The new series of Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen Secrets has now started every Monday night at 8.30pm BBC2. He has been putting together some amazing recipes and has been using rapeseed oil a lot in his cooking. On the 4th April they will be showing his visit to Cotswold Gold and the day that he had [...]
We would like to thank everyone that has helped or been a part of Cotswold Gold Ltd in the last few month. We have moved from the kitchen table, to overloading and snapping in half the dinning room table and now in our final resting spot in out factory on the farm. The first year [...]
We are very please do announce that we have just won two awards this week. The Business Awards 2010 Entrepreneurs of the Year and Universities SW Enterprise, Young Entrepreneurs of the year 2010 Lorry picking up the award Below if part of the RAC’s news bulletin: “We are delighted to report that on 16 November [...]
After a good harvest we have been working hard to get next years crop in the ground. This is always at the mercy of the weather. This year we have managed do reduce our carbon foot print by direct drilling all the rape. This helps to reduce the amount of fuel that we have to [...]
Last weekend we were at Oxford Foodies Festival and a few of the chefs used our oil in the main demo area. This helped sales and was great to see big names like the Iron Chef using it and saying go out and buy it. I hope that we can add some more faces after [...]
We have had a good run with out rain but it was never going to last. The heavens have opened and everything is sodden. This is not all bad as we have started to drill next years rape and this rain will do it a world of good. All wheat in and just the spring [...]
We are now in the middle of harvest, which is our busiest time of year. We grow the crop all year and over the next two months we hope for the weather to hold off and the sun to come out so we can crack on with harvesting our crops. Our rapeseed has now all [...]
The rapeseed harvest has begun. On Monday this week we finished our barley and started on the rape. After a hard year for rape to grow with a very dry period in September/ October last year our yields will be down but a quality will remain. The farm was going flat with the lads on [...]
The farm is about to be kicked in to action with harvest fast approaching. We are set to start cutting barley next week with the rape following straight after. This is a new page that we hope you will follow to see what is going on at the farm and so we can let you [...]
