E.Oldroyd & Sons Ltd. are producers and packers of high quality fruit and vegetables.
The family having 5 generations of experience in forced rhubarb production and each year tourists from far and wide flock to their farm at Carlton to see the rhubarb growing in the dark being harvested by candlelight. Visits can be arranged throughout Wakefield’s Rhubarb Festival, and group visits can be arranged from January to March.
The company has a high media profile, being one of the country's largest producers of rhubarb. Many celebrity chefs have made visits to the Oldroyd’s due to the resurgence in popularity of this traditional crop. Janet Oldroyd Hulme has become affectionally known by the media as the ‘High Priestess of Rhubarb’ and the company is listed as a Rick Stein Food
Hero Producer.

I dedicate this web site to all growers past and present, and their
devoted staff.
All horticulturalists over the years who have devoted themselves to the improvement of this plant and development of the industry, in particular the late Mr F G Smith, Mr J D Whitwell , Mr M R Bradley. The celebrity chefs and journalists who have helped promote the crop and develop new recipes, but most of all to my father, whose love for, and faith in, both the crop and the industry helped to ensure continued production of forced rhubarb for years to come.