Bens Blog

With wine sales continuing to go uppity up-up and it becoming obvious that what’s good for ...

By Harry Watson. Caribbean Weekend Next up at ‘Harry’s Smokehouse’ is a J...

By Ben Watson. BBQ & Ice Cream Work has started on ‘Harry’s Smokehouse’ and...

By Greg Morgan. Little steps in the right direction I joined Ben’s in 2013 and never looked...

By Guy Singh-Watson Making a living from growing veg even on a medium scale is challenging ...

Bold changes are coming to Churchtown Farm – for twenty five plus years, principle supplier...

When it rains it pours. I’d just got back from my wine jolly to Sicily when the phone rings...

Our first ‘tell us what you think so you can help us chose which new wines to stock’ tastin...

As a business, we’re always on the lookout for solutions to tackle the single use pla...

As a business, we’re always on the lookout for ways to reduce our inclusion of single...

With our mince pies flying off the shelves at this time of year, we inevitably face questio...

This year, we’ve gone all out and embarked on our very first Christmas brochure. We s...

Does anyone else feel that since the release a few week’s ago of the UN Intergovernme...

There’s a bit of a do on this weekend – we’ll be open as usual for celebrators ...

I’m probably shooting myself in the foot drawing attention to ‘Yes, bacon really is killing...

The news is full of links between so called ‘ultra-processed’ food and cancer, with another...

Veganuary will be over soon but, let’s not kid ourselves, things aren’t going to return to ...

As a business we are constantly striving to do our bit to cut carbon emissions and reduce w...

Without the stress of making thousands of organic mince pies for the Riverford veg boxes, w...

It seems ‘grass fed’ is becoming more and more of a buzzword – used at every opportun...

Pass the butter please – if you’re lucky enough to have any. Now that we’ve all accep...

The other summer food news that won’t go away seems to have been around the perils of so-ca...

It might just be me but the summer news season seems to have been particularly weak, with t...

I talked last week on the blog about food security and how the fall in the pound, post Brex...