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Entries are listed in three categories PRODUCERS are shown in sub-categories for  Bakery, Cereals and Pasta  PRODUCERS  Beverages  RETAILERS  Ice Cream  RESTAURANTS, CAFÉS,  Meat and Fish and STALLS  Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Preserves  Representing Producers

PRODUCERS

BAKERY, CEREALS and PASTA

1) Casa del Cymru . They also supply restaurants Llysteifi Lechryd, Cardigan, SA43 throughout . 2NX Tel: 01239 683156 Mob: 07988 874876 2) Cegin Pantygwin Website: www.casadelcymru.co.uk Pantygwin, Cellan, SA48 8HL Email: [email protected] Tel: 01570 423651 Artisan pasta from Simon and Gina Sarracini Rhonwen Thomas bakes cakes and quiches of Pope, Italian tradition with Welsh ingredients. many types and flavours made to order, and Seven flavoured pastas including spinach and caters for events. Bread, pies, quiches, cakes cracked black pepper, and and citrus; at Market every 3rd Saturday in the eight raviolis, such as Perl Las cheese with month. (See entry for Llansawel Market under chives and walnuts and smoked Retailers) salmon with sweet red pepper, dill, ricotta and lime. The Sarracini Popes use organic flour 3) Glanbrydan – The Cottage Bakehouse and Welsh eggs, and sell at farmers’ markets Pont Isaac, Cwmifor, Llandeilo SA19 7AP. Tel: in Ceredigion, , Swansea and 01558 822846 Cardiff, and delicatessens in , Website: www.glanbrydan.com Cardigan, Narberth, Haverfordwest and Email: [email protected]

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Sam and Wilf Winter’s bakery producing tasty programme, more than 125 acres of woodland artisan pies, , buns, cakes, paella. are grown and managed on the farm. Catering at events too. The Gin Haus in Market Street, Llandeilo, Dryslwyn 5) Popty Patagonia Bakehouse Shop and Cwmdu Shop and Post Office sell Crescent Road, Llandeilo Cottage Bakhouse products. Tel: 01558 822637, 07794 417229 Website: 4) Hafodneddyn Feeds www.poptypatagoniabakehouse.co.uk Hafodneddyn Farm, Broad Oak, Llandeilo Email: SA19 7AE. Tel: 01558 668207, 07977 913469 [email protected] Information from Anne-Marie Royal Cecilia Pruden’s baked goods include Website: www.hafoneddynfeeds.co.uk Lithuanian rye bread, made with organic flours, Email: [email protected] milk, black treacle, butter, yeast, sea salt and For animals rather than humans – seeds. This bread stays fresh for a Hafodneddyn Feeds is a family-run business long time, is filling and packed with flavour, based at Hafodneddyn Farm, open Moday – and is one of the local specialities often Friday 8.30am-5pm, Saturday 8.30am-12noon. available from Y Pantri, 83 Rhosmaen Street, Oats and grown on the farm are Llandeilo, and Dryslwyn Community Shop. ingredients in the range of feeds formulated for Other tasty breads include Irish wholemeal, beef cattle, , horses and pigs. Wherever spelt, spelt and rye, and a rye bread made with possible local suppliers are used, and the organic flour and organic pumpkin and electricity on the farm is generated using solar sunflower seeds. Cakes, quiches and gluten- panels. As part of the sustainability free products also. Cecilia grew up in

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Argentina, and brings Patagonian culinary 7) Jacobi Brewery traditions to Llandeilo. The Brewery, Penlanwen Farm, SA19 8RR. Tel: 01558 650605 Website: www.jacobibrewery.co.uk BEVERAGES Email: [email protected] Real ale brewer Justin Jacobi is bottling

