Our friendly asparagus growers, Richard and Ronda
Morritt from Low Moor Farm, Sand Hutton, provide us
with this absolutely amazing vegetable which grows
so well around the light and sandy soils of the Vale of
York. Now with nine acres of carefully-tended spears
(next year it will be twelve), the demand for their trade
has increased along with the volume of ours. Over
the past eight years we’ve been chopping, peeling,
steaming and roasting this salt-loving marine plant
which adorns our menu in various guises for example,
shallow-fried with York ham, or bubble and squeak,
or the glistening spears with a local Lowna Dairy
goats’ cheese with lovely local pale pink Spring lamb,
‘Yorkshire meets Provence’.
