STOP PRESS: Green Valley Grocer and Vanilla Bean take top awards !

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Our lovely bakers - well 2 of them !

Monday night was a night of celebration for The Green Valley Grocer when we were awarded the prize as  Retailer: Local Food in the Mayor of Kirklees' Local Food Awards 2009-10.  Special mention must be given to the excellent folks at The Handmade Bakery who have shared this mad, exciting journey with us from the beginning, and who's commitment to their craft and who's excellent bread received special recognition by the Mayor of Kirklees, Cllr Julie Stewart-Turner.

Our friends at The Vanilla Bean were also honoured with the award for Local Menu - a testament to their efforts to source as much of the produce used in their cafe locally as possible.

Manager Carol Wood attended the glitzy award ceremony accompanied by board members Graham Mitchell and Jenny Stein and Local Food co-ordinator Helen Coxan. They were in good company with Janis, Amber and Natalie from VB, Dan and Johanna from The Handmade Bakery and friends from MASTT.  It was a great evening with opportunities to meet other local food producers and suppliers, including the lovely Mike from The Good Soup Co and Jackie, the magnificent school cook from Marsden Infants, who was commended for her use of local produce (from GVG) in her school menu. The icing on the cake for us was of course the announcement at around 10pm the The Green Valley Grocer had won such a great award. A true testament to the support of the shop's shareholders and customers.

The Award Certificate and Trophy are on show at the shop - pop in and have a look (and while you are there, we have fresh rhubarb in and an organic delivery due tomorrow, not to mention Dee's muffins and the HMB's fantastic NY Rye Special .......)