Love Local Produce
Across our farm shop, butchery, deli & café we work with over 40 local suppliers, to bring you the best local food the region has to offer. With locally made fudge, hand pressed cider & freshly baked bread; fill your basket with delicious local food & drink, here at Cheerbrook.
Bidlea Dairy of Holmes Chapel, supply fresh milk to our farm shop & café. The Brown family have been raising the Bidlea girls for three generations on their farm in Holmes Chapel; the herd’s bloodline can be traced back 100 years! With over 900 Holstein-Friesian cows, current farmers Adam & Becky have created the Bidlea brand, taking milk & cream into local farm shops, delis & cafés. Most recently Bidlea have ventured into ice cream production, in their farm based dairy.
Grazing on luscious Cheshire grass, the herd spend the majority of the year outside, producing milk rich in protein & butter fat. Happy cows make the best milk! Taking pride in their husbandry, the Brown family's happy herd produce full flavoured, nutritious milk.
A relatively new addition to Cheerbrook, Bidlea now supply all of our farm shop & café milk, as well as their rich double cream, used by our bakers in our fresh cream cakes, egg custard tarts & quiches. We’re proud to support local farmers, just like Bidlea, in their diversification!
From steak burgers to our silverside roasting joints, the beef we serve on our butchery counter here at Cheerbrook is reared with care & passion by farmers Robert & David Bourne, on their family farm, at the foot of Bickerton Hill.
Bourne’s Aberdeen Angus cattle graze on permanent pasture & natural heathland at the foot of the hill; working with the National Trust to manage the natural environment & restore one of Cheshire’s few remaining true heathlands.
Selected for breeding for their superior taste & texture, Aberdeen Angus have an unparalleled reputation across the globe as the premium beef cattle breed. Unlike other breeds of beef cattle, Aberdeen Angus have not been historically bred to pull ploughs. Instead they have been bred purely for their beef, with a finer grain to the meat with marbling adding to the rich & indulgent flavour.
Read more about the brilliant local producers we work with at Cheerbrook in our charity recipe book 'For the Love of Food' - with all profits raised donated to Nantwich District Nurses; our 2021-22 Charity of the Year. Available to order online or pick up in our Farm Shop.
