From our tea-rooms and restaurants to our farm shops, the National Trust in Wales has a wide range of the very best local and seasonal food on offer.
The National Trust’s chefs and catering teams at properties across Wales work to develop menus based on local and seasonal food. Wherever possible, food for National Trust kitchens is sourced from the land immediately around: fruit, herbs and vegetables from the kitchen gardens; meat from quality herds, provided by tenant farmers; ensuring that food miles are kept as low as possible.
Why not have a go at making some of the delicious dishes served at properties in Wales?
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The Trust has over 220 tenanted farm in Wales and works with our farmers to support diversification and to assist in marketing their produce that comes directly from those farms.
Several of our farmers sell their produce from their own farm shop, while produce from several of the Trust properties can be bought at the property or through the boxed scheme which has proved a great success with Hafod y Llan lamb and beef produce.
Pembrokeshire’s diverse landscape gives our tenants the opportunity to flourish. The potatoes of Peter and Gina Smithies of Trehill farm have proved a success and can be seen in local supermarkets throughout Wales.
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The award winning Pembrokeshire Coast Organic Meats, Cwmrath, run by Phil and Hilary Rogers in Pembrokeshire, sells its delicious lamb and beef produce through its own farm shop, website, the boxed scheme and in local events throughout Pembrokeshire.
The Salt-marsh land owned by the Trust on the Gower allows Colin Williams and partners to produce the delicate salt marsh lamb, sold through local retailers and served in local restaurants.
The initiative of a group of eight tenant farmers on the Dolaucothi estate has proved successful with Dolaucothi Lamb now sold in selected Sainsbury’s stores in England and Wales.
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The Organic home farm at Llanerchaeron on the West coast of Wales is a major attraction. Visitors can experience today’s way of farming and the farm shop sells the highest quality fresh produce, from vegetables picked that morning from the garden to a succulent piece of beef or lamb. A perfect Sunday lunch in the making.
With the support of the National Trust, the delicate livelihood of crab and lobster fishing at Porthdinllaen off the Llŷn peninsula thrives with the installation of a state of the art processing plant at Cwrt farm. With their produce sold in restaurants across north Wales.
The Trust-managed farm of Hafod y Llan on the slopes of Snowdon prides itself in its organic and sustainable method of farming. With a flock of hardy Welsh Mountain sheep and Welsh Black cattle they annually produce succulent welsh lamb and beef for their own boxed scheme.
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The autumn harvest always proves an exciting time at Erddig when the apples are collected to produce their own cider. Both Erddig honey and cider can be bought at the tea-room and shop in Erddig.
The new farm shop at Chirk is full of fantastic local produce from local producers and Trust tenants, underlining our belief in supporting producers of local and quality produce.
The National Trust is investing significant resources to supporting the initiatives which highlight the importance of local healthy food, and will continue to develop the educational aspect to ensure that the public understands why it is so important to support this sector.
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