Bruern Mill.
Stoneground flour, milled slow enough not to cook the grain. Bruern, 7 miles from the farm gate, supplying this shop since November 2021.
What they make.
Stoneground flour, milled slow enough not to cook the grain. It is a miller first and a supplier to this shop second, which is the correct order and worth stating: nothing here depends on us, and none of these businesses would close if we stopped ordering.
They have been supplying the farm shop since November 2021, which makes them one of the longer-standing relationships in a chapter where the average is about four years.
What we sell of theirs.
On the shelf
- Stoneground wholemeal, 1.5kg
- Milled to order, weekly
- White bread flour, 1.5kg
- Sifted from the same grist
- Diddly Squat wheat, milled
- When there is enough of it, which is not always
- Bran, 500g
- Sold to horse people, mostly
The relationship
- Supplying since
- November 2021
- Distance
- 7 miles from the shop, straight line
- Payment terms
- 14 days from invoice
- Listing fee
- None, and there never has been
- Exclusivity
- None either wayThey sell to whoever they like, and so do we
- Mark held
- Stoneground flour · currentBacked by Diddly Squat
Prices are set by the producer, not by us. Where a line has a fixed retail price it is because they asked for one, which two of the nine do.
What went wrong. The wheat we grow here was supposed to come back as flour under our own name. It did, twice, and then it did not, because our wheat comes off at a protein and a Hagberg that suits a feed contract rather than a bread grist, and pretending otherwise makes bad bread. We ran "milled from Diddly Squat wheat" on the packet for one season longer than was strictly true of every bag. It now says which harvest a bag came from, and in the years the grain is not good enough the line simply does not exist.
Sixteen miles, and what that actually means here.
This producer is 7 miles from the shop door. Under the planning condition that governs what the farm shop may sell, that is what makes them stockable at all — not the quality, not the story, and not whether they photograph well.
It is worth being blunt about the consequence: if they moved twenty miles away we could not sell their food, however good it was. The rule takes no view on merit.
- Distance
- 7 miles
- Since
- November 2021
- Lines stocked
- 4
At a glance.
On the public register
With the audit date and the next one due.
Paid in fourteen days
From invoice, not from delivery.
7 miles away
Inside the planning radius, comfortably.
One failure published
Above, with the party at fault named.
The other producers.
Chadlington Bakehouse
Sourdough, cottage loaves and a morning bun that sells out by ten.
Cotswold Curd
Raw-milk hard cheese in 12kg truckles, matured on board.
Windrush Smokery
Cold-smoked trout, dry-cured back bacon and smoked butter.
Sarsden Apiary
Cotswold honey, hive by hive, unblended.
Dean Market Garden
Salad, roots and brassicas on two and a half acres.
Enstone Meat Co
Dry-aged beef, sausage and bacon, cutting for the shop and the pub.
Supply the shop yourself.
If you are inside the radius and make something we do not already have, the route in is short.