several beers at Penlanwen Farm, adjacent to 6) Hafod Water the Dolaucothi Roman Goldmines, Pumsaint. Hafodneddyn Farm, Broad Oak, Llandeilo The principal beers are Buzz Light Beer, Dr SA19 7AE. Tel: 01558 668207 Harries’ Dark Magic, Miner Light, Red Mobile: 07977 913469. Squirrel (with fruit undertones), and Original Website: www.hafodwater.co.uk Bitter. More beers are planned to extend the Email: [email protected] range. Beers can be purchased in cases of 12 Spring water on Hafodneddyn Farm is from the online shop on the website, and are decanted into 18.5-litre bottles destined for stocked in local shops including businesses and others who drink substantial Craft Centre, the Red Giraffe at the Castle quantities. Hotel, Llandovery, Village Shop, and The bottled water is sold through three Cwmcerrig Farm Shop, . main distributors: Y Ffynnon Ltd of Upper The Dolaucothi Arms, Pumsaint, and the , , tel 01269 506113; Bluebell, in Llandovery’s high street, have Water Cooler Wales of Llandovery, tel 07976 Jacobi beer too. A visitor centre at the brewery, 904976; and Nant-y-Mynydd of with tastings, a shop and cafe, is planned. Garndolbenmaen, Gwynedd, tel 01766 806580.

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ICE CREAM Website: www.blackmountainfoods.co.uk Email: [email protected] Jemima and Peter Mitchell are wholesalers of 8) Mountain View Ice Cream organic meat and poultry over a wide area, Ffrwdwen, Capel Isaac, Llandeilo, supplying retailers including Dewi Roberts SA19 7TR. Tel: 01558 Butchers at 16 Towy Terrace, , 685316 / 07815 750693 Llandeilo. Email: [email protected] Mountain View — Golwg y Mynydd — is rich, 10) Cnwd real ice cream from Mary Jones, Capel Isaac, Unit 9, Crosshands Business Centre, Heol near Llandeilo. The Jones family’s mainly Parc Mawr, , SA14 6RE. Friesian cows provide the milk for the ice Tel: 01269 833703 cream, which Mary takes in a mobile servery Website: www.cnwd.co.uk to events such as shows, carnivals and parties. Email: [email protected] Typical price, £2 for a medium cone. Range of Chef Scott Davis, who has experience in the flavours including butterscotch, chocolate and kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants, strawberry. learning from chefs such as Marco Pierre White, Gary Rhodes and Jean-Georges MEAT and FISH Vongerichten, returned home to West Wales to smoke fish and make terrines and pâtés for his 9) Black Mountain Foods venture Cnwd (which means ‘crop’ in English). Cwmcochied, Cwmdu, Llandeilo SA19 7EE. West Wales coracle-caught sewin (sea trout) Tel: 01558 685018 and salmon are smoked, using Welsh oak

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from . Local ingredients also include also available on the farm by arrangement. pedigree Welsh pork, chicken and venison. A RSPB-approved farm, minimal food miles, very ‘vintage hamper’ comprises smoked salmon, high standards of animal welfare. farmhouse or venison terrine, chicken liver Contact John James, parfait, pork rillettes, red onion marmalade, email [email protected], mobile duck fat, smoked duck breast, smoked cheese 0771 582 7939 and sparkling wine. Smaller hampers are also available. Products available from the online 12) From the Hedge Rose shop and many top food shops including The HedgeRose, Pumsaint, Llanwrda SA19 8BJ Fortnum & Mason. Tel: 07946 606079 Website: www.fromthehedgerose.com Email: [email protected] 11) Fferm Tyllwyd Free-range rare-breed pork, lamb and beef Felingwm-uchaf, Carmarthenshire SA32 7QE producer from Pumsaint. All meat is raised on Tel: 01267 290537 the farm. Specialising in gluten-free sausages, Welsh Black beef reared and finished burgers and faggots, also fresh joints, chops, organically on grass and silage from Fferm mince, dry-cured and gammon. Tyllwyd. Fresh on the 3rd weekend of every Weaners supplied all year round. month, frozen at other times. True Taste of Wales/ Gwir Flas award winner; award from Michelin chefs. Sold through Community Shop, Dryslwyn Community Shop, 13) Pant Y Moch Village Shop, Llansawel Market, Pant Y Moch supply pork from rare breed Berkshire pigs, raised outdoors on a

