Millets Farm

16 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment

by foodgenie in Out and about, Reviews, Shopping Tags: Millets Farm, pick your own, PYO

What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than wandering around Millets Farm PYO, sampling cherries, raspberries and strawberries on the way. And have you ever tasted a carrot fresh out of the ground – you don’t get that crunch and taste at the supermarket!

When I was invited to join a group of writers and bloggers on a tour of the ‘growing fields’ I jumped at the chance.

Millets Farm has been a favourite family place to go for many years. In the early days there was just a pick your own area, one of the first of its kind, and a small farm shop. We used to go on a Sunday morning and treat ourselves to freshly made sugared doughnuts! The Carter family have owned and farmed the 50 acre site since the 1950’s and the PYO and farm shop was opened in the ‘70’s. Since then the Garden Centre has been added, also the restaurant, café, trout fishery, playground, farm zoo, woodland walk and of course the annual ‘maize maze’.
We were welcomed by Jo from Millets Farm, given a fruit basket each and taken by Jo, Orlin Atanaso the resident fruit expert and Les Britten, veg expert on a behind the scenes tour of the farm, past the redcurrants, blackcurrants and gooseberries and on to the cherry orchard where we were encouraged under the nets to pick some of the fruit.
Then on past the rhubarb, broad beans and leeks to the carrots where Les dug armsful for us to taste and take home. Next we were off to the fruit cages of raspberries and strawberries where we were again encouraged to pick what we wanted. I plumped for raspberries….. and plump they certainly were!

A welcome cup of tea and coffee was waiting for us back in the restaurant were we were also presented with a goody bag each to take home.

I must confess I’ve eaten the scones and strawberry jam for tea…..and I think I’ll be going back at the weekend for more raspberries!

Many thanks to Hallane from Energy PR for inviting me on this tour.