Welcome to our Summer Newsletter, and with the North Yorkshire countryside looking especially glorious at the moment, there is no better time to get out and about to discover all the wonderful local produce.

We hope you enjoy these summery stories and features which give a flavour of the many North Yorkshire producers and growers, farmers, farm shops, butchers, cafes, restaurants and other speciality local food outlets.

So why not go Al fresco - take a country drive, go fruit picking, dine under a parasol, pack a picnic, and enjoy a wonderful Summer in North Yorkshire.

The web site food-yorkshire.co.uk is also your very own personal directory of recipes, seasonal tips and ideas. Let it take you on a journey of discovery across North Yorkshire. Be it organic, free range, traditionally reared or rare-breed it’s all there just waiting to be discovered.

We hope you enjoy reading it.

Yours sincerely,

The North Yorkshire Local Food Team

York Festival of Food and Drink 2008
Friday, 19th September to Sunday, 28th September 2008

York’s 12th annual food extravaganza, the biggest in Britain, will take place in September. For 10 days visitors and tourists can sample street food, browse produce stores and celebrate all the very best that Yorkshire has to offer...[more]

150th Great Yorkshire Show
Tuesday, 8th July to Thursday, 10th July 2008

The Great Yorkshire Show is the North of England’s largest countryside and Agricultural show, and has built up an unrivalled reputation for all that is excellent in fabulous foods from Yorkshire and beyond...[more]

Green Day, Helmsley Walled Garden
Saturday, 16th August 2008

Go Green at This Gem of a Garden...[more]

Since the publication of the last newsletter, we are delighted to welcome all our new member to our website. It is exciting to see all the fabulous local produce available at all these pubs, restaurants, cafes and hotels across the County.

Click on the links below to read more about the new members and what they can offer.

• Angel Inn, Hetton
• Bonnie Hill Dairies, nr Stokesley
• Crown Inn, Helmsley
• Dunning Butchers, Pickering
• Fauconberg Arms Ltd, Coxwold
• Huby Grange Farm, Huby
• Just-Delicious, Pateley Bridge
• Old Station Inn, Birtswith
• Quantro Restaurant, Harrogate
• Restaurant 21, Easingwold
• Richards Produce, Topcliffe
• Solberge Hall Hotel & Restaurant, Newby Wiske
• Stanforths Old Pork Pie Shop, Skipton
• Tea Hee, Easingwold
• The Appletree, Marton
• The CB Inn, Arkengarthdale
• The Crosby Village Inn, Thornton le Beans
• The Crown Inn, Roecliffe
• The General Tarleton, Ferrensby
• The George & Dragon Hotel, Kirkbymoorside
• The Middleton Arms, Middleton
• The Old Hall Inn, Threshfield
• The Royal Oak Inn, Dacre Banks
• The Stone House Inn, Thruscross
• Thundercliffe's Fish & Fine Food, Scarborough
• Westwinds Yorkshire Tearooms, Buckden