Belvoir Fruit Farms
How to grow a weather proof garden
10th May 2012
Floods, hosepipe bans and unseasonably late frosts – the last six weeks have been upside down weather-wise. It’s had a rotten effect on all our gardens round here. So, we’ve been picking the brains of our friends in the horticultural world over how to create a weather-proof garden that is also insect friendly. Good, old-fashioned … [more…]
The great diamond giveaway!
4th May 2012
How’s this for a silly question – would you like to win a beautiful, sparkling diamond necklace worth £2,000? Yes? Well, all you need to do is look out for bottles of our Elderflower cordial and Ginger cordial. From now until July these delicious drinks will have a promotional collar on them giving you the … [more…]
Our NEW drinks are here!
21st February 2012
We LOVE the beginning of a new year – it’s when all the hard work of the previous 12 months comes to fruition and we start launching our new products. And we’ve got some absolute crackers for you this year. We’ve got a fabulously refreshing English Apple pressé made with freshly pressed Cox and Discovery … [more…]
Picture this!
10th January 2012
We’re getting really excited about some of the pictures you’ve sent in for our street party photograph competition, like this lovely one taken in Stratford where they seemed to be having such a great time. We’ve had some great pictures that have made us laugh, a few that are reminiscent of Downton Abbey and one … [more…]
Good Housekeeping Foodie Awards
3rd January 2012
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you’ve had a lovely festive break; we’ve certainly had a blast, although it feels a bit weird being back behind our desks again after such a long holiday. Having said that, we’ve got a very exciting 2012 planned with lots of fabulous new drinks being launched, loads of new … [more…]
Do something lovely!
13th December 2011
If something is really special, then everyone deserves to know about it. So, we’ve just launched our Lovely Awards to achieve exactly this. If you know of a wonderful deli, farm shop or café, or a foodie blog that is particularly interesting and entertaining, then nominate it for one of our awards. It can be … [more…]
Raising the roof at Christmas
7th December 2011
Wouldn’t Christmas be miserable if you couldn’t go to your local church to enjoy the beauty of a carol service or to celebrate midnight mass? Many of our Christmas traditions are under threat thanks to the rotten thugs who’ve been nicking lead from church roofs. It’s been happening all over the country, but it seems … [more…]
Advent Calendar Conundrums
2nd December 2011
It doesn’t matter how old you are, the magic of an advent calendar is priceless. But who would have thought they could be so controversial? Several people came into work this morning having had to indulge in all-in wrestling to prevent their offspring from eating all their calendar chocolate in one fell swoop. Conversely, Becky, … [more…]
Down on the farm
24th November 2011
When you see all our lovely drinks on the supermarket shelves it’s easy to forget that Belvoir Fruit Farms is a fully functioning farm, as well as being a drinks manufacturer. So, we thought we’d show you some of the “behind the scenes” stuff of what goes into our bottles. We’ve got over 90 acres … [more…]
Come and visit us at the shows
7th November 2011
The Spirit of Christmas show has now finished, it was a great show and the new gift fair layout near the food hall seemed to work really well with lots of unusual and gorgeous gift stands, so a really diverse show to visit. We sampled our new Mulled Punch last week at the show and … [more…]