This month it’s time to start talking turkey! You’ve probably read in the press that turkeys are likely to be in short supply in supermarkets this year due to the lack of skilled workers arriving from Europe to process them. Well we are delighted to say that when our previous source told us he wasn’t able to supply us any longer our resourceful Turkey Team went to visit Rosamondford Farm in Perkins Village near Aylesbeare. They rear their day old chicks on the farm feeding them local wheat and vegetables with no additives and the bronze
turkeys can roam freely around the paddocks and roost in comfortable barns. We will be stocking these turkeys in our shop but you will need to place an order to secure yours. All information about prices and sizes will be available in the shop, you will be able to order either bronze or white turkeys and either a whole bird or a crown.
Our local cake maker Mrs Trude of Hoop Farm cakes finally hung up her whisk and pinny last month after years of baking, so now we have a new cake maker on board. Foxcombe Bakehouse based on a farm near Okehampton makes cakes using real ingredients and traditional recipes and they use only plastic-free packaging. We are stocking a good variety of their cakes from coffee and walnut to lemon 
refresher; they say they make a cake to suit everyone, we’re looking forward to working our way through their whole range to find our particular favourite!
Finally we find that in our shop, just like in every other shop, customers are using cards to pay for their shopping. We all do it because it’s easy, quick and convenient and here to stay but it does come at a cost. For every card transaction in our shop we pay a fee, this amounts to a total of about £250 each month and if you use your card for small purchases the fee we pay will eat up any profit we would have made on the sale. If you are able to dig out your small change for these purchases it would help us. We’d like to reassure you that we will always continue to be determined to keep all our prices as low as we can while filling the shop with all the things that you need and like to buy from fresh local food to good value staples.
Mary Whiting
