Food is very important at The Wold Cottage, with great emphasis on locally sourced ingredients. Indeed many of the fruit and vegetables are produced in The Wold Cottage garden!
Breakfast and evening meals are served in the elegant dining room which overlooks the garden, and Katrina and Derek are licensed to sell local beers as well as offering a selection of modestly-priced wines.
Katrina is an accomplished cook and has appeared on BBC TV's 'Ready Steady Cook' as well as receiving the 'George Award'.
Here's what she says about her suppliers: "We have bacon & sausage from a local butcher 5 miles away, H Stockdale & son, a family business which has been in Hunmanby for over 100 years, recently taken over by a local lad who makes his own Old English sausage from pork. Eggs collected by my father in law from our friend's Gill & Tom Mellor at Hunmanby Grange, 3 miles away, where they have 20000 free range hens. A Yorkshire black pudding is used, called Aunt Doreen's from Thirsk."
"Tomatoes are picked from our own greenhouse when in season! Local organic flour grown at Foston on the Wolds is delivered by Caroline & Tim Seller's so I can make fresh bread every morning, they also supply an excellent Organic Honey Roasted Muesli with raisins which contains Jumbo oats, wheat flakes, raisins, coconut, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, honey & sunflower oil - very popular! Yorkshire Tea from Harrogate.
Vegetables are freshly picked from our own garden in season, for example: potatoes, courgettes, beetroot, carrots, mange tout, spinach, parsnips, leeks & dwarf beans. Flowers from the garden are freshly picked for the rooms in the house. Bobby bees Honey from Mere Farm Burton Fleming- 2 miles away. I make my own raspberry & strawberry jam & marmalade. Yorkshire Butter from Arla Foods, Leeds made in Settle.
Blue Keld water is offered in the rooms which is from a local spring at Hutton Cranswick near Driffield Yorkshire curd tart from the local bakers is often offered with Yorkshire tea on arrival, Local fish is offered including Filey Bay crab, locally smoked haddock, smoked salmon & kippers - great breakfast favourites."
"Even our heating & hot water is locally grown as we heat the main house & cottages with a straw burner & all the straw is grown on the farm!"