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smallholding in Llanddeusant, where the pig (minimum £20 order), see website for full feed is organic, supplemented with vegetables details. Pork boxes from £30. Customers are from the same land, and in the autumn, lots of welcome to order and then collect their windfall apples. Pant Y Moch has meat for purchases by arrangement from one of the sale at certain times of year only. Please markets which Ty Siriol attends. phone 01550 740655 for information on availability and to place an order. See the VEGETABLES, HERBS, FRUIT and Pant Y Moch page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pant-Y- PRESERVES Moch/486611578028484 15) Blaencamel Farm 14) Ty Siriol Cilcennin, Lampeter SA48 8DB Pontarddulais, Swansea SA4 8DQ. Tel: 01792 Tel: 01570 470529 882676 Website: http://blaencamel.com Website: www.welshpork.co.uk Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Peter Segger OBE and Anne Evans grow Delicious pork from a smallholding where vegetables in rotation with clover and grasses native Welsh pigs are bred and raised. Product for sheep. Their highly productive 45-acre farm, range includes chops, joints, sausages, where compost-making is a vital part of the gammon, bacon, faggots, burgers. Markets in system, includes 1.5 acres of unheated Swansea (Uplands and Marina), St Fagans greenhouses. The greenhouse area has been Museum, Cardiff Riverside, Caerphilly, expanded from one acre, to improve the Porthcawl. Free weekly home deliveries

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security of supply of vegetables in case of Dogmaels Road, outside Cardigan, into a adverse climate change. productive market garden, with a shop on site Fresh green produce is generally available open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from year-round, and in summer the wide range of 10am to 5.30pm, and on Sunday from 11am to crops includes tomatoes, peppers, aubergines 3pm. and strawberries. The indoor and outdoor produce, and home-made preserves, are sold 17) Goo’s Garden in the shop on the farm, and at farmers’ Penycefn, Manordeilo, Llandeilo SA19 7BE markets in Aberystwyth, Brecon, Cardiff, Tel: 01550 779099 / 07791 769782 Cowbridge, Haverfordwest and Uplands, Website: www.goosgarden.co.uk Swansea. In addition, there is a box scheme in Email: [email protected] the Cardiff area organised by Anne’s son Tom, Julia Cox’s range of 17 jams, marmalades and contact [email protected]. Visitors are chutneys include unusual treats such as welcome to take the woodland walk on the Penderyn whisky and Welsh gin marmalades, farm, and to look at the crops growing in the strawberry and champagne jam and portly greenhouses. plum jam. Wedding favours, full list on website. Good stock in Y Pantri, 83 Rhosmaen Street, 16) Glebelands Market Garden Llandeilo. St Dogmaels Road, Cardigan SA43 3BA Tel: 01239 614491 Mob: 07511 546701 18) Liliwen Herbs Website: www.glebelandsmarketgarden.co.uk Waunhir, Eoad, Ffairfach, Llandeilo Email: [email protected] SA19 6YT Experienced growers Adam York and Lesley Tel: 01558 823099 Mob: 07833 324207 Bryson have transformed a field at St

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Website: www.liliwenherbs.com Farm, between Llandeilo and Llanarthne, for Email: [email protected] 15 years. Ten acres of south-facing land are Lucie Scott’s organically grown herbs, well used for growing, and the farm also has six known in West Wales, come fresh and dried, commercial-size polytunnels. and are also supplied as teas and bodycare Fresh produce is ordered by and delivered products. Stockists include Iechyd Da in Broad to local people every week. More than 150 Street, Llandovery; Just So Scrumptious in households order through the Organics to Go King’s Road, Llandovery; Wright’s box scheme. Independent Food Emporium, Llanarthne; and Y Pantri, 83 Rhosmaen Street, Llandovery. 20) Rhyd-y-Gwin Farm The Telegraph Diner near railway Temple Bar, Felinfach, Lampeter SA48 7SA station; and Caffi Iechyd Da, Jacksons Lane, Tel: 01570 471432 Carmarthen, regularly use Liliwen herbs and Email: [email protected] herbal products. For the latest activities, see Fresh high-quality organic vegetables and soft the Liliwen Herbs page on Facebook. fruit grown by Phil and Michelle Drayton, also home-made preserves. Hardy perennials such as campanulas, 19) Organics to Go hardy geraniums, irises. Regulars at Llansawel Werndolau Farm, Golden Grove, Carmarthen Market in the village hall, 3rd Saturday of SA32 8NE month, and the people's market, 2nd & 4th Tel: 07588 559459 Saturdays, in the Victoria Hall, Lampeter. Email: [email protected] Organics to Go has been growing registered organic fruit and vegetables at Werndolau

