Dean Market Garden.
Salad, roots and brassicas on two and a half acres. Dean, 3 miles from the farm gate, supplying this shop since April 2022.
What they make.
Salad, roots and brassicas on two and a half acres. It is a market garden 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 April 2022, 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
- Salad bags, 120g
- Cut that morning, four days a week
- Bunched beetroot
- June to November
- Cavolo nero
- After the first frost, and better for it
- Whatever there is too much of
- At a price that reflects that
The relationship
- Supplying since
- April 2022
- Distance
- 3 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
- Field vegetables and salad · 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. They grew forty beds of a purple cauliflower on our say-so in 2023 because somebody here thought it would photograph well. It did photograph well. It did not sell, because the price of a purple cauliflower is roughly twice a white one and the customer standing in a queue in the rain is not in a mood to be adventurous. Thirty-one beds were composted. We now agree the plan for the following season in October, in writing, with a volume floor we are committed to buying.
Sixteen miles, and what that actually means here.
This producer is 3 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
- 3 miles
- Since
- April 2022
- 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.
3 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.
Enstone Meat Co
Dry-aged beef, sausage and bacon, cutting for the shop and the pub.
Bruern Mill
Stoneground flour, milled slow enough not to cook the grain.
Supply the shop yourself.
If you are inside the radius and make something we do not already have, the route in is short.
