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| Stoatweed's Farm Shop (picture from Facebook) |
A family-run farm shop is closing its doors after nearly 40 years in business.
Stoatweed’s Farm Shop at Stoatweed Farm in Buxley has sold locally produced food and drink since opening in 1985.
But now bosses say it is time to say goodbye as the shop prepares to close at the end of the month.
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| Angus Stoatweed: "heavy heart" |
“Our proposed date for closure is Friday, January 31.”
“For the past 40 years, we have been dedicated to providing our community with the freshest, locally sourced cabbages, high-strength farm-produced cider and a warm, welcoming atmosphere, which the cabbages helped to create.”
“We are incredibly grateful to every one of our loyal customers who have supported us.”
“Thank you again for your support.”
The post did not disclose the reason for the decision to shut the shop and we were too lazy to contact them to ask as that would have involved actual journalism, which we don’t do.
The farm shop also sells Stoatweeds Old Headbanger, a cider which is also produced on the farm.
The news has come as a shock to the loyal local cabbage lovers and drunks, who have expressed their sadness at the closure.
One person commented to say: “Sad news. All the best for the future.”
Another said they would “miss the lovely ladies who staff the shop”, while another said they would miss the “cabbages and brussels sprouts from the farm”.
One long-standing customer said: “So very sad to be losing such a great farm shop, have been coming to you since we moved to the area 40 years ago.”
A local cider lover, Mrs U.I. said “Thas shome ve’y ve’ y shad newsh. Back to Tescosh for the Speshial Brew I supposh. I luv you yor my bes’ mate hic…”
The latest closure announcement comes in the same week that Bogle’s Farm Shop in Bogle Gusset, near Stroochester, shut its doors.
It had also been trading for more than 40 years.
Meanwhile, a butcher's at Himmler House Farm Shop in Cobblesdown has also closed.
A post on social media said the butchery side of the business “has not been financially viable for several years”.
More superb investigative
journalism (i.e. looking
at stuff on Facebook) from the real world…
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Chad Grindr wrote:
Hope those affected by this sad news will be OK. However, all these farm shop
closures are thoroughly worthwhile if they give us an opportunity to point out
once again how awful this Labo*r government is and how much better off we would
all be if the Tories were still in power.
👍+98
Phil Thementallyill replied:
I agree that these closures are simply awful
I, for one, will be absolutely delighted if the
All those who voted Labo*r at the last election should hang their heads in
shame.
👍+82
Auntie Nartsie replied:
I absolutely agree Phil. Runaway inflation, the destruction of what’s left of
British industry, the collapse of the UK’s banking system, the impoverishment
of the whole country, societal disintegration, famine and mass civil disorder
are all but a worthwhile price to pay, just so long as right-thinking, Union
Jack-wavers like us can get to crow about how bad Ke*r St*rmer’s anti-British Labo*r
government is, and how brilliant Tories like Liz Truss were.
👍+91
Phil Thementallyill
wrote:
These farm shop closures are all totally a direct result of the Labo*r government’s
introduction of VAT on private school fees, inheritance tax changes for
farmland, hikes in employer’s national insurance contributions, increases in the
statutory minimum wage and Ke*r St*rmer’s freebie spectacles. All those who
voted Labo*r at the last election should hang their heads in shame.
👍+132
Yu Rong replied:
I totally agree Phil. And has evil Labo*r chancellor Rach*l Re*ves even bothered
to visit these affected farm shops? Huh, no chance! She’s too busy jet-setting
around holding trade talks in
👍+87
Super Small Dick
wrote:
No doubt all these farm shops are being sold off to developers on the orders of
wicked Labo*r housing minister Ang*la R*yner, so that millions of new homes can
be built to be given free to the millions of illegal immigrants that have crossed
the channel in small boats and are being kept in luxury hotels while millions
of UK pensioners freeze to death and homeless farmers are sleeping on the
streets after being kicked off their land because they can’t afford to pay
their inheritance tax. Another four years of this turgid drivel, then we can all
vote REFORM UK PARTY PLC!
👍+34
Angus Stoatweed
wrote:
The reason I’m closing my farm shop for now is that me and the
missus are both over 80 and we’re finding it all a bit too much. Hopefully it
will re-open next year when our grandkids finish their agricultural degrees and
help take the farm over with our son. If the
👎👎👎-987
Neil Barse replied:
Typical lies and whataboutery from a bitter and twisted leftist Labo*r loser. I
think you far-left socialists must be mentally ill to constantly come out with
the lies and whataboutery the way you do. You are obviously a bitter, lonely,
insidious individual who's mental instability is getting worse by the day, due
to the fact they fail to annoy anyone with their constant sea-lioning and self-contradictory
posting. Crawl away and die, you tofu-eating, Guardian-reading pillock.
👍👍👍👍+1024
Pseudocreem 2 wrote:
Comrades Labo*r used lies and disinformation to trick their way into power and
have been attacking UK population ever since by doing things they had promised
not to I cannot think of any other government in world which has passed
legislation which they know will kill most vulnerable people in society like pensioners
who will die if they withdrew the Winter Fuel Allowance now they are attacking poor
millionaire farmers and billionaire rentier landowners like my wealthy friends
from beloved Russia. Who will be next? The rest of the world is looking on with
horror as political opponents and journalists in UK are thrown in jail for
social media posts and journalists are threatened by St*rmer and bully boys of
his regime what UK needs is fairness and freedom of true democracy as offered
in homeland by dear Mr. Putin and his patriotic rich oligarch friends rather
than gangster regime of Ke*r St*rmer.
👍+18