Castle Farm Shop has become something of a phenomenon in this corner of Wales. Having been ‘delivery only’ in lockdown, they opened a physical shop last September, investing £2,000 in stock and the construction, and harvesting a homegrown network of suppliers: eggs and meat mainly come from their farm; cakes are baked by a teenager in the village; veg is from neighbouring farms; they source artisan mead from the nearby Wye Valley and even the cheese is Welsh.‘Some [suppliers] are friends, some are people we know from being farmers together and then people hear about you; it goes from there,’ Sian says.A mobile shop, installed in an old horsebox and taken to farmers’ markets, followed last summer and, as of last month, a third shop has.
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