Working with and learning from other businesses
The Peak District National Park Authority provides funding towards a number of themed projects that local businesses may want to participate in.
Food from the Peak District
Developing
and promoting
the distinctive food and drink produced within the Peak District, and linking local tourism businesses
with locally sourced food and drink. Discover new market outlets for your products and offer visitors a taste of the Peak District.
Peak
District Foods
Peak
District Cuisine
An accreditation
mark for dishes served by local restaurants,
cafés,
pubs and guest accommodation that have their principal ingredients sourced from Peak District farms
and food producers. Create new menus and recipes from locally sourced ingredients.
Peak
District Cuisine
Peak
District Butchers 
Supports butchers
who buy their beef and lamb from Peak District
farmers
who help look after the Peak District landscape. Meat sold under the scheme will have been reared on identified farms that care for the Peak District
landscape and are participants in a recognised whole farm stewardship scheme.
Peak
District Butchers
Peak
District Environmental Quality Mark
An
award for businesses who have good environmental
practices and contribute to the conservation of the Peak District National Park by using products or
services from land managed for conservation within the National Park.
Peak
District Environmental Quality Mark
Local
Farmers' Markets
Sell directly to your customers. Buy directly from local producers and farmers. Join the successful growth of farmers' markets and benefit
from new networks.
Calendar of Farmers' Markets
Great
Peak District Fair and Food Fest – Buxton
Take
advantage of this annual October
event which is a combination of craft fair, farmers’ market, cultural activity and tourism promotion
at the geographical centre of the Peak District.
Peak
District Dairy Wagon
The Peak District Dairy Wagon is a mobile dairy processing
facility, where farmers and their families from the Peak District and surrounding areas can learn dairy
skills.
Peak
District Dairy Wagon
Peak
Choice
A co-operative of local farmers who suppy lamb and beef reared to the highest
standards of animal welfare and husbandry. All the farmers are also members of a recognised Farm
Assurance Scheme.
Peak
Choice
Arts
in the Peak
manages the ‘New Environmental Creative Industries’ project. The idea is to generate new economic activity by encouraging creative industry businesses of many different
kinds to develop distinctive products and services, which are rooted in the creative use of the special
environment of the Peak District.
Arts
in the Peak
Business and the Environment linked through
Small Scale Tourism
(BESST)
BESST is a demonstration
project to provide ideas and working methods that
can be applied in other
rural areas. It is a transnational project with partners from the Peak District, Sweden and Norway.
BESST
