Recently, we counted all our local products and suppliers and found that we have eight from within the parish, another fourteen within about a 12 mile radius and a further fourteen from the far reaches of Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and the rest of Devon. By listening to you, our customers, we know that buying local food is important to us all, as well as being able to buy a huge range of value for money groceries in the shop. We’re lucky to live in an area of the country where there is so much good food and drink and we aim to bring you the best, but if you have any ideas about any new products that we may have missed please let us know so we can do something about it. At the end of March we will be at the Parish Council’s Local Food and Sustainability fair http://www.payhemburyparishcouncil.org.uk/Local_Food_and_Sustainability_Fair_29949.aspx where you can find out more about some of our local heroes and, more importantly, do some tasting!
If you scurry along to the shop in the next few days you will find our chillers stocked 
with the very local Tuck Mill beef. This is Devon Red Ruby beef which has been reared by Jon Carden in the meadows by the river Tale. It has been properly hung, is full of flavour and always disappears off the shelves very quickly, so you need to be quick to choose your favourite joints and steaks; we’ll also have a good supply of mince and casserole beef.
If you’re looking to impress the judges at the Flower and Bulb show with your 
scrumptious Scotch eggs, your splendidly savoury quiche or your sumptuous Swiss Roll then using our local free range eggs from Farstrete near Whimple may just give you the edge, all the extra-large ones have been double-yolkers recently. Good luck!
Mary Whiting
