Royal Wedding Top Picks Are you celebrating the Royal Wedding on Saturday 19th May? Whether your hosting a garden party, enjoying an afternoon tea in the comfort of your own home, gathering the street together to join in the celebrations or simply putting your feet up in front of the television with a cup of tea and a slice of cake, we have some great top picks in store to help get your celebrations underway. Bakery From fresh cream scones and chocolate eclairs to pineapple creams and fresh cream doughnuts, it’s hard to avoid the bakery counter. With so much...

BBC Radio 4 debut It was a pleasure to feature on BBC Radio 4, talking all things farming, food and healthy eating and how our mission is to bring “fresh food and farming closer to the people”. Simon, Managing Director and his father Alan, Chairman explain the history of Becketts Farm and how it has evolved from dairy to intensive egg production through to arable today alongside our Farm Shop, Restaurant, Cookery School and Conference facilities. Ian, Retail Director chats about what current consumers are after, and what produce is in a typical customer’s basket and Hannah, Cookery School manager...

Family business celebrates 80 years of farming in Wythall For Becketts Farm, a family farming business in South Birmingham this year marks the celebration of their 80th year farming the land in Wythall – a mammoth milestone of which they are extremely proud. Whilst today Becketts Farm is known for its retail and hospitality business, with an award winning Farm Shop, Restaurant and much more, over the past 80 years it has grown and diversified alongside the community that it serves. The farm was originally purchased by Albert Beckett, a dairy farmer who moved from Shropshire with his small herd of...

St Basils Collection Point Becketts Farm is proud to be supporting St Basils youth homelessness charity for the 2nd year running. After last year’s overwhelming support from staff and customers we are delighted to be a collection point for items such as toiletries, long life food, brand new towels, bedding and much more. Please see the full list of items here. St Basils are a local charity and work with young people across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull, Worcestershire, Coventry and surrounding areas.  St Basils supports over 5000 young people per year, aged 16 – 25 who are homeless or at...

Shirley Aquatics move to Beckett’s Farm has proved to be the success the team had all hoped for. Now bigger and better then they have ever been the new leading provider of marine aquarium and fish tank supplies can boast to be one of the biggest superstores in Europe, after opening here at Becketts Farm last month. To help celebrate the move the team are holding an open weekend to invite new and existing customers the chance to see the full plans for the new store. Held over the weekend of the 25th and 26th November customers old and new...

We have raised £302.39 for Macmillan Staff at Becketts took part in our annual Great British Bake Off on Friday 29th September. There was a variety of cakes baked which included  a giant jaffa cake, salted caramel brownie, carrot and pecan cake, chocolate cupcakes, lime tray bake, rice crispy cakes and of course theultimate Macmillan cake which was announced the winner. The cakes were judged on presentation and taste by the Hospitality Director, Jim and Assistant Head Chef, Rob. In first place was the Chocolate cake topped with fudge and mint aero, in second place was the carrot cake topped...

July’s Team Building Events in the Orange Kitchen Somehow we are fast approaching the end of August. I thought I would just take a moment or two to look back on July, it proved to be a very eventful month! From running a range of our adult courses, children’s summer courses and LOTS of fun filled team build events. The first team we welcomed to The Orange Kitchen in July was 20 members of staff from NFU Mutual. They chose to do the Pasta & Bread making team build, and so split off into groups of four to rustle up...

Combine Harvesting Rapeseed Crop When you think of Becketts you may think ‘Farm Shop, Restaurant, Cookery School, Conference and even onsite partners such as Sima’. What you don’t think about is the land that is owned by Becketts and the farming that takes place; with over 1000 acres of land there is never a moment’s peace for the farm team. Work experience doesn’t end when you are in school and it is always good to learn new skills throughout life, so the marketing team at Becketts jumped at the chance to spend an afternoon on a combine harvester with the...