With the Easter holidays looming, we have rounded up our top 5 things to do this Easter! Get creative! It’s time to dig out the crafts box and find your paint, pens, glue and paper! Keep it simple with this cute Easter bunting, creating colourful chicks and bunnies. Simple cut your coloured card to the desired shape then add a pop of colour and some googly eyes to finish! Use some string and clothes pegs to hang. For something a little different, add a packet of wooden lolly sticks to your weekly shop to makes these Easter animals. Glue the number...

Upstairs from our Farm Shop and Restaurant are six Conference Rooms available to hire for meetings, training and workshops. Read on to find out why we think our venue is the perfect choice for you and your team. Interviews Did you know that January and February are the busiest times of the year for recruitment? The combination of the Christmas break at home with family, or a dull-January can often prompt people to reconsider their job satisfaction and look to make a move. If you’re looking to conduct 1:1 interviews, our welcoming reception space and smaller rooms create the perfect...

It’s that wonderful time of year, when we turn to hearty and rich comfort foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Packed full of flavour and nutrients, from stews to soups, porridge to puddings the ability for winter food to boost our health and our mood shouldn’t be underestimated. Healthy and Hearty At this time of year, fresh root vegetables are in season in the UK and packing them into homemade soups and stews is a delicious way to ‘diet’. Cooking meals from scratch and knowing exactly the ingredients you’ve used is much better than eating packaged and processed foods and...

Throughout the year at Becketts Farm, we support many schools, community groups and charities with fundraising. We do this in a number of ways and we’re always so pleased to hear back some amazing fundraising totals! Additionally, our team members and customers get involved in various charity appeals and we are always blown away by your generosity towards causes close to our hearts and the hearts of the community we serve. Here are some of our 2022 charity highlights! Becketts Community Fund If you shop in our Farm Shop, you will have seen our token drop point, which supports three...

Take a look below at our Children’s Christmas Recipe Card. The perfect activity to keep your little ones busy over the festive period. Enjoy a chocolate mug cake whilst watching a movie. Have fun making Pizza rolls on the weekend. Take some tasty homemade sausage rolls on a winter walk. And bake gingerbread men on Christmas Eve to leave for Father Christmas. Check out our Recipe Blog for some festive recipe ideas over the coming weeks.    

Between the 20th September and 2nd October, we will be celebrating British Food Fortnight. At Becketts Farm, we always strive to reduce food miles and support local suppliers. We will be championing all things British during this time and sharing some of our favourite suppliers. Many of our farmhouse favourites are made right here in our Farm Shop but others come from superb British suppliers. We are also giving one lucky person the chance to win a British Food Champions hamper which is packed full of extraordinary produce. Read on to find out more about the hampers’ content. Becketts’ Bakery...

Our sunflower field has been a star of the summer again here at Becketts Farm. We have had lots of lovely feedback about the space this year, which has been great to hear. This year’s sunflower field had a wonderful path travelling right the way through the field, meaning visitors could have a totally immersive experience. As well as the sunflowers, our purpose-built picnic area has certainly proven to be popular, with many families taking advantage of the beautiful sunny weather. Furthermore, our wildflower area was also expanded this year. It really was fascinating to see just how many different...

The 7th – 13th August marks Afternoon Tea week giving all of us a great excuse to enjoy this great British tradition, a cuppa with friends and some tasty treats. Here at Becketts we serve our popular Afternoon Tea in our Restaurant and it’s also available as an option to takeaway! Should you fancy putting your own Afternoon Tea together at home, to enjoy in the garden, we’ve rounded up some of the best ingredients from our Farm Shop to help. Tier 1 – Sandwiches and Savouries Our freshly baked bread from the bakery counter is an excellent starting point...

Air-conditioned Workspace Did you know that all of our conference rooms have air-conditioning? Many people hire our smaller rooms as an individual workspace rather than a meeting room for multiple delegates. Our smallest room has a small boardroom table set up for 6 and can be hired on an hourly rate. In fact, it’s not just the Conference Centre which has air-conditioning! You’ll find our on-site Farm Shop, Restaurant and Coffee Shop to be beautifully cool as well. Home working, without the kids to distract you With home working still the norm for many people, the school summer holidays may...

Our stock of Becketts Farm honey is back in store, and it flies off the shelves so quickly each year. Produced under two miles away from our store on our farmland in Earlswood, this really is local honey in every sense of the word. Beekeeper, Andrew draws the honey from a small colony of bees just down the road from here. On average a bee travels less than a mile from its hive for food, so the honey is produced from the nectar of local plants and flowers. For many beekeepers, June sees the first honey harvest of the year....

With lots of lovely fruit coming into season now, it’s the perfect time to dig the blender from the back of the cupboard and get experimenting with smoothies. They’re simple to make and really fun to experiment with, along with packing in plenty of health benefits and nutrients. Most nutritionists would agree that eating the whole fruit is better for you overall, but when we are short on time, inspiration and let’s face it – will power to keep up the healthy snacking – a smoothie can be a great solution. What’s more, by including other food groups other than...

With the Queen’s Jubilee just around the corner, we’ve rounded up a one stop shopping list for the Royal Family, for next time they’re in town! Royal Earl Grey Tea Top of the list is Earl Grey Tea. It’s how the Queen starts her day each morning. We’re reaching for the Cartwright & Butler Classic Earl Grey Tea for our royal shopping basket. We have a wonderful selection of teatime treats and fine teas from Cartwright & Butler, who are a quintessentially British family business. Her Royal Highness enjoys her morning cuppa with a dash of milk and some biscuits...