Honouring the food heroes

Free-range turkey and geese farmers Tim and Lynn Lindley of Hostingley Farm, Thornhill, are pictured with, right, the Mayor of Kirklees, Coun Julie Stewart-Turner, and a trophy she presented them with for being Local Food Heroes.

By The Newsroom

Published 9th Apr 2010, 16:57 BST

Updated 9th Apr 2010, 16:59 BST

Also honoured in the first Kirklees Local Food Awards ceremony, at Huddersfield Town Hall, were Yummy Yorkshire, an ice-cream company based in Denby Dale, and Coddy's Farm of Huddersfield, which butchers and sells its own free-range meat.

An award for Local Food Menu went to the Vanilla Bean ice-cream parlour in Slaithwaite and Local Food Retailer was the Green Valley Grocer, also in Slaithwaite.

Growing Newsome, a campaign to encourage shared growing in the Newsome area of Huddersfield, was judged best Local Food Initiative. And there were awards for effort in schools for Berry Brow Infant and Nursery School; Newsome High School; St Aidan's C of E First School; and Reinwood Junior, Infant and Nursery.

CW 10/4/10

Mayor Kirklees