Former Deputy PM John Prescott visits The Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes for that Channel 5 TV programme shining the spotlight about the heritage of quality food production and farming in the region.
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With its growing portfolio of Yorkshire dairy foods, the Wensleydale Creamery’s leading Yorkshire manufacturer status and 1,000-year history of handcrafting cheese from the Dales has caught a persons vision of national film crews.
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Mr Prescott saw c = continual reporting with the Creamery thorough documentary series, Made in Yorkshire, which discovers the secrets behind the region’s most iconic foods.?
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The charismatic politician, who has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and was the MP for Hull East for Forty years, journeys across the region for Created in Yorkshire, understading about and achieving in the intriguing processes of Yorkshire food production. This included meeting cheese-makers hard at work producing Yorkshire Wensleydale to grace the shelves of supermarkets and independent retailers over the UK and worldwide.
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The Creamery also recently welcomed JB Gill, former JLS band member turned farmer, to utilise his hand at making Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese and visit several of the Yorkshire farms which supply the milk to make its excellent dairy range in the Springtime within the Farm series, airing on?Channel 5 at 8pm on Wednesday.
The programme celebrates the challenging work of farmers surrounding the country battling anytime to keep providing food to the nation’s tables. JB visited dairy farmer and Wensleydale Creamery supplier, Kevin Clarkson, that you follow the journey of Yorkshire milk from farm through which Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. This saw him how to choose, and in some cases trying his hand at, the cheese-making process.?
David Hartley, MD along at the Wensleydale Creamery, said: “We’re passionate and proud of our Yorkshire heritage and provenance and were happy to welcome Channel 5’s film crews, as well as presenters JB Gill and John Prescott, to showcase and celebrate our rich cheese-making historical background and the level of food production and farming in the market.
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“Yorkshire to be a food brand is gaining notoriety all over the UK and Europe due to the world-class offering, evidenced via the attention it’s warranting using a national stage, so we hope the continent will tune into Channel 5 recently to point out their support for region’s incredibly special food credentials”.
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Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese has a historic pedigree, first stated in Wensleydale in 1150 by Cistercian monks. The Wensleydale Creamery continues to handcraft cheeses using milk from Yorkshire farmers, employing over 200 people and contributing
