Crop Swaps & Best Meeting!

“Such Fun!”

There will be Crop Swap stalls on the 25th July, and the 1st, 8th, 15th August in Main Street, High Bentham

We will be there from 9.30 – 11.30am

Get in touch if you would like to help out 🙂

 

Our next meeting is in the Horse and Farrier, Main Street, High Bentham at 7.30 on Tuesday 18th August.  All Welcome!

Local Shopping

This is a comment from Peter Lennard - Don't be shy - 
please leave your comments/answers at the bottom of 
the post.

I live only part time in Low Bentham but was very 
pleased to see the arrival/expansion/conversion of
 the shop called Antiques into &tiques, selling food.
 On checking it out I found that they are selling 
organic fruit and veg at very competitive prices 
compared to supermarkets, will take orders for 
newspapers and also sell nice bread. I compared the 
price of their smoked salmon with Sainsbury in 
Lancaster. &ntiques price of £2.95 for a pack of 
Atlantic Smoked Salmon compared with (best price) 
2 for £8 at Sainsbury for factory farmed smoked salmon
 (similar weight per pack I think). Of course they 
don't do the range that any supermarket can do, but I
 look in at the shop first even if I am intending to 
go into Lancaster, for instance, and note what I can buy
 here on my return. But are people using this shop? Not 
many, it seems. Isn't it more environmentally 
sustainable to buy locally where possible and only go to
 a distant supermarket for things not available locally 
for a reasonable price? Is there any way that we can 
persuade local people to give it a try?

Background Picture Competition

BEST members and Bentham residents please send us photos of nice views of Bentham that we can use as a background for this site.  Whichever one we like best will be used for the site.  Either include the picture in a post on here, or send it to Collette Austin by email.