Award Winning Produce
Lynda Brown - New Shopper's Guide to Organic Food
Graig Farm produce has achieved widespread recognition for the quality of our produce and the service we provide.
ORGANIC FOOD AWARDS
We have been awarded organic Food Awards every year since 1993 (none was held in 2005 or 2007):
Gold (fish category) - 2006Silver (beef) - 2006
Bronze (charcuterie) - 2006
Winner, Charcuterie (bacon) - 2004
Highly Commended, Poultry - 2003
Highly Commended, Retailer - 2002
Commended, Beef - 2002
ORGANIC RETAILER OF THE YEAR (Website) - 2001
Highly Commended, Beef Biltong - 2001
Commended, (x2), Meat Products & Welsh Mountain Mutton - 2001
Highly Commended, Retailer (Internet), 2000
Highly Commended (x2), Meat Category, 2000
Commended, Prepared Meats Category, 1999
Winner, Poultry Category, 1998
OVERALL WINNER (Organic Food Producer of the Year) -1997
Winner and Runner-up, Meat Category, 1997
Winner and Runner-up, Fish Category, 1997
Finalists - 1996
Finalists - 1995
Winner, Meat Category - 1994
Winner, Meat Category - 1993
Best Home Delivery Service
Soil Association Organic Business Awards
Finalist 2008
Winner 2005
"This is one organic home delivery service that really does whet the appetite - be it their award-winning organic mutton or organic ready meals made by a local chef," said the judges. "You can even buy organic soft fruit plants, local handmade cosmetics for your skin and organic baby blankets."
Judges comments
More Organic Food Awards information
Nigella Lawson describing some organic Welsh Black beef from Graig Farm Organics - February 2006
Great Taste Awards
In 2008, Graig Farm Organics won two Golds at the Great Taste Awards- for our beef and opur bacon.
In 2001Graig Farm's Organic Smoked Bacon won a Gold Award in the Great Taste Awards, added to which it was awarded "Best Organic Product" and "Best Welsh Product"
We were awarded a Silver and a Bronze Award in the Great Taste Awards 2002 for our Bacon and Pork Sausages.
In 2003, we achieved further success in these awards, with 2 Silver and 2 Bronze Awards.
We were successful again in 2004 with our cooked ham.
Best Organic Mail Order
"One of the pioneers of organic foods, Graig Farm in Powys now offers a spectacular selection - from delicious Welsh Lamb and beef to ready meals (their Organic Welsh Beef Tagine with Prunes surpasses every possible expectation), groceries, even locally produced skin care products and knitwear produced from their own sheep! Hot on the environment and fair trade issues, their website is a joy and the mail order system highly efficient"BBC Good Food Magazine - January 2003
Wales's True Taste Awards
In the first ever Welsh Taste Awards, in November 2002, Graig Farm Organics won a gold award in the Organic Food category. This was followed in 2003 by a silver award for our Ready Meal range, and two further awards in 2005.
Winner ADAS/Sun. Telegraph Food Marketing Award
Rick Stein's Food Heroes
Graig Farm Organics is recommended as a Food Hero 2002 & 2005
Financial Times
Click here for the full story on the Organic Food Awards
Raymond Blanc, Judge, Organic Food Awards - 1997/8
BRITAIN'S BEST BACON
"The only bacon not to leak juice - just buttery, perfumed fat. This was a textbook rasher: deliciously chewy, with a good pork flavour and just a hint of juniper in the aftertaste. The higher meta-to-fat ratio made this perfect for a bacon sarnie"
BBC Good Food Magazine 2008
THE WORLD'S BEST SAUSAGES
Graig Farm Organics Beef and garlic sausages
FHM Magazine September 2008
TEN BEST VEGETABLE BOXES
Independent Newspaper September 2005
TOP 10 DINNERS IN A BOX
(Review of the Best Ready Meals)
Independent on Sunday Newspaper February 2005
TOP 50 FOOD SHOPS IN THE UK
Independent Newspaper November 2004
TOP 50 FESTIVE HAMPERS
Independent Newspaper November 2004
TOP 50 FOOD WEBSITES
Independent Newspaper March 2004
TOP TEN HAMPERS
Independent Newspaper, November 2002
E-mail from mail order customer - May 2004
(Duroc is a breed of pig)
GRAIG FARM wins "Connected Business" CATEGORY
IN UK'S TOP 100 VISIONARY COMPANIES AWARD
In March 2002 Graig Farm was awarded category winner in the prestigious BTVision100 awards at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The awards, arranged jointly by BT, The Guardian and Cranfield University, judged the UK's 100 most visionary organisations. Graig Farm was rewarded for its efforts to bridge the gap between individual producers and between producers and consumers. Click here for full details of the BT Vision 100 Awards
"A most commendable business. Reviewers have raved quite rightly"
Deliaonline.com - Deliah Smith's Website
"Surviving pioneers of mail-order food have succeeded by being the best. Graig Farm is a shining example of this."
Country Illustrated - November 1999
In May 2001, we were Wales Regional Winners of the UK Government's e-Commerce Awards for our Website
In December 2000 we were Welsh Winners of the Parcelforce Small Business Awards
Graig Farm
In June 2001, Bob Kennard, partner in Graig Farm, was presented the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme Award for Best Campaigner, jointly with Caroline Cranbrook, for their work in saving the UK's smaller abattoirs. In 2002, he was a judge in the BBC Food and Farming Awards.
Amongst our many letters from satisfied mail order customers, one wrote "Thank you for the prompt delivery. The quality is still perfect, and the taste of the meat delicious!"
We continuously monitor the opinions of our mail order customers. To date, from around 1,000 replies, 88% described the quality as "excellent", with 12% saying they thought it was "good". On value for money, 99% thought it good or reasonable, and 99% of customers said they will buy from Graig Farm again. For full results of the questionnaires, please click here.
In October 2000, we were rated Top Meat Supplier in the Independent newspaper's Top 50 Organic suppliers.
A mail order customer described our sausages : "We have truly never had such wonderful sausages before ! The flavour was superb ...we had four cold the next day. I think the flavour was even better, with a splendid after-taste that lingered delightfully on the tongue and in the mind ! Congratulations on hitting the jackpot of sausages."
We have appeared in both editions of Henrietta Green's acclaimed book The Food Lover's Guide to Britain, and our mutton was featured in Sophie Grigson's Channel 4 Series "Sophie's Meat Course".We are also featured strongly in the "organic Bible"- Lynda Brown'sShoppers Guide to Organic Food.
The Times, in a comparison of farm-based sausages, gave our plain pork sausages 3 stars, and described them as "Truly excellent".
The Mail on Sunday's You magazine (18th July '99) gave them 3 1/2 stars and described them as having a "Clean, appestising, well balanced taste"
The Sunday Times selected Graig Farm in the top beef suppliers in the UK
Our chickens were voted Runner-up in the Mail on Sunday's quest to find 'Britain's Tastiest Chicken' August 1998
Our chickens have been described as:
"having a fine flavour and texture which the intensive industry cannot match" - Derek Cooper in the BBC Good Food Magazine;
"Pick of the Pack" - The Daily Telegraph;
"I have not tasted chicken of such quality since 1942" - Letter from a customer.
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