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BUTTERVILLA FARM. POLBATHIC. ST GERMANS. TORPOINT. CORNWALL. PL11 3EY 01503 230315 robert@buttervilla.com About Buttervilla Buttervilla leaves, vegetables and fruits are hand grown in Cornwall using Everything is grown on a small scale, cropped young and tender, We grow many heirloom varieties which are much taster but don't crop as well as the modern commercial varieties and have a shorter shelf life, but for us quality and taste come first. We hunt out long forgotten varieties and then test grow to select the tastiest. Heritage tomatoes, not only red but yellow, pink, purple and black varieties such as Tommy Toe and Lemon Drop from Australia, Black Cherry, Riesentraube and the super tasty red Brandy Wine along with old favorites such as Gardeners Delight, which everyone raved about last season having a thin skin, concentrated fruitiness, balanced with a fine acidity. To get these special flavours tomatoes need to be organically grown, fed with lots of compost and allowed to ripen fully on the vine. It also helps to only give them fresh spring water, which has none of the chemicals associated with mains water and adds to the beautifully clean lingering flavours.
Read the press about Buttervilla here March 09 - Sean our leaf guru has grown a range of micro leaves and baby vegetables that have been used in three episodes of Heston Blumenthal's recent television series - Feast. Fifteen - Cornwall "Student Chefs Day Out" During September 2008 the student chefs from Fifteen Cornwall held their annual sourcing visit with the Buttervilla Growers at Keveral and Skyegrove farms. They learnt a little about how we grow our sensational fruit and vegetables for their restaurant, tried their hand at planting, harvested ingredients then cooked a slap up lunch. The highlight for most was having a try at ploughing behind the Comtois draught horses that are used at Skygrove. Kevin and Brian started to work this wonderful 18 acre plot in the spring of 2008 and are one of the very few farmers using horses.
Here's a list of some of the produce we are growing in 2009 Funky Leaves Tomatoes: Fruits: Plus: Herbs: Plus a lots more experimental crops which we add to our lists each year after test growing
Buttervilla's group of growers have been supplying lots of produce to Fifteen since the day they opened, our heritage tomatoes have been a real hit with the chefs and diners, we have also supplied much of the local organically grown produce on offer at the restaurant. Executive chef Neil Haydock has used our produce for many demonstrations at local and national foody events Fifteen Chefs visit Buttervilla
The trainees planting courgette's and weeding tomatoes From the Times May 23rd 2009 Cornwall Today magazine Oct 2008: The Independent Sunday, 14 September 2008: The Independent August 5th 2007: The Times May 07: Cornwall Food Finder - Food Bites She Magazine November 2007: Fifteen Cornwall Apprentices use Buttervilla produce at Labour Party Reception The Guardian Travel section Saturday 8th September: The Sunday Telegraph 12th August: From the Cornish Guardian September 5th 2007 Fresh from the farm to table By James Oxley An apprentice chef at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant has become a food producer and is supplying salad and vegetables to the eatery. Anna Greenland, 25, from Trevisker was so impressed by the bright colours and tastes of the salad leaves flowers and tomatoes grown for the restaurant that she developed a yearning to get growing in the garden herself. After teaming up with Buttervilla Farm, near Torpoint, she now combines working at the restaurant with tending a plot of land to meet the kitchen's year-round demand for fresh vegetables. The young chef said: "From the very first time I saw and tasted the Buttervilla ingredients I was totally bowled over at how something as simple as a salad could taste so amazing and really wanted to have a go at growing them myself. Robert Hocking, at Buttervilla offered me the fantastic opportunity to help them supply the restaurant by tending a local plot with a polytunnel, and I jumped at the chance. "I've been growing a range of organic salad vegetables and edible flowers for eight months now and get a real buzz seeing the produce that I've planted, nurtured and harvested on the menu here at Fifteen Cornwall. Plus it's even better hearing first hand that the customers have enjoyed eating it." Fifteen Cornwall apprentice chef Tim Wilson, 18, from Truro was impressed by Anna's salad garden. He said: "It was great to see what Anna's been up to outside the restaurant. Her polytunnel was really hot and provided a welcome escape from the rain. Downlaod Anna's Buttervilla Diary here Buttervilla Farm B&B Buttervilla Farm Local Food Advisor - Website listing award winning local food producers across the UK & Ireland.
BUTTERVILLA FARM. POLBATHIC. ST GERMANS. TORPOINT. CORNWALL. PL11 3EY 01503 230315 robert@buttervilla.com
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