June is still a busy time for all of us on the farm. We have our annual Open Farm Sunday event to prepare for, which this year was a tremendous success and I’d like to thank all the fantastic volunteers who helped with the smooth running of the event, as well as all the Croots […]

Croots Farm Shop products went down a storm at the Houses of Parliament when they were showcased at the bi-annual Derbyshire Food and Drinks Fair ’A Taste of Derbyshire’ hosted by Derbyshire MPs. Croots took along some of its award-winning homemade products including pork pie, sausage roll, lemon drizzle cake, and Bakewell tart, plus a […]

Although there’s always lots of ups and downs when lambing, its still a wonderful (albeit very tiring!!!) experience to see new lambs and new foals being born. This was my third year of lambing without Steve and I’ve learnt lots in that time..taking advice off other local farmers, going on a lambing course at Scarsdale […]

Surely the rain must start to ease soon???? I’m sure like many of you we are hoping for some drier days as some of our fields are so churned up, we are starting to wonder if they will ever look the same again. And with our lambs & foals due very soon, we are hoping […]

We are delighted in celebrating winning an award at the annual British Pie Awards. See below for the press release 🙂 The new Croots Steak, Mushroom and Cracked Black Peppercorn Pie took the reserve champion award in the beef and vegetable pie category. Croots Farm Shop is no stranger to winning awards for its extensive […]

British Pie Week is the first week in March from Monday 4th March through to Sunday 10th March.   The British Pie Awards is at the centre of the week with judging on the 6th March and the Awards Lunch on the 10th March. This year we have entered 3 of our pies including two new flavours, Steak, […]