BISHOPS VISIT TO The Royal Welsh show 2011
Bishop visits Richard & Jenni Arnold at Calon Wen stand and meets the mascot. Calon Wen is a Co-op owned by over 20 farming families from across Wales. Our children and families drink our milk everyday and the rest is bottled or churned giving you a taste of the simple life.
Calon Wen is the first dairy in the UK to achieve the Soil Association Ethical Trade Symbol.
Richard explained to Bishop John how the QR (Quick Response) barcode is being used to enhance their marketing.
Bishop John tastes some cheese at Blaenafon Cheddar Company,a specialist cheddar cheese company based in the World Heritage site of Blaenavon.. They produce eleven very distinctive cheddars. All the cheeses are hand made at the shop in Broad Street Blaenavon. Pwll Mawr cheddar is actually matured at the bottom of the mine shaft at Big Pit mining museum. The cheeses are flavoured with Penderyn Welsh whisky, Welsh white wine, Reverend James ale and other local ingredients. Bishop John was interested to hear that the family run firm take their produce to France where they are very well received.
Bishop John Visits the stand of the Hurns beer company. The Swansea Brewing Company is over 130 years old and still owned and run by the third generation sister and brother Connie and Phil Parry owners of the award winning Tomos Watkin brand beer. Bishop John enjoyed a sample of Cwrw Idris.
He learned that it was dedicated to the memory of Grandfather Idris Parry AB, who established the Hurns Mineral Water Co., after he'd survived being torpedoed and sunk by the Kaiser... twice!
Vowing never to go near salt water again,
he spent the rest of his life downing the great Ales of Wales.
Bishop John tries a riding similator
and a variation on the rowing machine - a kyak machine. In a challenge he covered the equialent of 100m in 27.9 seconds