LOCAL farmers, growers and producers have a new outlet for their goods with the opening of a new farm shop at Stroat near Chepstow.

Among the produce on sale at the Hanley Farm Shop are fruit and vegetables from the neighbouring Landshare project.

The Tidenham Landshare is a project between farm shop owner Lyndon Edwards and Transition Chepstow where people are loaned plots of land to grow their own fruit and veg.

Mr Edwards said: "Our nearby Landshare scheme brings together people who have a passion for home-grown food and means that fruit and vegetable grown on our own land by local people travel just a few yards to be sold in the farm shop alongside produce from other local growers.

"Now you can't get much fresher than that."

The Edwards family has farmed the land since 1956 and the operation has grown from 76 acres with a handful of dairy cows to more than 500 acres and 200 cows producing the best quality organic milk.

The shop is housed in a barn which has been sympathetically renovated by Mr Edwards, his wife Maria and daughter Harriet.