Top of the milk, food festivals and chocolate

A new dairy opening in Whitland will make sure milk remains 'Proper Welsh'. Tempting our tastebuds - but what role do food festivals play? And can a buyer be found before Wales's best known chocolate farm melts away?

Last updated: 18 September 2011

Country Focus - Sunday 18th September at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 19th September at 0530

Real milk, raw milk, homogenised, pasteurised - we get to grips with Proper Milk locally produced out of Whitland.

As Wales' premier food festival is underway in Abergavenny, we ask what role do food and drink festivals have in the local economy and in promoting Welsh food?

Our community reporter Huw Jenkins lends a hand to other volunteers at Harlech beach to clean up all the litter and debris following the summer season. And if you'd like to get involved at the coast near you it's the Marine Conservation Society's Big Beachwatch weekend.

And after 20 years Pemberton's chocolate farm in Llanboidy is up for sale.


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