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21) Farm To find out more, search Facebook for Llwyndafydd, SA44 6BY Troed-Y-Rhiw Farm. Tel: 01545 560475 Website: www.troedyrhiwfarm.co.uk Email: [email protected] Nathan Richards and Alicia Miller produce Soil and REPRESENTING PRODUCERS Association certified organic vegetables, soft fruit, herbs and flowers, on their farm Troed y Rhiw, sold through their own box scheme and 22) Grown in the UK local producers’ markets in Newport Tel: 01544 300401 Pembrokeshire and , Ceredigion. Website: http://www.grownintheuk.co.uk You can also buy from their on-site farm stand Email: [email protected] with honesty box for immediate purchases – Experienced grower David Darrell of Llanwrda just stop by the farm. They also supply to local is expanding and developing the Grown in the shops and restaurants in the area including UK website, which lists member businesses in Llys Meddyg in Newport and the Hungry Trout the UK and Ireland. The website is devoted to in . quality food, ornamentals and wood from You can also visit the farm for courses and growers in Wales and elsewhere in the British events including beekeeping and wild food Isles. Find where it was grown, where you can foraging weekends (run with New Quay Honey buy it and, for edibles, where you can eat it. Farm and Wild Pickings). Visit on the Farm The website was a finalist for two awards at Open Day, August 8th 2015. the UK Grower Awards 2014.

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RETAILERS The Watkins family’s farm diversification has created a popular farm shop and café, open 8am to 5pm Mondays to Saturdays, 10am to 23) Cooper the Butchers 4pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Smithfield House, 4 Carmarthen Street, The farm shop aims to promote local Llandeilo SA19 6AE produce which travels as small a distance as Tel: 01558 823463 Mob: 07720 287086 possible between farm and plate. There are Email: [email protected] Hereford beef and Texel-cross lamb from Website: www.cooperthebutchers.co.uk Cwmcerrig Farm itself, other local meats, Welsh Black and Hereford beef, sausages, quiches, pies, eggs, fresh Pembrokeshire free-range chicken, Welsh vegetables and fruit, bread and baked goods, lamb, Dinefwr venison, free-range pork. cheeses, milk and other goods, Burgers, bacon, faggots, sausages – Llandeilo, confectionery and more. Old Mercian, Smokey, Garlic, many more See also under Restaurants, Cafés, Fast Food flavours. Local deliveries. Shop open 8am- and Stalls 5.30pm Mon-Wed and Fri, closing 1pm Thurs and 4.30pm Sat. 25) Cwmdu Shop Cwmdu, Llandeilo SA19 7DU. Tel: 01558 24) Cwmcerrig Farmshop and Grill 685088 Gorslas, Llanelli SA14 7HU. Tel: 01269 Website: www.cwmdu.org 844405 The tiny village of Cwmdu, south of Talley, Website: www.cwmcerrigfarmshop.co.uk offers a shop and post office in historic Email: [email protected] premises. The community shop sells local

