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Fermenting Food into Community Since 2015. Croissant, Coffee & Loaves from 10am ☕️ …Pizza, Sandwiches & Focaccia from 12pm 🍕 Every Thurs, Fri & Sat 🌾

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Just putting some labels on the juices. Ready for some orders. Going out to @healthriverside , @bara_menyn and @ y Pantri Bach. #localproduce for #independentshops

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So much power in words, written, spoken out loud - we need to hear these words to help us understand ourselves and others.

Join us at the shop on Saturday 10th Oct to get a first look at Jack’s new, courageous and beautiful book.

4-6pm (there will be snacks and a wee tipple!)

Mental health is held up as something other than ‘health’. To say oh, I have a bad headache and cold brewing so I’m just going to stay home, maybe have an early night, that’s ok, that’s acceptable. To say, oh, I’m feeling useless and such sadness at the world , I think I’ll just stay home and have an early night, not so acceptable. But I’ve felt that, and I know many, many others have too. Mental health is health, it’s all one. We can talk about it.

#worldmentalhealthday #courage

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We will be helping launch this beautiful book, Second Person with its author @jacksmyliewild, our neighbour in the shop and at home, master baker @bara_menyn, on

Saturday 10th October, 4-6pm
With snacks and a wee tipple

The 10th is @worldmentalhealthday_ and coincidentally #bookshopday

The link between reading real books and your mental health is hugely important, and Jack uses his words to paint pictures of nature and describe the workings of the mind in a truly beautiful way.

Come along - it’s free, just turn up.

#worldmentalhealthday #booksaremybag

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We do love a weekend away in Aberteifi.
Cocktail at the @albionaberteifi
Stay at @fforest
Beer at @bernardscastle
Cake and a coffee at @crwst.cymru
Mooch around the charity shops
Hufen iâ at @hiveaberaeron
Pitta and a coffee @bocsdu
& a little gift from @threelittlepigshomestore
Supper at @yr_hen_printworks
Pizza at @grainstdavids
Bonus if you can spot @daicrabs8082 boat
Wine at @jakescardigan or @wncomwncowine
& whatever you do don’t leave without something delicious from @bara_menyn

Perfect dog friendly weekend.
#cardigan #pembrokeshire

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A new edition (the fifth or sixth, I think) of RIVERWISE has just landed. I’m pinching myself to see these words on the cover from the gentle, generous giant of the genre - the great freediver of modern place writing and environmental literature: @robgmacfarlane . As I said to Rob once, it was his own MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND, published when he was around 26, that inspired my own fresh-faced 24 year-old self, in November 2013, to take up the challenge of diving deeply into the world around me, in the hope of bringing back small riparian treasures to preserve, and then gift, between the two covers of a book. Setting out, I had no idea at all what I would find, or in turn what would find its way on to the page, and I was 30 when Riverwise was eventually published in 2020. I wandered and wrote for nearly 7 years - I couldn’t stay away; had to keep seeking, acquainting, conversing, returning week after week, year after year, to the Teifi and her tributaries - and it’s now been nearly 13 years since I made my very first journey to her banks to ask for some insights, some poetry, some watery words; some secrets about what a river might mean to a human. On the 1st of September, to mark exactly 6 years since publication, I will be sharing some reflections on the process of bringing this small book up into the light, and also posting some initial sketches (including my notes from that first encounter, on a bridge at Llanfihangel-ar-arth) that never made it into the final cut. Stay tuned. For those who haven’t read Riverwise, it’s available from the @parthian_books website (link by my @jacksmyliewild bio), direct from my shop @bara_menyn , and also from a range of bookshops.
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#naturewriting
#poetry
#environment
#memoir
#wildwales

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Our street, St Mary Street.

A street I’m so proud to be a part of.

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Pwdin Bara Menyn ger Carn Menyn

I’m a big fan of @bara_menyn in the heart of Aberteifi. From the best sourdough bread using their own flour to tasty lunch items like pizza slices with quirky toppings and a range of pastries and sweet treats.

