Our Story
WELCOME TO THE CHURCH FARM CRAFT COMPANY.
WHERE LOVELY THINGS ARE MADE.
We are Bec and Ade, a team of two middle aged humans with eclectic and varied career paths who've found their calling at the distillery on Church Farm and a very friendly and occasionally smelly Cockapoo, called Fred, who joins us in our exploits and endeavours.
Bec is the multi talented engine room of the business, she is the distiller, forager and candle maker. Ade is the creative force and business head, he founded the business and has created all of the brands, artwork, designs and continues to spill out ideas, some good and some, not so good!
The pottery is a shared passion, Ade does most of the clay and work and Bec loves to glaze. Hand labelling and hand finishing of all the products is a shared job, as is delivering all the lovingly crafted products out to all the lovely customers in our little van.
We live where we work.
We rent the original farm house on Church Farm (which is confusingly called Top farm) in Barlow, along with the distillery. Living on the farm for the past five years has taught us so much about the seasonality of produce and the shear hard work involved in keeping this great nation fed.
We love this land.
When we aren't on the farm we are either having a quick pint at our local or we are out in The Peak District, taking in the shear scale of it, the diversity and the abundance of nature, on our doorstep, for free! Ade even takes 6am swims in a remote Peak reservoir before the day begins. We love it and we love Derbyshire. Its our home and always will be.
