Our Story

The Jackson family have been farming at Carnaby House Farm since 1898. Since early 1979, we have grown Winter Oilseed Rape successfully and have consistently produced good yields on our Yorkshire Wold land. In the latter half of 2006 we started to research the production of cold pressing oil seed rape to produce rape seed oil for the culinary market.

We produce Extra virgin, cold pressed rapeseed oil that has been grown on the farm, pressed on the farm and is bottled on the farm. We are proficient and experienced growers of oilseeds as well as having a total commitment to quality and full traceability of our products.

How we produce our oil

The Oil seed rape is sewn in late August, early September by Paul. It flowers during May and June creating fields of bright gold flowers. When the flowers die off the pods form. It is in these delicate pods that the seeds develop. The crop is harvested in early August and the tiny little black seeds are collected and stored on the farm ready to be pressed into Gold from the Wold.

The oil seed rape is fed into a hopper above the press. The beauty of cold pressing means all the goodness is left in the oil. The rape is simply mechanically squeezed to get the oil out of the seeds which keeps the goodness in, unlike other cooking oils which are refined, bleached and de-odorized at high temperatures to extract the maximum oil which can affect their goodness and taste.

The oil is then allowed to settle out for approximately 28 days to filter it, leaving behind the golden oil. It is then carefully bottled by hand, all done by us at Carnaby House Farm.
 

Why should you buy our oil?

Gold from the Wold is cold-pressed rather than heat-treated, meaning it is 100 per cent extra virgin oil rather than the blended variety usually found in the supermarket. After pressing Gold from the Wold is filtered slowly and allowed to settle. All this is done on the farm, just down the road from the fields on the Yorkshire Wolds where it was grown.  Gold from the Wold is produced from the first pressing, giving the seed its full essence.

The Rapeseed oil we produce is packed full of goodness and has approximately half the saturated fat content of Olive oil.  It contains vitamin E a powerful antioxidant and it is full of Omega 3, 6 and 9 in the quantities nutritionists recommend.