Best Food Producer of the Year: Meet the Finalists

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to bring home the title of Best Food Producer in the Food and Farming Awards 2021? This year, Sheila Dillon and chef Angela Hartnett visit a local nose-to-tail butchery, a community cooperative farm and an enterprise employing ex-offenders to make delicious pasties and pies. H.M.Pasties was set up by Lee Wakeham to ‘bring out the good inside’ by employing ex-offenders like himself to make and sell handmade Cornish-style pasties and baked goods to customers across Greater Manchester while adding real social benefit to the community.

Locally sourced meat, nose-to-tail eating and artisanal butchery are the terms that define Lizzy Douglas’s The Black Pig, whose philosophy is to use only naturally-reared, free range meat to support the local economy and supply customers with fantastic quality Kentish produce.

Growing with Grace is a farm dedicated to supplying sustainably grown produce to local people and businesses. Growing in nearly two acres of glasshouses, they pride themselves on producing the best quality organic vegetables, salad, and fruits in the region using a community supported agriculture model.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced by Robbie Armstrong

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1:00.6	Recognizing the people, businesses, and organizations changing Britain through great food.
1:07.0	This year, our 20th, if you leave out the missed lockdown years,
1:11.0	Chef Angela Hartnett and I, she's the chair of the judges this year.
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