The Best 50 Farm Shops
This is an excuse to unashamedly push the Yorkshire Dales Food Mapping Project we have just completed – if you would like a copy of the report let me know. Unlike our work which spent a lot of time coming up with a deliberative and detailed framework for understanding what is happening around the local food agenda and which bits of it are good and capable of further development – this top 50 list seems quite impressionistic in its content and rationale.
The list itself and judges can be accessed easily through this link and do provide some interesting reading. The list and its constituent food outlets are also testament to the powerful local food offer in terms of its positive nutritional, landscape, local employment and tourism impacts. If you are just toying with the idea of joining this particular and important bandwagon you should definitely get on board as quick as you can.