All the Lyburn news from 2002.


October 26th and 27th 2002. A Pumpkin and Cheese weekend. The farm shop will be open all weekend to cater for the needs of those that have not yet secured their pumpkins. This is a birds eye view of the shop area. The pumpkins come in all shapes and sizes. The small ones are in short supply this year but the large ones are plentiful, up to a weight of 25lb.

September 2002 British Cheese Awards 2002 This year the British Cheese Awards 2002 have moved to Chipping Campden, a suitable successor to Stow, and a delightful town to visit.
This year we took some selling space and joined in with taste of the South East. Lesley Ward and Sue Scott masterminded the sales drive for six of us cheesemakers from the area. It is a big bonus for the small cheese makers to be included, as some of us just would not have had the time and resources to cope with the full three days. Judy and Lesley in full sales mode.
As far as we were concerned another good result. We have managed to repeat our Silver award for the Garlic and Nettle. Tim has made a few changes to it from last year so it is not exactly the same as it was, and is even more popular at Farmers Markets.
September 2002. Emsworth four day food festival, was I would think, a huge success. We did the Friday and Saturday and were sold out by 2pm both days. Those of you that missed out, will now be able to get our cheeses from Evelyn Pearce's, Emsworth Deli in the village
August 2002. We have now opened the cheese shop on the end of the new creamery. For the time being we will be only selling our own cheeses, the varieties of which will grow over time. Along side the cheese, we will sell our own Organic, in season, vegetables. The opening times of the shop are: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, 2-00pm until 4-30 pm.
May 2002. Here we see a trolley full of smoked cheeses. We do not smoke them here on the farm as we have no equipment , but they go to a local smokery, Fjordling, run by Andrew and Susan Espir at Pitton.
April 2002. After some delays and problems, mainly mechanical, all is now working well. We needed more cheese moulds, and needed to retain the same shape cheese as we originaly started with, so have tried a number of different suppliers, and the one you see in the adjacent picture will do nicely.
Feburary 2002. The new creamery has now been finished. All the plant and equipment has been installed cleaned and cleaned again and now tested. All is well, there were just a few gremlins to sort out but nothing very serious. The new vat that we had made by a local firm works well, but trying to buy new cheese moulds is another story.