Today I bought a white chocolate and raspberry pwdin bara menyn (ie bread and butter pudding using their own croissants) and a chocolate cake.

The plan: walk the Preseli ridge from Foel Drygarn in the east to Bwlchgwynt in the east stopping to try the goodies at Carn Menyn.

This is a fantastic walk of about 11km and with a delicious sweet treat halfway this was a day to remember.

Sadly the chocolate cake did become aesthetically challenged in my bag but oh my it was perfectly moist and not too sweet. The pwdin bara menyn was equally nice and again not too sweet.

This is a linear walk so you will need a two car approach so on your way back stop off for a pint at the iconic @tafarnsinc. You simply can’t walk this route without stopping there on your way back.

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Wedi wythnos yn Eisteddfod y Garreg Las dyma daith gerdded i weld y Garreg Las ei hun. Mae hon yn daith sydd rhaid i chi neud os gwnaethoch fwynhau yr Eisteddfod. Pellter da, ddim rhy heriol a cymaint iawn gwell gyda @bara_menyn a @tafarnsinc.

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20 Eisteddfod y Garreg Las

Pwy sy’n mynd i’r @eisteddfod dros yr wythnos nesa ac yn meddwl am ble i fwyta ac yfed?

Co chi 20 o fy mhigion i ar gyfer Aberteifi a dalgylch yr Eisteddfod yn Sir Benfro, De Ceredigion a Gorllewin Sir Gâr.

Co’n 20 i a sori ma na lot lot fwy wrth gwrs ac ma da fi rhestr o lefydd i fynd i yn ystod yr wythnos felly rhowch wbod ble sydd ar goll a nai weld os allai wasgu nhw mewn. Sai moyn pechu chyl 🙏

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All roads lead to Aberteifi and the National Eisteddfod for the big Welsh festival full of everything Welsh and even if your Welsh language ability is limited you should totally go especially if you’re in and around West Wales.

Think everything Welsh culture from the contemporary and cutting edge to traditional.

To paraphrase Ron Burgundy it’s kinda big and is a MUST VISIT Welsh experience.

Most of my 20 picks are in and around Aberteifi (That’s what us locals call Cardigan and what you should too) however I have added some that have made a big impression on me further afield in the catchment area of this Eisteddfod in Pembrokeshire, South Ceredigion and West Carmarthenshire.

I plan to do a fair bit of exploring Pembrokeshire next week when I’m not needed at the Eisteddfod itself so let me know where you would’ve added to this 20 and who knows… maybe it’s on my list for next week 😉

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Aberteifi, 7am.

The bakers are already in. The butchers are opening up. Someone is rowing out to their boat.

The people who make the town.

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Our local guide to places to eat 🍴

We’re lucky to have so many lovely cafés, restaurants and local spots nearby, from cosy coffee corners and wood-fired pizzas to cakes and sweet treats.
Here are a few of our favourites close to our cottages in Aberporth and Tresaith, all well worth a visit:

📍 @theboyashore, Aberporth (image credit: Linda Herman) 📍 @tafell_llangrannog, Llangrannog 📍 @cardiganbaybrownies, Cardigan 📍 @theplwmptart, Penbryn 📍 @yr_hen_printworks, Cardigan 📍 @bara_menyn, Cardigan 📍 @crwst.cymru, Cardigan

Save this for your next visit to the coast 🌊

#AberporthCottages #PlacesToEat #CardiganBay #WestWales #VisitCeredigion

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YUM! Win a @bara_menyn goodie bag via the link in our bio 🥖 🫶✨ £1 = 1 entry ✨

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Help us to save resources and reuse our apple juice bottles. Thanks #organicapplejuice #soilassociation #organic #newcastleemlyn #cardigan @healthriverside @ y Pantri Bach @candmorganics @bara_menyn

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