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foods including pies and bread, as well as Email: [email protected] organic and Fair Trade products and Dewi Roberts’ shop is noted for Saltmarsh household essentials. More details on lamb, Welsh beef, free-range pork and bacon, Facebook, or send your email address to be , home-made sausages and burgers and included on the mailing list. Opening hours for home-cooked meats and pies. The shop also shop and post office, Tuesday to Friday sells wines, preserves, Welsh cheeses and 9.30am-1.30pm, Saturday 9.30am-12 noon. fresh fish. Customers travel from far away, but Next door the Cwmdu Inn is open during if you prefer to order from your armchair, you shop times and Wed-Sat 7pm-11pm. There is can select meat packs at a restaurant seating 19, serving bar meals www.dewirobertsbutchers.com. Delivery is by every Saturday evening. It is available for hire overnight courier. for events, parties and meetings. There are regular events such as Folk 27) Jac’s Fruit and Veg Night on the first Friday of each month, the Heol y Dderi, annual Boat Race (May 4th in 2015), a summer Tel: 07817 101794 picnic in June, and Apple Day in October. The Greengrocer in Llanybydder, also with regular villages of Cwmdu and Talley unite for a and friendly van service for several villages in summer fair, in 2015 is in Talley on July 11th. north Carmarthenshire and south Ceredigion. On Facebook under Jac’s Fruit & Veg. 26) Dewi Roberts Butchers 16 Towy Terrace, Ffairfach, Llandeilo SA19 28) Just So Scrumptious / O Mor Braf 6ST. Tel: 01558 822566 4 Kings Road, Llandovery SA20 0AW. Tel: Website: www.dewirobertsbutchers.com 01550 720824

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Email: [email protected] (cakes, bread, quiches, pies), Fferm Tyllwyd Elizabeth McGill’s delicatessen selling a (organic beef, also eggs), From the Hedge cornucopia of foods chosen for flavour Rose (rare-breed pork products), Rhyd-y-Gwin including her own homemade ranges of pies, Farm (vegetables, plants and preserves) and sausage rolls, quiches, cakes and biscuits. Simply Caws (Welsh cheeses). Foods and Local fresh salads, cheeses, eggs, cooked crafts to buy, refreshments. Contact Bill Davis, meats, pâtés, terrines, honey, preserves, tel 01558 685696, email [email protected]. apple juice. Sandwiches, salads, soups and more for take-away lunches. Also now a café serving all the homemade food, or choose 30) Mathews Butchers from the charcuterie and cheese platters. 6 Stone Street, Llandovery SA20 0JR. Tel: Wales True Taste award winner. 01550 721277 Emphasis on produce from within 15 miles Website: www.mathewsbutchers.co.uk of Llandovery, to support the local economy Email: [email protected] and minimise food miles. Open Monday to High quality Welsh lamb, beef, pork, bacon. Saturday 9am to 5pm. Homemade sausages, meat pies, sausage rolls. Much meat from local farms. Family run, open Mon-Sat inclusive. 29) Llansawel Market Llansawel Village Hall, third Saturday of the month, 10am-1pm. 31) Simply Caws ‘Village shop’ at regular intervals. Produce Email: [email protected] from local suppliers including Cegin Pantygwin Selling artisan cheeses produced within about 30 miles of Lampeter – and there is a wide

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choice, such as Teifi, Hafod, Caws . Welsh cheeses and other local foods plus Stall at the People’s Market in Victoria Hall, foraged ingredients such as samphire, Lampeter, 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, nasturtiums, asparagus and blackberries. and Llansawel Market in the village hall, 3rd Latest information on the Blas o’r Tan Saturdays. On Facebook, look for Simply Facebook. Caws. 33) Cwmcerrig Farmshop and Grill Gorslas, Llanelli SA14 7HU. Tel: 01269 844405 RESTAURANTS, CAFÉS, FAST Website: www.cwmcerrigfarmshop.co.uk FOOD and STALLS The Watkins family’s farm diversification has created a popular café at the farm shop, open

8am to 5pm Mondays to Saturdays, 10am to 32) Blas o’r Tan 4pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Tel: 07976 945245 The café serves large portions of freshly Email: [email protected] cooked food at fair prices. Both the shop and Tom and Lara Bean from have a café are accessible to wheelchairs. For mobile wood-fired pizza and pop-up children, there is an outdoor play area. kitchen in which they cook at events, festivals See also under Retailers and private functions such as weddings. Hand- made fresh pizzas savoury and sweet, salads, hot and cold drinks. Using organic 34) Four Seasons Cafe and Shop stoneground flour of Felin Ganol Watermill, Nantgaredig, Carmarthen SA32 7NY. Tel: , Ceredigion, whenever possible, 01267 290014

