Having worked as a chef for the past thirty years and spending his childhood on a farm, with the product of the year’s harvest having to be preserved without any modern methods such as freezers.

He started serving traditional pickles with modern food and it proved to be a winning combination. Whilst working in a restaurant within the Derbyshire Dales, the traditional pickles he created gained awards.

In 2002 after visiting a number of food fairs nothing tasted as he remembered, the flavours available now, were ‘much of a muchness’. He could find nothing of the original flavours that would originate from a farmhouse cottage coming through.

All the chutneys, pickles and jams are hand made with quality ingredients. All of the preserves are treated with a good pinch of TLC.