Newtown farmer urges growers to support Powys food hub

A Newtown farmer is calling on other food producers in the area to join a project that aims to get more people, including school children, eating locally produced food.

John Phillips, a grower at Broniarth Farm on the outskirts of town, has been supplying potatoes and carrots to food-based social enterprise Cultivate for the past seven years. He is one of several local growers that supply the Food Hub which has already seen schools in the area placing orders to provide children from an early age with healthy, sustainable food.