It is small enough to fit on the average driveway and has been designed to help farmers and other food producers start up in business. Derby-based MCE Engineering has converted a box van from North Wales-based Ifor Williams Trailers and, …
Powerful images of Snowdonia’s farmers in new book
The Farmers’ Union of Wales has teamed up with renowned London photographer ChrisClunn to produce a bilingual book of evocative portraits of 61 farmers of all ages living and working on traditional family hill farms in the Snowdonia National Park. …
New Farmers’ Market for Cardiff city centre
THE alluring sights and smells of sizzling meats, sugar-coated cakes and home-baked breads came to the capital yesterday as a new farmers’ market was officially launched. Hungry shoppers and curious tourists …
New weekly farmers’ market for Cardiff city centre
A NEW weekly farmers’ market is set to start selling local produce in the heart of the city centre from next month. The first Cardiff Castle Quarter Farmers’ Market will take place in the High Street on Thursday, …
Market town makes a stand against a faceless world of mall shopping
Some markets, like Bargoed in the Rhymney Valley, have even disappeared completely through the emergence of hi-tech retail parks or been downsized, such as the one at Chepstow racecourse. Yet, others such as the farmers’ market held in places like …
Signing off for the weekend: Tolkien, and Cardiff Vegetarian Festival 2011
Cardiff just has loads of new vegetarian and vegan caterers starting and doing well through forums like the Riverside and Roath Farmers markets, setting up in the suburbs, or working online. “One of the things I love about the festival these last two …
Markets slammed for ‘appalling’ TB biosecurity failures
APPALLING biosecurity lapses by farmers have been filmed at three Welsh livestock markets in an area suffering from widespread TB infections. As a result animal protection group Viva! – which says it has thousands of supporters in Wales – is urging the …
Llangattock blazes the trail to a greener way of life
A typically pretty east Powys village is the setting for one of the most exciting community transition projects in Wales. What makes Llangattock Green Valleys so impressive is the breadth of vision of the scheme, …
Rural stress projects look for more Assembly cash
A RURAL stress initiative that reaches out to farmers at livestock markets has completed its first phase. Rural Support Wales (RSW), which is co-ordinated by the Institute of Rural Health, Newtown, has run for six years. …
Fiery Welsh sauce ready to spice up Selfridges’ shelves
“We’ve come a long way since the beginnings in 2009 and when I look back to the farmers’ markets of then to the store shelves now I am extremely proud of our achievement,” said Mr Llewellyn. The Welsh entrepreneur and his team will be in Selfridges …