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Website: www.fourseasonswales.co.uk 36) Llandeilo Country Market Email: [email protected] Llandeilo Civic Hall, Crescent Road (opposite Café is open 5 days a week, serving lunches, entrance to Llandeilo’s main carpark) afternoon teas and coffee. Beer, cider and Locally grown and freshly baked produce, on wine is sold as well as gifts and local produce. sale in Llandeilo Civic Hall on Friday mornings Cyclists and walkers welcome, parties by 8am to 12 noon. Wide variety – fairy cakes to arrangement. Opening hours Sat 10am-4pm; quiches, courgettes to redcurrants, bean Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri 11am-5pm. plants to pansies. Craft items ideal as gifts. Free entry. New members welcome, to sell 35) Lasswade Country House Hotel and their produce, plants and crafts. Restaurant Station Road, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys LD5 37) The Lusty Hog 4RW. Tel: 01591 610515 Cwtch Farm, Rhiwfawr, Swansea SA9 2RL. Website: www.lasswadehotel.co.uk Tel: 01639 831036 / 07749 363351 / 07845 Email: [email protected] 788208 Roger and Emma Stevens’ country house Website: www.thelustyhog.co.uk hotel, award winners for Green Tourism and Email: [email protected] Sustainable Food, has four star Hog-roast catering, many happy customers at accommodation and a restaurant open in the the 2014 Llandovery Sheep Festival. Selling evenings, specialising in fresh local food. succulent pork rolls, prime Angus burgers, Roger was formerly head chef at the Waldorf large hot dogs, bacon rolls, teas, coffees, soft Hotel in London, and gives cooking drinks. Available for any occasion. demonstrations.

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38) Valans Brewery beer, Towy sewin, Hafod Cheddar 29 High Street, , SA18 3HX cheese, Charcutier bacon and much more. Tel: 01269 851288 Open Mon, Tues 11am-7pm; Wed, Thur 9am- Website: www.valans.co.uk 7pm; Fri, Sat 9am-10pm; Sun 11am-5pm. Car Email: [email protected] park. Family-run independent restaurant in the village of Llandybie, now in its tenth year. Our Sponsors Everything is made ‘in house’ from the bread to mayonnaise, dressings, stocks and ice cream. They say “If we don’t make it then it The Green House, 91 Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo Selling new Fairtrade goods and eco-friendly isn’t on the menu!” The menus make the most nd of fresh local ingredients including salt marsh toiletries, 2 -hand clothes, books, many other lamb from the Gower and line-caught fish from items. Run by volunteers who fundraise to finance . Valans is open lunchtimes and projects/ campaigns focussed on social and evenings Tuesday to Saturday. environmental responsibility. Tel 01558 822646

39) Wright’s Food Emporium Dodd Racher Ltd, Llansawel, Llandeilo Golden Grove Arms, Llanarthne SA32 8JU Websites content-managed. Bespoke reports and Tel: 01558 668929 publications. In Carmarthenshire since 1989. Website: www.wrightsfood.co.uk www.doddracher.com, [email protected] Email: [email protected] Popular café and delicatessen. Local specialities including Seren & Handmade

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STOP PRESS

40) Y Pantri 83 Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo SA19 6HD Tel: 01558 328206 Local foods, and ranges of gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan products. Suppliers include Calon Wen organic milk, butter and cheese, Goo’s Garden preserves, breads from Popty Patagonia, Rachel’s Dairy yogurt, herbs and herbal products from Liliwen Herbs, and baked tarts, quiches and pies from Waverley Stores and Vegetarian Restaurant, Carmarthen. Honey, coconut milk, fruit juices, fruit and vegetables, lots of ingredients, foods for special occasions. Opening hours: Tues-Thur and Sat 9.30am-3pm, Fri 9.30am-6pm. Deliveries within Llandeilo town.

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