The Hairy Bikers at Growing Well at Low Sizergh Barn
Low Sizergh Farm Shop Award-winning local produce
Low Sizergh is one of our favourite Farm Shops and has just been named in the Times top ten of Farm Shops in the UK, as well as being shortlisted for the prestigious Farmer Retailer of the Year.
Alison Park and her brother Richard, with Richards’s wife and son Matthew, have spent all their lives working in the family business, and they also employ a further 40 people from the local community.
Low Sizergh Barn has been owned and operated by the Park family for 40 years, and their Farm Shop is in its 30th year. The Farm and Barn Shop are located just off the A591 main route into the Lakes as you turn off the M6 at Junction 36. With a cafe, farm shop and deli, and a gift shop selling unusual cards, art, clothing, and more, it’s an ideal place to head for as a stop-off to treating yourself to local goodies and the first taste of Cumbria.
Set in a 17th-century Westmorland stone barn, the dairy farm shop showcases a host of produce from the farm and its on-site organic vegetable business: Growing Well, a mental health charity, organic farm, and training centre, as well as the county’s growers and makers, and artisan food producers nationally.
Seen as a local treasure in the Lakes community, they have just reached the final stages of the Farm Retailer of the Year in Newsquest’s Farmer Awards, with results on October 1st. They also appeared this month in The Times top ten of Farm Shops in the UK and starred in the Hairy Bikers Go North, particularly Growing Well.
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Alison Park said: “We are so proud of the nomination for food retailer of the year as it shows just how hard our farm shop and café team have worked through really challenging times. The staff went above and beyond to ensure our customers still had access to wholesome food. At the start of the pandemic, we created a completely new service with phone shopping and collection or delivery, and
45 mins Cows being milked at Low Sizergh Barn
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