This festive season we've a whole host of stocking filler ideas here at Duchy to help solve gift-giving dilemnas for all age groups. Our rich organic fruit cake with marzipan icing is crafted into miniature bite-sized Christmas Thumb Cakes - mouthwatering morsels that make just the right size gift for tucking into Christmas stockings!

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Make someone's St Andrew's Day by presenting them with this Duchy Originals Highland Shortbread Tin.

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This month we have teamed up with Organic Garden & Home Magazine to give readers the opportunity to win one of our fantastic Organic Gardener's Gifts, each worth £50.00. The perfect present for organic gardening enthusiasts, this gift features a Duchy Hand Trowel made using wood from the Duchy of Cornwall Estate, and a selection of our Organic Vegetable Seeds, along with some tasty organic treats (perfect for keeping in the shed for a quick snack!) while the crested wooden box can be used afterwards to store seeds or tools.

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Nothing warms the body more than a bowl of hot porridge in the morning.

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We are delighted to announce that the winner of our Cornish competition to create 'A Cake Fit For The Prince' for his 60th birthday is Hailee McColl, a five year old pupil from St Petrocs CofE Primary School, Bodmin in North Cornwall.

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Try our brand new range of irresistible organic chocolate 'Bezants', named after the gold bezant coins which feature in the Duchy of Cornwall Coat of Arms and the Duchy Originals crest. They are infused with a choice of four indulgent flavours to suit all occasions and palates.

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Winter is officially here - and the days are feeling much colder, darker and shorter! Heat yourselves on the inside with our NEW Duchy Originals Organic Chicken Mulligatawny Soup, based on a recipe from the British Raj.

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Keep yourselves warm this week with our delicious range of sausages - perfect on sticks by the campfire or tucked into bread rolls with our fabulous Farmhouse Chutney for a more substantial snack.

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Our Duchy Originals mulled cider recipe makes a deliciously warming drink to sip on a chilly Autumn night, especially after a cold Trick or Treat outing over Halloween.

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We are proud to unveil a delicious NEW organic strawberry preserve made from strawberries grown on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

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Celebrate National Apple Day with us with Duchy Originals Organic Dry Reserve Cider.

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Autumn has arrived and the days are getting shorter. Choose from the Duchy collection of hearty, fresh organic soups to keep you warm this week. The Duchy Originals Fresh Soups range includes over 8 different varieties but this season try our Spinach Soup with Nutmeg and Sage, Tomato Soup with Rosemary and our Beetroot Soup with Dill, all of which are thick, delicious and wholly organic.

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We are delighted that our Duchy Originals Organic Medium Cut Seville Orange Marmalade has been selected as the winner in Good Housekeeping Magazine's Expert Taste Test in their October issue.

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Looking ahead to sunnier days, we'll start harvesting as soon as the dew is off the crops and the combine has had its daily service, which involves cleaning air filters, checking oil and greasing all the bearings. Then we'll continue harvesting until at least 10 pm, sometimes working into the early hours.

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The farm animals tend to react to the rain in different ways. For example, the lambs have been wandering up and down the hedgerows with their heads down, bottoms to the wind, trying to get some shelter. They are not putting on as much weight as they usually do at this time of year but this will change when the sun comes out. The cows have been collecting quite a lot of mud on their feet which means more cleaning in the milking parlour for us! And the pigs simply take shelter when it rains and come out again when it stops - which seems quite sensible really!

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Celebrate The Soil Association's Organic Fortnight (6th -21st Sept) with our Soil Association Organic Food Award-winning products. These highly prestigious awards are for two of our premium bakery products, two of our bacons and for our Ale, thereby perfectly illustrating the consistently high standard of excellence that we work hard to achieve across all our product ranges.

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We are very proud to announce that we have been awarded two Highly Commendeds and three Commendeds in the 2008 Soil Association Organic Food Awards this year! These highly prestigious awards are for two of our premium bakery products, two of our bacons and for our Ale, thereby perfectly illustrating the consistently high standard of excellence that we work hard to achieve across all our product ranges.

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Duchy Originals Organic Select Ale, a dark full-bodied organic beer, has won the title of World's Best Standard Pale Ale (Rye) at the World Beer Awards 2008 - run by UK based Beers of the World Magazine.

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The Duchy Originals Bakery in Launceston played host recently to the Cornish county finals of the Food & Drink Manufacturing 'Schools Challenge'. Cornish county finalists were asked to come up with a new dish, from initial concept through to the finished product. Six teams from three different schools in Cornwall were brought together for a full tour of the Duchy Originals bakery in the morning, followed by a challenge to create a product which brought "A taste of Cornish summer" to life.

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Our new website has been named 'Best Designed Website' at the APA Creative Awards 2008. Our website was praised for being "fresh and original" and for having "fascinating content" - we hope you agree! Explore our website and discover our philosophy and beliefs.

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What better way to enjoy the summer than sitting in the garden with a traditional English afternoon tea?

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Our new organic summer tomato soup is a light and refreshing soup made using tomatoes and finely diced cucumber with a special blend of white wine, parsley and basil.

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Tom Aikens, Chef at Tom's Kitchen, recommended Duchy Originals Wholegrain Mustard with Honey in The Observer Food Monthly Newsletter. He said "Duchy is a good brand - not just because it's organic and was one of the first organic companies, but because they make very good food. In the wholegrain mustard, they use a good-quality grain."

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Stella Magazine has selected the Duchy Collection Bergamot & Lime Bar Soap as one of their favourite products 'with pure ingredients for a natural high'.

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Marcus Wareing - celebrity chef at London's Petrus restaurant, which holds 2 Michelin stars - said in The Daily Mail on Saturday this week that our Duchy Selections Free Range Pork Sausages are:"moist and meaty, with a reassuring 87 per cent pork content."

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For a refreshing drink, BBC Easy Cooks recommended our Strawberry Mint Cordial. They said "the intense aroma of freshly picked mint comes as a surprise when you pour this cordial into a glass and the flavour is lovely and minty too, which makes it really refreshing."

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Looking for inspiration for a little taste of summer this weekend? What about our delicious Lemon Tart made in our very own bakery in Cornwall?

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Duchy Originals sponsored the 'Best Producer' category at the fifth annual Observer Food Monthly Awards, held earlier this year at London's Shoreditch House. Duchy CEO Andrew Baker was delighted to present winner Catherine Moran with the prestigious award for her "Sweet Slow Stuff" range of delicious home made desserts.

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