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Meet the BMS Core Team 2021

The Black Mountains Smokery team has a core staff of just 9 that work on-site, with an extra 3 members that do some very important jobs from afar! The team then doubles (or even triples!) in our busy autumn months!
As you can imagine, this past year has been a little different... the imposing of lockdown meant that both Naomi and Corinne (essentially our entire production team) had to quarantine straight away. Leaving only three of us juggling many jobs, we commandeered our children, Hugh and Hetta to join the ranks and help keep up with an increased number of mail orders. Blyth moved in with our family for lockdown and together we formed one house and workforce so we knew we could be extra safe.
Having our children help out was a real saviour, but as time went on, our production team returned and we were able to take on new staff who have provided relief for us and our children and made things a whole lot easier to manage! Our team now looks very different as we enter a new year; we have taken on new full-time and temporary staff and we're all getting thoroughly stuck in!
Here is an introduction to our current team:

Blyth is a close family friend who has now been working with us for a full year. He was helping out wherever he was needed during lockdown but he has now properly reassumed his role in the office. He and Smokey Jo manage all things admin, so any new content online or on social media comes through Blyth. You'll get a chance to talk to him when you phone your orders in!

Corinne has become our fabulous and resilient mainstay leading our production team. We welcomed her back after her quarantine with delight and her cool-headedness and proficiency in production came as a great relief! She is bright and bubbly, organised and calm, and has brought many changes to streamline our processes.

Naomi has joined us for her student placement year from Harper Adams University where she studies BSc (Hons) Food Technology and Product Development. She's already had a very successful stint in production and now she is settled, she will have a chance to try her hand in other areas of the business. She is bright, giggly and very conscientious and a hugely welcomed addition to the team.






Kate has been our trusty bookkeeper for a few years now. She started working for us in between gardening jobs but we keep her so busy we fear there isn't much time for green fingers! She's a local gal and a part of the extended BMS family - she's been working from home during the COVID period and we can't wait to have her back on Fridays for a good old catch up in the office!
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Jo & Jonathan started Black Mountains Smokery in 1996. The smokery has grown a lot since then but remains a family-run local business with the same principles it started with.
Together, they are quite the team and it's only because they've done so well that they need all the extra hands!