Wychwood Dairy.
Bottled milk, cream and cultured butter from a hundred-cow herd. Milton-under-Wychwood, 5 miles from the farm gate, supplying this shop since July 2021.
What they make.
Bottled milk, cream and cultured butter from a hundred-cow herd. It is a dairy 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 July 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
- Whole milk, 1 litre glass
- Bottle deposit, 40p, refunded
- Double cream, 250ml
- Weekends, and Christmas week
- Cultured butter, 250g
- Salted only, because unsalted did not sell
- Buttermilk, 500ml
- Bakers buy most of it
The relationship
- Supplying since
- July 2021
- Distance
- 5 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
- Milk, cream and butter · 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. We put the glass bottles in without a working return route. People bought the milk, took the bottle home, and had nowhere sensible to put it back — so we lost about sixty per cent of the first two thousand bottles and the dairy carried the cost of replacing them. The deposit was too low and the return bin was behind the tills where nobody could see it. Both have changed, and it is the reason the refill scheme on this site starts with the crate rather than the container.
Sixteen miles, and what that actually means here.
This producer is 5 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
- 5 miles
- Since
- July 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.
5 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.
