Chettle Village Store

18/06/2026

We now sell ice!! (As well as iced coffee)

I have to say, it’s not cheap (£5 for 2kg), but having access to last minute ice is worth the extra ££. We aren’t a supermarket and we need to attempt to make some money. I had to buy a new freezer to house it and electric prices are, well we all know what they are…

Ps. I had to transcribe the vanilla ice song, you can’t mention the word ice without singing that song. A bit like you can’t move furniture without saying ‘to me, to you’ 😂

18/06/2026

Love this company and this tasty recipe from them 😋

11/06/2026

We have just added a new blog post to the website. https://www.chettlevillagestore.co.uk/post/interview-with-alice-shop-owner-by-lindsey-from-wessex-rivers-trust

This was an interview Alice did with Lindsey from Wessex Rivers Trust and only snippets were used so we decided to publish the whole interview as it has some interesting bits in (if we do say so ourselves).

Anyway, come and support our mini supermarket (it's been a bit quiet this week), as despite it being a success for customers and locals, it's not making the Estate rich, in fact, if Alice was to pay herself then it would be making a loss! Gosh it's hard out there for independent businesses.

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I did an interview with Lindsey Death for an article she wrote in Wessex Rivers Trust. Only snippets were used so I thought I would post the full 12 questions and my answers. It gives you a bit of an insight into how and why we make decisions on what to stock, what the future holds, where we have be...

04/06/2026

This has been making us giggle for the last 24 hours….. you should’ve seen v1 of the poster! 😂

02/06/2026

These tasty beauties from are back in stock! 😋🥳

I’ve been in love with the Pomona and Kingston Black since I first had one after a meal in a pub in 2014. It then became a tradition to sip one every time I saw it on the menu.

And Perry, well you can’t beat a Perry cider. Sooooo moreish and quaffable.

The Burrow Hill lot have been making cider (and Perry) and distilling half of it into Eau de Vie to put into barrels to make brandy since 1989.

They also grow morello cherries, plums, elderflowers, quinces and lavender (which they turn into other things).

Anyway, come and buy some. Not too pricey that you might regret it either…

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27/05/2026

We’ve just found out that the wonderful Owen and Grace (who have covered the holiday shifts for the last year and a half when back from Uni) are leaving 😩 So we are on the hunt for some new people to cover the holiday periods. To start with this will be a temporary role but it may well turn into a full-time role.

The link to the job description is in our biog (on Insta) and here https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dea113abc08a4a30& (on FB).

We look forward to receiving your application!

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20/05/2026

We are now stocking Iodine (find it on the shelves behind the till, with other amazing alternative medicines like Colloidal Silver).

Iodine is one of the most commonly deficient nutrients in the UK - and because it’s essential for thyroid function and energy metabolism, the effects of low levels are easy to miss or write off as just feeling tired or sluggish.

BioCare’s Nutrisorb Iodine is a liquid supplement that delivers your full daily requirement (150μg) in a single drop. Clean ingredients: purified water, potassium iodide, citric acid. Under the tongue or in a drink.

If you eat little or no dairy or seafood, which are the main dietary sources for Iodine, it’s worth seeing if your tiredness is linked to being deficient in Iodine. Have a read about it online too….

19/05/2026

New local gin & vodka from 🍸

And a free distillery tour for 2 when you buy 2 bottles!

AND they will be doing a tasting THIS Friday from 11.30am-2.30pm outside the shop.

A little about Witchmark:
- They actually make their own spirit in their stills in their distillery in Fonthill Bishop near Salisbury, which is rare. Most people buy in the spirit and add their own botanicals.
- They are working with .loveplants to establish, grow and maintain juniper berry bushes… and weirdly, I was at organic farm yesterday with a bunch of AMAZING female farmers and we had a quick tour of the fields and their ecologist was explaining about the work they have done to begin the juniper bush project! (Complete coincidence - funny how the universe works).
- Their barley is from fields surrounding the distillery.
- They have a 100kW solar array on their warehouse roof.
- They do a bunch of other clever things with heat recovery, bio-liquid propane recovery and sending spent grains, botanicals, pot ale and lees to a local anaerobic digester.
- They also make stone daisy beer, which we also sell.
- We are selling 3 gins and the vodka 😋
- They are a B Corp 🙌

So yes… come and try some on Friday. 🥴 *hic*

16/05/2026

Freeeeee ‘erbs mate….

12/05/2026

Did you know that Glyphosate is often used as a pre-harvest ‘desiccant’ in the UK (also known as a drying agent), despite being banned in the EU for pre-harvest use in 2023.

This therefore means that UK grown wheat, barley, oats, oil-seed r**e, peas and maize (used for animal feed) is often covered in chemicals a week or so before it is harvested and then ground / processed and turned into food.

It’s shocking to think that trusted brands have a cancer causing, endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemical all over the food we eat.

The crops are not washed after harvest, just blown with large fans. And as glyphosate is a ‘systemic herbicide’ it doesn’t just sit on the surface, it is absorbed into the plant. But research also shows that residue levels are higher in wholemeal or brown versions of wheat based products as it’s more concentrated in the outer bran layers, which are removed for white flour.

This chemical is in our (non-organic) bread, breakfast cereals, porridge, biscuits, beer etc etc.

The wonderful and have started a campaign to ban it in the UK, following the EUs example.

I have added the link to the page to our Link Tree account (in our bio on Instagram) and you can click it here on FB https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/banglyphosate/

There is also a great 2 min video explaining this on the page.

Please sign the petition. The humans, wildlife, environment, rivers and sea will thank you. 🙏