring and the promotion will run until August, when potatoes from Suffolk take over. Later in the year the supermarket brings in imports…

Trewithen Dairy, at Greymare Farm in the Glynn Valley, has been owned by the Clarke family since 1976, and who moved into crafting dairy products there in 1994. The company now sources milk from a substantial number of Cornish dairy farms and with 260 employees produces milk, cream, butter and…

Cornish cheeses made their mark at this year’s British Cheese Awards held at the Bath and West Showground. Gold Award winners were Cornish Cheese Company’s ‘Cornish Blue’, Cornish Kern and Wild Garlic Yarg both from the Lynher Dairies stable, and Davidstow Extra Mature Cheddar from Saputo Dairies. Saputo’s Cheddar was…

Cornish Food Box, owned by CFFG Chair Lucy Jones and sister Tor Amran, have taken over Lillie Bros doorstep delivery service from Trewithen Dairies. The wholesale part has gone to Hunts Food Services of Sherborne. This means Cornish Food Box, in their Lillie Brothers livery, are now doing a twice…