Val has over 40 years experience as a smallholder in the West of England. She currently runs a flock of 20 Ouessant sheep and keeps hens and grows lots of veg. She formally lived on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset and ran the award winning business The Woolly Shepherd from 2006-2012 but is now based in Cornwall where she has lived since 2013. Follow life on this permaculture based holding where there is never a dull moment
Friday, November 27, 2009
Devon Environmental Business Initiative......
I entered the awards after lots of arm twisting.....
I knew that lots of huge and top businesses entered......like the National Trust and Paignton Zoo (who won last year)......
So when we were shortlisted in the Environmental Goods and Services category I was amazed....
Off we went last night to the awards ceremony to collect our certificate for being a finalist....
But to my total shock we won the category....
We then watched the other categories being presented with their awards and thought wow!
And then the announced the overall winner for 2009.......
And it was 'The Woolly Shepherd'........and there was a picture of me and my logo up on the big screen......gobsmacked!
Thanks to everyone who reads the blog and supports us by buying our products......this is just amazing!
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11 comments:
Fantastic. I am very pleased to be able to be the first to congratulate you on the blog. You must be delighted and rightly so. Well done you. Gabrielle xx
Many, many congratulations. A well deserved win for you after all your hard work. You are such a good example of how business can/should be run. Well done.
I am so proud of you!
Congratulations
J.
congrats from a displaced Cornish person, via a recommendation from a Mouse.
Brilliant news Val - a very big well done from me too!
MrsL
xx
I am so pleased for you after all your hard work, I could cry. Bravo and well done... Blu xx
Congratulations Val, very much earned as well.
Hen
And many, many congratulations from East Sussex Val. Always good to know that cream still rises to the top!
Well done, you deserve this award for everything you do, not least in highlighting injustices in the world.
Caya
Thanks folks....i'm very touched by your comments!
Well done Val on winning these awards. You deserve it after all your hard work.
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