Monday 15 June 2015

Haughton Honey a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015

Cheshire-based Haughton Honey has won a place in the final of the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015. 
The honey was named as one of ten short-listed products in the sweet preserves category of the awards, run by Great British Food Magazine. 
Bee farmer Cris Reeves, who launched Haughton Honey last year, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to have been selected as a finalist in the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards. 
“We receive great feedback from our customers about how much they love Haughton Honey, but to be chosen for the shortlist of an award in a national magazine is just amazing. It’s great exposure for the brand, and comes as we prepare to celebrate our first birthday.”   
Made by English bees and bottled by Haughton Honey, which is based at Radmore Farm, Haughton, in Cheshire, the brand is probably the most unadulterated honey that you can buy, added Cris. 
Featuring traces of dandelion, chestnut, lime, blackberry, clover and other wildflowers, Haughton Honey is cold extracted to protect the natural enzymes and proteins that make English honey so tasty. 
Five pence from the sale of each jar of Haughton Honey is donated to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to help protect bumblebees, and preserve and restore their habitats. It is vegetarian friendly and is 100% natural and pure. 
Tom Shingler, deputy editor of Great British Food Magazine, said of the awards: “We had a record-breaking 353 entries from 242 companies, making this the biggest awards yet. For us, provenance was a priority.” 
Cris, who has been a bee farmer for more than ten years, owns 300 hives. He is supplementing his supply of honey from apiaries all run by experienced bee farmers, and now has more than 1,600 hives in the cooperative, stretching across the North West and the Midlands, including Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. 
Haughton Honey is sold in more than 60 stores, as well as being available direct to customers via its website www.haughtonhoney.com Stockists include Walter Smith Fine Food at Bridgemere Garden World near Nantwich in Cheshire, reputedly the largest garden centre in Europe, the Gift Shop at Chester Cathedral, Tatton Park shop, Amaranth Wellbeing in Bramhall, a health and wellbeing retailer that recently won Best Independent Retailer of The Year in the Natural & Organic Awards, and Cheerbrook Farm Shop, the multi-award winning farm shop situated outside of Nantwich. 
“We’re so excited with the news that our honey has been chosen as a finalist in such a high-profile awards scheme, and would really like to thank our customers and our stockists, who have been really supportive of Haughton Honey,” added Cris. 
Winners of the Great British Food Farm Produce Awards 2015 will be announced on 29th June 2015. 
For more details visit www.haughtonhoney.com
Press release issued by Nottingham PR company Perfect 10 PR www.perfect10pr.co.uk