A farm shop in Nottinghamshire is celebrating being named a champion in the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2022 celebrating "the most brilliant local businesses" across 28 counties across the UK. Winners in 27 categories, including best restaurant, family attraction and florist, were chosen out of 75,000 businesses nominated, with 765,000 votes cast.
Despite some tough competition, the urban guide to the countryside crowned Spring Lane Farm Shop in Mapperley Plains the best farm shop in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The family-run shop, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, is located on a working arable and beef farm and prides itself on selling high quality and home-produced food.
Shoppers can buy from a butchery counter, bakery and cheese and deli counter and there's a focus on locally sourced products. A nomination out-of-the-blue led to the farm shop making it to the final five, which included Harker's at Clipston-on-the Wolds, in Nottinghamshire, and Chatsworth Estate Farm Shop in Derbyshire. Customers then had to vote for their favourite.
