 History Where to start with history? In a very near history my family have been involved in producing quality as a matter of instinct and this would just be a given. Their involvement was throughout, what is now known as, the food chain, as cattle and sheep dealers, farmers and butchers. This can be traced directly to the 1620s. As per picture above, this is my great uncle Thomas, Beatrix Potter’s trusted shepherd. The family were in the same trades, but obviously through the mists of time not quite as well documented, right back to Norwegian Vikings. This ancestry can be traced by my grandfather’s name Storey, which was Story, and that was originally in Viking times Sturi, what roughly translates farmstead with wet inby land.
This history is inextricably linked to the Herdwick sheep (herd – meaning the group; yck – meaning large estuary). It is alleged by certain people that the Herdwick was brought by the Viking raiders, farmers and traders, but it has been recently shown that they were taken from here, not brought here. All this is food at its most basic level, which is my prime motivation, and which should be the prime motivation for all food. “Back to basics” is a little statement, but a big ask, but where I come from and where we all should be going to.
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