What people say.

I build the box on Monday night when the list goes up, tick the eggs, and it is on the step on Thursday with the field number chalked on the crate. No subscription, so I skip the weeks we are away. The children fight over the strangest carrot.

Half a lamb for the freezer at £145, from the hill I can see from the café. Dafydd rang to ask how I wanted the shoulders. I have bought lamb in a lot of places and this is the first time I have been able to go and look at the rest of the flock.

Breakfast in the old dairy with the stove lit and the dog under the table, then the shop, then a walk up to the sheep. It is the Sunday. The bara brith is the best in the Vale and I have done the research.

Three summers of strawberry picking with the twins. We check the website at nine to see if the field is open, drive over, pick far more than we need, and eat cream in the orchard. They do not weigh the children, which is wise.

The best vegetables I have bought anywhere and the calendar on the website is genuinely useful. Four stars because the lane is single-track with two passing places and on a Saturday in December it is a scrum; come early or come on a weekday and it is five.

We pick the tree standing in the top field with Dafydd, it is cut while we have a coffee, and the needles are still on in January. Turkey ordered on the website in November, collected on the 24th with the pigs in blankets. Mulled apple in the dairy. That is Christmas sorted.