MARKET DRAYTON FARMERS MARKET: Guernsey gold

Live Natural
Cheshire Yogurt
We are a first generation family farmers based on the outskirts of the picturesque village of Tarporley in Cheshire. In 2004 we set up Tiresford Guernsey Gold with the intention to provide the best yogurt and cheese that we could, and show off the top quality milk of our award winning herd of pedigree Guernsey cows. We hope you will enjoy the results ...

The milk from the Guernsey cow is a sweet, creamy milk, as anybody who has ever tasted it will testify, and this means that no sugar (or God forbid, artificial sweeteners) are necessary to sweeten the yogurts that we produce. Added to this is the fact that although our yogurts are a wholemilk product they are lower in calories than many of their 'low fat' counterparts. The yogurts are also 'live' meaning that as well as retaining their superior taste and quality, there are the substantial benefits of a mild pro-biotic culture which helps aid digestion. Our 'Natural' yogurt, a winner of the silver award at the Nantwich Show, is made with just the milk and the culture.

We provide four flavours of yogurt; Strawberry, Raspberry, Black Cherry and Natural each with their own unique taste and qualities.
The Natural yogurt, which forms the base for the fruit yogurts, contains milk and culture with no other added ingredients.
The cultures used are mild Bio Cultures and consist of:
Streptococcus Salivarius ssp Thermopilus
Lactobacillus Acidophilus
Bifidobacterium Longum.
The fruit in the fruit yogurts is stabilised to prevent secondary fermentation, using a standard 'jamming procedure'.

The ingredients are listed in order of percentage of inclusion.
Fruit
Raw Cane Sugar
Water
Pectin
Natural Flavouring
Citric Acid
Guar Gum

The fruit content is never less than 7.5% of the fruit yogurt
Our fruit yogurts are available in 140g pots (15g more than most similar products) with our Natural yogurt available in 400g large pots. We are also looking at making the fruit flavours available in the larger pots in the future.

Tiresford was also recommended by the 'Savvy Shopper' in the Daily Telegraph as a place to buy additive-free yogurts. Rose Princes article said 'Guernsey milk contains a very high proportion of healthy beta-carotene, which is actually visible in this delicious, golden-coloured yogurt.

As well as our range of yogurts we are also able to offer a Brie cheese developed from Guernsey Milk.

We call this Golden Brie due to the distinct yellow colour of the cheese, which deepens as the summer progresses. This has proved a big hit with customers at Farmers' Markets who are attracted both by the natural colour of the cheese, and the unique properties of Guernsey milk. These properties ensure that unlike most other cheeses of this kind, the product continues to mature and develop even when cut into!
In addition the Golden Brie has also been successful beating both the French and Somerset Brie at the Bath and West Agricultural Show.