The Balloon Tree

Award winning farmshop and cafe specialising in superfresh home grown fruit and veg, rare breed meats, homemade cakes and PYO with play area and farm animals.

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🍂 Autumn in a Bowl 🍂

Chef Emma 👩‍🍳 has taken some Home Grown Balloon Tree Pumpkins 🎃 and made this Pumpkin, Roasted Hazelnut & Ginger Soup. Just the start of seasonal pumpkin dishes. 🥣

#pumpkinseason #homegrownpumpkin #pumpkinsoup #pumpkinpatch #pumpkin

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Using only the finest Peach Sencha from our friends at @estateteaco we have added this Peach Iced Tea 🍑 🧊 🫖 to our summer drinks repertoire. ☀️ 🍹

#icedtea #peachicedtea #sencha #greentea #limewedge #summerdrinks #refreshingdrinks #farmshop #cafe #yorkfood

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Got time for a Key Lime? 😋

@theballoontreebakery have this fresh and light taste of summer in the cake counter at the moment.

Making time for a coffee and a cake whilst we do have some lovely sunshine is a summer essential.

#coffeeandcake #latteart #keylimepie #farmshop

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It’s not even August and we’re seeing some quite sizeable fruit on the pumpkins. 🎃 They’ve got another 2 months of growing yet! 💪
There is going to be some whoppers this year!

#pickyourown #pickyourownpumpkins #pumpkins #homegrown #farmshop #britishfarming #halloween

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It’s a short overlap in the growing season where you can get Balloon Tree Asparagus along side Balloon Tree Strawberries. Best to make the most of it.

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Jake & Henry have The Berry Barn open all week this week running the Jeeps 🚗

It’s a stunner of a week ☀️ to give them a try and you can take a leaf out of the lads book and have an ice cream 🍦 or coffee ☕️ while you are there.

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We are open all Bank Holiday Weekend as normal 9 am to 5 pm for the Cafe, and until 6 pm for the Farm Shop.

Whether you are coming for breakfast 🍳 or lunch 🥗, coffee ☕️ and cake 🧁, or picking up some top quality meats 🥩 for a Bank Hol BBQ we’ve got you covered.

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Burger of the Week 🍔 on the Cafe Specials Board...

A Pork & Black Pudding Patty topped with Crispy Smoked Bacon 🥓& a Fried Egg 🍳 - served on top of a Sesame Pretzel 🥨 with Homemade Ketchup and rather than chips... of course Hash Browns!

#breakfastburger #homemadeburger

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Homegrown Asparagus sat draining in the kitchen colander after a quick wash ready to be used in all sorts of seasonal dishes.

#asparagus #asparagusseason #homecooked #feildtofork #farmtotable #shoplocal

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Farmer Will has had his first pick off the start of this years Strawberry crop 🍓 this first lot will just be for sale in the Farmshop, we predict we are maybe 6 weeks away from the start of PYO for the year. All will be announced on our social media.

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It’s finally happening! - no more worrying about those dark clouds over head 🌧 no more holding onto your carrot cake in gale force winds 🌬 no more having to huddle up to your tea pot for warmth 🫖 as of tomorrow you can SIT INSIDE!!

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#nofilterneeded for these beauts.

After a slightly longer wait than usual. I have had the green (asparagus coloured) light 🚦from Farmer Will 👨‍🌾 that we will now have an uninterrupted daily harvest of Asparagus.

#asparagus #asparagusseason #homegrownasparagus #fieldtofork

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A soggy commute this morning - but we’re please to say the Jeeps will be open as planned for anyone visiting site today. ☁️

The weather does appear to be holding today which will work out beautifully for those of you after meeting up with others for a home cooked Sunday lunch.

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A walk down to our Strawberry tunnels yesterday afternoon got fruitful thoughts flowing.

Looking back on last years Instagram posts, we had our Strawberries in the Farm Shop from May 12th.

#strawberries #strawberryseason #farmshop #homegrown #nearlyready

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Leave all the hassle to us! Sunday Lunch served from 12 pm 🍖🥦🥕

#sundaylunch #homecooked #roastbeef #roastpork #locallysourced #eatlocal #alfrescodining #farmshop

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Fred having a spin in his new company car 🚗

If you’d seen Fred’s parking you would understand the need for the bumpers. 🤦

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Regis the Roulade watching from the sidelines as his Caterpillar Cake buddies fight it out.

#FreeCuthbert

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Open from this weekend are our new ride on Jeeps! 🚗

Come on down to the Berry Barn to give them a go!

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It’s only two more days until the Cafe reopens! ☀️ ☕️

We’ve shined the teapots, put beans in the grinders, and the brollys are up! Our team have got everything ready for your return visit to our Cafe Garden 🫖

We’re keeping all of our fingers crossed for some nice weather 🤞