… a team of volunteers spent most of Sunday totting up every item on the shop shelves. Every year we undertake the annual behind-the-scenes stocktake. It’s a physical job which can involve getting down on your hands and knees to identify every household product, every pickle and preserve, every bottle of wine and tin of […]

…when day and night equalise around the globe and autumn begins in the Northern hemisphere. In the Cotswold village of Ilmington, people gathered for an Autumn Apple Feast, as they may have done hundreds of years ago. Ilmington used to be famous for its apple orchards and some ancient examples survive today. We celebrated in […]

After a week of being closed, the Community Café reopens its doors today, serving cake homemade in the kitchens of Ilmington. Featuring Kat’s Chocolate Cake with Malteser Crumb

…One on a mission to help out and another on a mission to see the Queen. Angy Okland, on the left, is 76 and she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, a mere 4,000 miles away. “I fly over twice a year because my son is a Delta pilot,” says Angy, “but this time I’ve really come […]

New in at Ilmington Community Shop this week are the pretty purple-sprouting and vivid Romanesco broccolis, both grown in Cotswold fields by Drinkwaters of Ebrington. These brassicas are delicious with a knob of our salted Netherend Farm Butter, which is from Gloucestershire too. From farm to fork in a hop, skip and a jump…