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Who we are
About the farm
We farm at Cold Overton on the Leicestershire–Rutland border; our family business was founded in 1948 by Fred and Ivy Gates, the fourth generation is now involved, and our Gates Garden Centre stands next to the farm. On our mixed farm we keep 125 breeding cows (mostly pedigree beef Shorthorns, with some Aberdeen Angus) and 250 Texel and Kerry Hill ewes, mainly on pasture and home-grown forage, grow wheat and oats on our arable land and have planted around 70 acres of new woodland. Our beef and lamb are sold at the butchery counter of the award-winning farm shop in our garden centre and at our Gates Woodlands farm shop in Hinckley; in the garden centre we also offer plants we grow ourselves ("Grown at Gates").
Snapshots
Image rights: Gates Farm Shop
What we grow
Food crops
Here we list the crops we grow for food. Open a row and we show you what we process from it and which of our products we sell.
Non-food
Nursery / garden centre
- Plants, seedlings & seeds
- Grown at Gates
- Plants, seedlings & seeds
What we raise
Livestock
Here we list the animals we keep, with breed and headcount. Open a row and we show you what we process from them (milk, meat, eggs, honey…) and which of our products we sell.
Cattle (125 head) – Angus, Beef Shorthorn (125 head)
- Beef
- Beef
- Beef
Sheep (250 head) – Kerry Hill (250 head), North Country Cheviot, Texel
- Lamb & mutton
- Lamb & mutton
- Lamb & mutton
More of our products
- Bread & bakery
- Bread & bakery
- Cheese
- Cheese
- Fruit
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Vegetables
Processing & crafts
Bakery
Sales channel
- Farm-gate sales
- Gastronomy
- Retail
Product categories
Product groups
Farming method / certification
Community farming
Languages spoken
EnglishLocation
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