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Oats On the Way

help us get our oatsOur local health food shop (Oliver's) has ordered Pertwood porridge oats specially in for us. They were already stocking some other products from the same farm but not the oats. The other products all have added ingredients, so even the barley flakes are out as they have salt and malt and we can't guarantee the origin of those ingredients.
The shop were very helpful and interested and they asked us to tell them about any suppliers of local organic food we discover.

I should add the local corner store/grocer are also very helpful and interested and let us know in quite good detail where their UK products come from.
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