Local eggs and honey

The eggs come down the hill from a farm at Llangynwyd on Tuesday and Friday mornings in the farmer's own trays, laid that week by hens that are out on the field from first light. The honey is from twelve hives on the Garth above Maesteg, kept by a retired collier who started with two in 1998; spring honey from May, and the darker heather honey from late August if the summer was kind.

Eggs are sold by the dozen, the half dozen or loose; bring the tray back and it goes back up the hill. They are mixed sizes because hens are, and we do not grade them. When the hens go off lay in midwinter there are fewer, and the shelf says so rather than filling up with somebody else's.

Next to them: honey, a shelf of jams and chutneys made by Glenys in Caerau from fruit we sell her at the end of a season, Welsh cakes from the bakehouse two doors down on Saturdays, and a Llynfi valley rapeseed oil. It is a small shelf. Everything on it is made within six miles of the till.

What you get

• Free-range eggs from Llangynwyd, Tuesday and Friday
• Loose, half dozen or dozen; trays go back to the farm
• Spring and heather honey from twelve Garth hives
• Jams and chutneys made in Caerau from our seconds
• Saturday Welsh cakes from two doors down
• Add any of it to a veg box

What it costs

A dozen Llangynwyd eggs £3.60, half a dozen £1.90; Garth honey £7.50 a 340g jar, heather honey £8.50 in late summer; jams £3.80; Welsh cakes 50p each. The seasonal calendar says what is good this month; the boxes page builds this week's box with the delivery day.