In Yorkshire during Victorian times the cooking RANGE was at the centre of family and community life, providing cooking facilities, hot water and heat.

Our range is not the classic cast iron type seen at the centre of Victorian Family life but it does provide heat and cooking facilities, and we like to think that when out and about ROVING Yorkshire and beyond attending Events and Parties it provides a centre of attention and a place to gather around in much the same way as the Range did in the 19th Century.

So we christened it ROVER RANGE

( any similarity in name to another up-market rover is purely coincidental)

Call us if you are interested in hiring it for your event, we can also bring our mobile kitchen.

We were really pleased to be able to offer the guests at PapaKata’s wedding event on Saturday a taste of our Pizza’s and thank all those who purchased on the day which has helped us make a small donation to the Marie Curie Cancer Charity as shown below:-

Marie Curie Cancer Care says thank-you.
Thank you so much for your generous donation to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Thanks to supporters like you, every minute of every day someone with cancer
or a terminal illness is cared for by a Marie Curie Nurse.

The support we received meant that last year, we were able to care for
31,000 people free of charge in their homes and at our hospices.

Here’s your donation receipt:

Donation reference : D34223704

Charity name : Marie Curie Cancer Care

Charity registration number : 207994 (England & Wales) and SC038731
(Scotland)

Donation amount : £25.00

Gift Aid : £6.25

Thanks also to PapaKata from the Pizza a la Cart team

Cooking really good pizzas in a wood fired oven demands top quality very dry wood. We have secured this years supply from local wood fuel supplier FFT Lumber their wood is kiln dried hardwood which is ideal for our oven. Click on their logo to visit their website, they supply woof fuels for all appliances and also undertake tree surgery and garden fencing.

Forget London this summer, over priced, over crowded and over the Humber.

Think local and visit some of the regions great food festivals, we will be joining you at The Dales Festival of Food on the 5th, 6th and 7th May

and following that, the Malton Food Lovers Festival on the 19th and 20th May. Visit their websites to find out more about the great food stallls and entertainment available during those weekends. See you there !

We have been busy taking bookings for 2012, if you wish to make a visit with your school please get in touch with us as days are filling up fast.

There is a revolution happening… you know it, we all know it. Street Food, Great British Street Food served to the Great British public by passionate, hard working people.

Gone are the days where the Great British public are prepared to pay through the nose for rubbish food at outdoor events. They are stamping their feet and making themselves known and for that we thank them. Why? Because of their demands it gives fabulous people like us the opportunity to unhitch our trailers, roll up our sleeves and take part in the revolution, it’s exciting, it’s vibrant, it’s happening now.

Street Food Traders are a new breed of chefs, we have to think on our feet, we have to face our public, we have to have personality and we have to be tough. New days bring new challenges to overcome, no turning up in a kitchen with an army of staff for us, most of the time we arrive in a muddy field, get our wellies on and our heads down…

We work in the smallest of trailers, in front of the public and serve delicious, fresh, homemade food and always with a smile, no hiding in the back of a kitchen behind a team of waiters for us. We love to talk, we love to get into conversation about what we do and why we do it in turn providing our public with a story to tell and a memory of great food.

Northern StrEatshas been set up by food traders for food traders. We aim to provide a service, to push the word, to let event organisers know that the times they are a changin, that the Great British public are fed up of being served overpriced, rubbish food. They want access to us and not just at the odd festival, they want to see us regularly, they want pop up restaurants, they want pop up street food markets, they want the atmosphere and where do they want it? In the NORTH!

So if you are a food trader in the North and want to be part of Northern StrEats then get in touch, we can’t wait to hear from you.

Article courtesey of the great team at NorthernStrEats

If you dont blink you may see us in the vid of The Deer Shed Festival 2011, click below to play

Deer Shed Festival 2 from Deer Shed Festival on Vimeo.

The Pizza Farm has recently featured in the Yorkshire Life Magazine. As part of the magazines continuing efforts to promote all things local in the food arena writer Annie Stirk visited us for a morning in August. The article she wrote along with Photograps taken by John Cocks can be viewed here

We are really looking forward to the next two weeks as we have two great festivals coming up.

Firstly on the August bank holiday we will once again be at The Galtres Festival near Easingwold. If you have’nt been before go along, there’s great music and entertainment for all the family over 3 days ( Fri 26th August thru Sun 28th August 2011) , and of course great food including our Pizza Cart.

The following weekend we will be in York at the Peace Festival in Rowntrees Park, this is our first year at the event but they are celebrating 25 years of the festival so it should prove to be a great day ( Sunday 4th September).

Hope to see you at one, or even both of the events.

THE PIZZA FARM GETS TOP MARKS FOR EDUCATIONAL VISITS

THE PIZZA FARM near YORK has shown itself to be at the top of the class for educational visits by being awarded a Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge.

Awarded by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, the LOtC Quality Badge combines for the first time learning and safety into one easily recognisable badge for all organisations providing learning outside the classroom experiences.

The Pizza Farm spokesperson Mike Newland said “Being awarded the LOtC Quality Badge is a real coup for all the staff here as it shows that we offer young people the type of high quality learning experiences they really benefit from. We’re thrilled to get official recognition for our efforts and we look forward to welcoming even more children and young people from the local area to our Farm”

The LOtC Quality Badge was launched in 2009 as part of the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto, a national initiative to ensure young people are given more opportunities to have these experiences as part of the curriculum. The LOtC Quality Badge is awarded by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, the national voice for Learning Outside the Classroom. The Council also provides free online guidance and information for teachers on how to plan and organise high quality activities. The LOtC Quality Badge is designed to make it easier for teachers to identify providers of quality educational visits. Organisations will display the Quality Badge as a signal to schools that their venue has met required standards, so teachers do not need to carry out their own risk or quality assessments.

There are two routes to the LOtC Quality Badge.  Route 1 is for organisations offering activities that are considered relatively low risk and activities that take place wholly in controlled areas used by the public, such as museums, galleries, places of worship and zoos.  Route 2 is for organisations providing activities that require a degree of technical knowledge and experience beyond the lay person. For example, adventurous activities such as rock climbing and river and coastal fieldwork, where young people enter the water to make measurements.

Providers looking to gain the LOtC Quality Badge will need to meet a set of six quality indicators and will be supported through a developmental process by a package of on-line support materials, which will include guidance, good practice exemplars, downloadable templates and training materials.

Beth Gardner, Chief Executive of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom said:

“Educational visits are among the most memorable experiences in a child’s school life.  The LOtC Quality Badge offers teachers a guarantee that not only is a venue providing the sort of educational value that they can build on in class long after the visit but they also have the appropriate risk management structures in place.

Learning outside the classroom has many proven educational benefits. The LOtC Quality Badge will reduce red tape and provide assurance for schools, thereby ensuring that many more young people have memorable, exciting and valuable learning outside the classroom experiences. I congratulate [insert venue] on being awarded the LOtC Quality Badge.”

The LOtC Quality Badge is available to large and small organisations providing quality learning outside the classroom experiences and managing risk effectively. Over 750 organisations have already been awarded the Quality Badge, including museums, adventurous activity and field study centres, places of worship, art galleries, visitor attractions, student travel companies and farms.

For more information about the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge, please visit www.lotcqualitybadge.org.uk