Delighted to announce a bumper line up for our Farmers Market on 16th April, La Belle Flowers Nortons Dairy Bon Bakery Pudd'Eng Elegant Pawz Coriander & Lime Norfolksharp Leigh's Bees
So Sweet Warlingham Wines Nelson and Norfolk Tea to name a few.........! Norfolk Food & Drink Festival
Proudly telling our story in the NEW Feast Norfolk magazine...good Sunday morning reading and available in the shop White House Farm, Norwich.
I still find it hard to believe that minutes from Norwich city centre my husband, Oliver and I have the dream life at our idyllic gem that is White House Farm. What started life fifty years ago as a PYO has been our canvas to grow and build in to a destination. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire; Oliver’s former life was as a Royal Marine tackling Somalian pirates in the Gulf and I worked for the small tech business that makes iPhones! Hardly the grounding one might need to take the drafty shed that sold fruit for a few months a year to the farmshop, café and now butchery that you see today in our beautiful Norfolk red brick cart shed. It’s been a roller coaster of a ride, and hard graft as we’ve expanded the business using every ounce of imagination, as we turn redundant doors into café tables, and old apple boxes into shelving to house our fantastic array of local products, most of whom showcase their delicacies at our monthly farmers’ markets.
The butchery seemed the obvious next step, and an ideal way to complement the fruit by enabling us to open all year round. Given we knew nothing about meat/butchery, it wasn’t without some wonderful local people that the whole idea got off the ground. In true community spirit and by good fortune Archers donated their refurbished counter to us, Andrew Clarke at Blake’s abattoir enabled us to meet our local suppliers to ensure our meat comes from the closest farms possible and the best farms. It made me proud to have our first beef from an NR7 postcode, and to be able to tell customers how honest the process is, something the giant supermarket next to us struggles to convey. We recruited our butcher, known fondly as ‘Stevie Wonder’; he has a wealth of experience both on the highstreet and in farmshops and has taken the business from strength to strength and to our delight is creating quite a following.
As you can imagine it was with great pride that we went to collect our FARMA award this month as winner of the ‘Best Newcomer Farmshop’. To be recognised on a national level was truly exciting, and we got to meet the great Will Chase behind the success story that is Tyrells crisps.
We have great plans for the future and the venture doesn’t stop here; we have a conversion of barns in the process so we can house other great local artisan and lifestyle businesses and a play barn for all those little monsters who need to let off steam.
Sunshine....worth knocking the dust off the BBQ? Burgers on offer White House Farm, Norwich
We do still have tickets for our evening hosting Coriander & Lime on the farm. Tickets available in the shop, just ask our lovely girls! It promises to be delicious. ;-)
Cauliflower cheese lunchtime special today...while you pick up some steak for the weekend?
Hurrah the sun is out and we have delicious carrot cake on offer!
WHF perfection....bank holiday blues cheered by scrambled eggs ;-)
Best Easter wishes to all our lovely customers.....we reopen as normal on Tuesday. ;-)
Hurrah we are OPEN as normal today with a few cream egg brownies that deserve a taste....
This week the farmer went to Edinburgh to learn a few tips from the fruit growing pros. Craigie's Farm Shop and Cafe Be sure to visit if you are ever up north. Farma_gb
Easter week...and this little chap was born yesterday White House Farm, Norwich!
Double choc cream liqueur on PROMOTION for Easter £14.95...treat someone special. ;-)- In case you missed this ;-)
Nice to meet some new faces today Norfolksharp and what a lovely market it was! Thank you all ;-)
There are even wine gums in the rocky road this am...at the farmer's request! ;-)
Recent reviews
- “Went here to today and had a lovely time. We had a lovely lunch, jacket potatoes filled with tuna with scrummy hot chocolates followed by the most yummy lemon drizzle cake.” Sarah L.
- “Considering it was busy the service was excellent . We had a lovely browse around the shops.
Will definitely be returning.”Lily P.
- “Great butcher, fantastic meat, great coffee and cakes!” Jim B.
- “A Hidden Gem, I love this place as it has so much to offer, a lovely coffee shop with a real fire, a butchers with great local meats. The BBQ chicken kebabs are great. There are new businesses outside, Hairdressers, Florists, Nursery (children's) - lots on offer.” Brian G.
- “Lived in Sprowston for 20 years but this was my first visit to White House Farm. Wish we'd gone sooner. Lovely farm shop with great produce. We bought a couple of egg and bacon baps and ate them outside in the sunshine with two very nice coffees. Friendly and prompt service. Recommended.” Jonathan G.
- “The sausage rolls are amazing! Can't leave without one.”Sarah
- “Great place - a wonderful family run this place and are always very welcoming. Coffee, cakes, and GREAT butchers.”Nathan
- “Lovely family run cafe and shop, staff are very friendly and even though they were extremely busy, they still provided excellent service! We had a fabulous lunch with delicious soup and amazing cakes!”Beth
- “Wonderful place! Pleasure to drink coffee here”Aldona
- “Amazing place! The staff are so friendly, the sausage rolls are awesome and the chocolate cake was to die for. Coffee was fab too.”Vanessa
- “Lovely little shop and a very warm welcome. Wish we had more places like this back home.”Becca
- “Went here to today had a lovely time. We had a lovely lunch, jacket potatoes filled with tuna with scrummy hot chocolates followed by the most yummy lemon drizzle cake. Considering it was busy the service was excellent . We had a lovely browse around the shops. Will definitely be returning.”Sarah
- “Love the sausages and meat. Always fresh and tastes so much better than from anywhere else.”Carol
- “Visited today for the farmers market, first visit in a while, and very impressed with all the new additions here. Well worth a visit, keep up the good work.”Gary
- “What a wonderful place! I wish I had visited sooner. Delicious lunch and some fantastic local produce on sale in the shop. Very friendly staff. Will definitely be back!”Leyla
- “A really good work force. Good customer service, and most of all the food is good too.”Mike
- “This is our third year buying our Halloween pumpkins from White House Farm. The children love it and we love picking up a little extra in the Farm Shop. The White House Farm apple juice is divine.”Amy
- “Great cafe and fantastic farm shop. And the bonus of lovely little shops in the new converted barns”Darren
- “You wouldn't believe the city is nearby... Lovely... ”Ctibor
- “Simply a lovely place. PYO Paradise! Friendly and very professional family enterprise. Superb food: even the sausage rolls are in a class of their own! Well worth a visit.”David
