Farming

Neal’s Yard is a peculiar feature of London’s past, and it continues with Neal’s Yard Dairy at Park Street.

I popped in to take a look, and it was doing a brisk trade.

The cheese wheels are delightful (as you can see), and the wedges are really too tasty-looking to not buy into.

Of course, dairy farming has its opponents because of vegan activism. Also, dairy shops such as this one have to compete against supermarkets as well.

So, what’s the point? In the opposite, in fact.

In reality, not many of us are vegans and neither do we all want to pick our cheeses off a shelf by ourselves.

It’s a fair enquiry, but to investigate another’s shopping habits – or to change them – belies a peculiar sort of nimbyism .