NORTHERN HARVEST home Delivery

** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL NORTHERN HARVEST CUSTOMERS **

8th January 2020

It is with great sadness that we are announcing the decision to close Northern Harvest at the end of January 2020. After 18 years of weekly food deliveries to thousands of homes around the northwest, this has been a very difficult decision to make.

Since founding Northern Harvest in 2002 we have been fortunate to have a devoted core group of customers, many of whom have been with us since the very beginning. However, in recent years we’ve been battling to attract and retain new customers in the face of stiff competition from supermarkets with more resources than we could ever match. The number of deliveries has been steadily declining from a peak of over 500 a week in the late 2000s, and after trying several different ideas to revive the business, we felt we had little choice but to draw a line under the operation.

We appreciate that this will come as disappointing news to our loyal customers and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We are also conscious that this will be a blow to our suppliers, many of whom are small independent producers relying on us to help sell their goods. Most of all we’re sorry to the wonderful staff who have worked tirelessly for Northern Harvest over the years. Not least to our manager and fellow director Ed, who has been with us since Northern Harvest began and has dedicated some of the best years of his career to running the business.

We are providing a month’s notice of this decision and will continue to deliver as normal during January. The last orders will be taken on 28th January and the final delivery round will finish on 31st January 2020.
No other elements of Kenyon Hall Farm will be affected in any way by this decision. The Farm Shop, Café, Plant Centre and Pick Your Own operations, as well as the traditional agricultural side of the farm continue to develop and expand. Despite the closure of Northern Harvest, at Kenyon Hall we remain as dedicated as ever to supplying our local communities with fresh, local, seasonal produce and championing British food and farming wherever we can.

As many of you will know, the Farm Shop sells much of the same produce as Northern Harvest and we hope that as many of you as possible will continue to support us here at the farm. Although the shop doesn’t have the space to display the huge range of goods sold by Northern Harvest, we’d be happy to discuss any requests for specific items you may have which we could source for you. We also intend to continue taking Christmas food orders for turkeys, geese, veg boxes etc, just as we’ve done at the farm shop for the last decade.

On behalf of everyone at Northern Harvest, we’d like to say many thanks for all your support over the years. We hope we’ve helped bring some fresh, local, seasonal groceries into your life and it has been a pleasure to do so. We look forward to seeing you here at the farm in future. 

Tod and Barbara Bulmer

Until 31st January please contact Northern Harvest in the usual ways:
northernharvest.co.uk // enquiry@northernharvest.co.uk // 01925 764811.

After this date, for any enquiries regarding Northern Harvest, please contact the farm using the contact details below.