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58 HIGHFIELD FARM
DEC/JAN 2018 • farmers-mart.co.uk
LONGHORNS
CAUSE A
BRAND-NEW
RUMPUS IN
SLAITHWAITE
Chris Berry talks with Tim & Harry
Garside at Highfield Farm
BUYING and selling pigs, sheep and cattle
has been part and parcel of the Garside
family farming business for many years,
but now they’ve gone one step further by
causing a rumpus. That’s the name of their
artisan burger bar opened in summer 2017
in Slaithwaite just four miles from Holmfirth
and equidistant from Leeds and Manchester
where their beef is causing more than a stir.
The village was the setting for the TV
series ‘Where the Heart Is’ and is a fast
improving visitor attraction with the Hud-
dersfield Narrow Canal running through
its centre and a number of coffee shops,
tearooms and independent shops. The
Garsides have opened up in what quirkily
were once the public conveniences and
they are certainly all cisterns go right now
and flushed with pride at how Rumpus has
cleaned up great trade so far.
“It’s our home village,’ says Tim Garside
who farms up on the tops at the appropri-
ately named Highfield Farm. ‘And it’s doing
well attracting tourists. A lot of money was
spent on making the canal presentable
Pleased to work with the
team at Rumpus to produce
bespoke print, signs and graphics
and it has really helped. We’ve had quite
a learning curve and I wouldn’t like to get
too far ahead of ourselves, but we’ve really
made a great start.”
Rumpus came about following Tim’s son
Harry’s studies at Harper Adams. During
that time, he spent his middle year on the
Newbottle Estate in Oxfordshire where they
had Longhorn cattle.
“Harry brought some of their Longhorn
beef back home from their butchery
and it was 68767
mind
blowingly succulent and
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