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Ethical Business

At The Feathers Inn, we believe passionately that the success of our business lies in the importance of high ethical standards to be practised at all levels.

Food tastes better in season.

Local produce is better to eat and better for the environment.

Our buying policy

We source all our food ethically and responsibly -Our menu changes on a twice daily basis which reflects our small scale artisan producers, suppliers and foragers. We speak to our farmers daily and build our menu around what is best and what is available at that time.

We source the majority of our food and drink from our region. Almost all our produce with is grown, reared, foraged and caught in the North East

The provenance and animal husbandry of our suppliers is very important to us and we regularly visit our famers and get to understand their business.

We support heritage produce and rare breed animals.

We are flexible as farming is never straight forward and not an exact science.

Awards

We won Best Pub at the Northern Hospitality awards 2010 for standards which are inspiring to the pub industry for food, drink and service. The Guardian selected us as their Eco friendly pub kitchen in their 2009 guide due to our sourcing policy. We won Local Food pub of the year award 2008, and have been a Garry Rhodes Local food hero 2007 & 2008. We have won two awards from the RSPCA 2010 and in 2009 for our ethical and cruelty free sourcing. Rhian received a personal award "food champion 2010" from the Publican magazine for his contributions to the pub food industry.

Animal welfare

The quality of the product is at the very heart of everything we do. Animal welfare is an essential aspect of ensuring quality. 

Our farmers work together with us to ensure we bring to the customer the finest food possible by using the greenest and animal welfare friendly methods.

We only work with farmers who put the welfare of their animal's first and show care and attention to their needs.

We know how it was slaghtered and how it was butchered.

We hope by using British Rose veal we are helping to raise awareness of this as a compassionate and viable source of meat and prevent the cruelty of shooting at birth male calves.  We support Compassion's Calf life - wanted not wasted campaign.   We hope to work with these farms to increase the awareness of this meat as an ethical product and encourage more people to try and support British Rose veal.

Our fish policy

We have an extremely strict fish buying policy - we never buy endangered species or fish in its breeding season.

The fishermen we work with come from small fishing communities on the North East coasts, and they only use sustainable methods of landing their catch from day boats, using lines, pots, creels or divers

We've been using lesser-known species of non-endangered fish for many years, such as gurnard, Pollack and razor clams. They benefit from plentiful stock levels, and by using these fish this takes pressure off the depleted stocks of endangered fish such as cod and haddock.

Lobster and crabs are all soured from day boats in the North Sea landed at Sunderland and North shields, deliver to the pub the next day. The lobsters are dispatched by cutting them in half down the middle, crab are killed prior to boiling by inserting a steel into their abdominal cavity on their underbelly. 

We follow closely the listings on the marine stewardship council website to ensure we are not using any fish that may be threatened. This for example has led to the removal of British eel from our menus. For full details of what we will and won't purchase, see the Marine Conservation Society's list at www.fishonline.org

All our fish suppliers have guaranteed to adhere to our fish buying policy guidelines.

This is the back of our menu. We use over 60 local suppliers and only a few are mentioned here.

The North East has clearly some of the finest producers in the counrty and we are very fortunate to be able to count on many as customers and as friends.It is the quality of the produce that enables us to produce the food that we do and it is to them that we owe thanks.

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 Here is just a few of our suppliers:

  1. Bywell Smokery 01661 844084 South Acomb Farm, Bywell, Stocksfield, Northumberland NE43 7AQ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  2. East Wingates Farm lamb Jimmy Bell 01670 788511 Longhorsley Morpeth Northumberland NE65 8RW This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it www.thelambman.com
  3. HADRIAN'S WALL BEEF AND LAMB John & Linda Ogle 01434 321702 Wydon Farm Haltwhislte Northumberland This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  4. Northumbrian Quality Meats Steve Ramshaw 01434 270184 Fax : 01434 270320 Monkridge Hill Farm, West Woodburn, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 2TU This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it www.northumbrian-organic-meat.co.uk
  5. Ravensworth Grange Farm Ann Gray Tel No. 0191 4877221 Fax. No. 0191 4877221 Ravensworth Grange, Kibblesworth , Gateshead, NE11 0HX This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  6. Wheelbirks Farm, ice cream Tom and Hough Tel/Fax - 01661 842613 Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7HY
  7. Gilchesters Organics Ltd Organic stone ground flour Andrew Wilkinson Tel No: 01661 886119Fax No: 01661 886693 Gilchesters Farm Hawkwell Stamfordham Northumberland NE18 0QL This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it www.gilchesters.com
  8. Northumberland Mussels Steve Oldale Tel No: 01289 332216 Mobile: 07896 348204 15 St. Helen's Terrace Spittal Berwick-upon-Tweed Northumberland TD15 1RJ
  9. OLEIFERA RAPESEED OIL Lisa Tel No: 01890 885 010 Borderfields Ltd, Coldstream Mains, Coldstream, Berwickshire, TD12 4ES This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  10. Trees Can't Dance Dan May Tel No: 07768 574141 Lane Head Coanwood Haltwhistle Northumberland NE49 0NU E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: www.treescantdance.co.uk
  11. Doddington Dairy Limited, Elaine/Margyy Maxwell +44 (0) 1668 283 010 Fax: +44 (0) 1668 283 033 North Doddington Farm, Wooler, Northumberland, NE71 6AN This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  12. BERWICK SHELLFISH COMPANY Douglas Flannigan 1289 304373 fax1289 331390 Dock Road, Tweedmouth, Berwick upon Tweed TD15 2BE. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  13. Carroll's Heritage Potatoes Ltd. Anthony and Lucy Carroll Tel No. 01890 883060 or 01890 883833 Fax. No. 01890 883060 Tiptoe Farm, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, TD12 4XD Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it www.heritage-potatoes.co.uk
  14. Lindisfarne Oysters Christopher and Helen Sutherland 01668 213870 Fax: 01668 219183 Mobile: 07754 733795 West House, Ross Farm, Belford, Northumberland, NE70 7EN. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  15. The Northumberland Cheese Company Ltd. +44 (0)1670 789798 The Cheese Farm Green Lane Blagdon Northumberland NE13 6BZ
  16. Sunny hill egg Christine Jackson Detchant Farm Belford Northumberland NE70 7PF This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  17. The Herb Patch Tel: 01207 562099 Brockwell House, Newlands, Ebchester, Co. Durham, DH8 9JA Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: www.herbpatch.fsnet.co.uk
  18. Tritlington Fresh Produce Nick Craigs Tel No: 01670 790223/786160 Fax No: 01670 790520 Tritlington Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland , NE61 3ED This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  19. Northumbrian Pedigree milk and eggs Paul Baynes Tel: 01434 673244 Marley Cote Walls Slaley Hexham Northumberland NE47 0DQ Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: www.northumbrianpedigree.com
  20. Cranstons John Lowman 01768 868680 Ullswater Road Penrith Cumbria CA11 7EH This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  21. Hunter house farm cheese Goat's cheese & yoghurts. Laura Thearle, 01833 640013 Hunter House Farm, Kelton, Middleton-in-Teesdale
  22. The Highland Cattle Centre
  23. Ridley's fish and game Corbridge