It’s that time of year again when Catherine is travelling around London and the South, taking Summerdown on the road to some brilliant Christmas fairs. Below is a list of where she’s going to be, so please come and say hi – we love to meet our customers, new and old and hear all about …
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Mint on the move at Christmas fairs
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Summerdown at the Good Festival
Catherine will once again be bringing Summerdown’s chocolates, teas and treats to the Good Festival on 25th June, an annual festival in support of The Hampshire Medical Fund – a charity raising vital money for the NHS hospitals of Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover to purchase cutting-edge medical equipment.` She’d love to see you there. Good …
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Meet Laura
For May’s ‘meet the team’ profile, we sat down with Laura, who joined the team in September 2021 to head up our ‘Stay at Summerdown’ offering. Laura’s earlier career in interior design and managing small building projects made her the perfect choice to take on responsibility for launching and overseeing our stunning shepherd’s huts on …
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WIN a cosy Winter’s night in
We’ve teamed up with luxury pyjama brand Their Nibs to offer you a chance to win a winter-nights in bundle worth over £70. This wonderful prize includes; a Summerdown Relaxation gift box which contains our mouth-watering peppermint creams, restorative peppermint tea, relaxing mint & lemongrass bath soak and nourishing mint & lemongrass body lotion PLUS …
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Shortlisted for Great British Food Award
News just in. We’ve been shortlisted for not just one, but three Great British Food Awards. The Great British Food Awards were launched in 2014 to celebrate the very best artisanal produce in the food and drink industry with a judging panel comprising some of the most acclaimed chefs, food critics and influencers in …
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Lavender harvest at Summerdown Farms
It doesn’t seem nearly a year ago that we were harvesting the mint on our Hampshire farm and welcoming Anita Rani and the crew from BBC Countryfile to film for their Harvest 2016 special. But #harvest17 is now in full swing with the unpredictable British weather keeping Farm Manager Ian on his toes! …
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Wow we’ve finished ahead of schedule…
After Farm Manager Ian’s fifteen minutes of fame on Countryfile, normal life on the farm has resumed and Ian has got back to his day job. If you didn’t manage to catch the programme on September 4th, it’s still available on BBC i-player. Incredibly we managed to finish #harvest16 ahead of schedule. After a slow start to …
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Behind the scenes with BBC Countryfile
Thursday 18th August would have been a normal busy day of harvesting and distilling at Summerdown Farms, had it not been the long-awaited day that had been selected by the BBC to come and film Countryfile. It had taken nearly two years from when we first contacted the programme researchers to tell them about …
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It’s hotting up…notes from the Summerdown farm
It’s hotting up this week, in more ways than one! Ian’s back from his well-earned break and his holiday probably feels like a distant memory as it’s been busy busy busy this week getting ready for the onslaught of harvest. This means cleaning down all the machinery and grain stores and checking everything is in first class …
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