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Farming Today: The Farm Shop on the Motorway

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25/08/2014

The Farm Shop on the Motorway

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Local produce on the M5 northbound. Meet the farmers supplying Gloucester Services.

Farming and countryside news. Handmade burgers, homemade soup and organic milk on the M5 northbound. Sybil Ruscoe meets the producers supplying the new Gloucester Services.

As far as motorway service stations go, Gloucester Services on the M5 northbound offers something a bit different. It markets itself as a farm shop; selling fresh, local produce from Gloucestershire farms, orchards, pantries and bakeries.

But is it just a watering hole for the well-off? A feast of luxury food for those who can afford it? Sybil Ruscoe finds out how affordable a farm shop on the motorway really is, and meets some of the producers selling their wares to the thousands of people travelling up the M5 every day.

Sybil also chats to chief executive and farmer's daughter Sarah Dunning, whose family started Tebay Services on the M6 in Cumbria back in 1972. Sarah shares her vision for Gloucester Services and defends those inflated motorway prices.

Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones.

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