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Good Carma Foods is the venture of Charlotte Bates. Based in Carmarthen (hence the spelling!), they specialise in creating dairy, wheat and gluten free cheese alternatives. This week we caught up with Charlotte to learn more about her business, its products and what she thinks about selling on STDAVIDS.WALES. Charlotte launched Good Carma Foods in 2013 in honour of her mother, Lynne, who died earlier that year. Charlotte has been a vegan since 2010, and says 'I wanted to help my mother by offering an alternative to dairy cheese without sacrificing flavour but using healthy ingredients as well.' She began developing her vegan...

Aquila (Quil for short) lives in the Welsh Valleys with her two daughters. She started her ceramics business Love & Lovelier as a way to make her work life more flexible around her home life. Both of her daughters have Cystic Fibrosis, and she says 'I needed a way of working that I could fit in round all the hospital appointments and so forth.' The business has grown from there, and she recently took the step of selling through STDAVIDS.WALES, so we caught up with her to learn a bit more about it. Like many working parents, Quil acknowledges the complexities of...

Eva Leslie creates wonderful designs from just a fluff of wool. From angels to hares, each of her creations is unique. From her home near Pontyclun in South Wales, she also runs felting workshops for all abilities. We chatted to Eva about all things felt, and she told us why she wanted to sell through STDAVIDS.WALES. How did you begin felting? As I walked through a German library an Angel Needle Felting book fell off a shelf. I decided it was meant for me as I love Angels - I borrowed the book and my needle felting path began. What...

Rachel is a Pembrokeshire photographer. Her breathtaking pictures of local wildlife and landscapes are printed onto all sorts of items sourced in Wales, from tea towels to key racks. She's also produced a 2019 Calendar this year, which is now available on STDAVIDS.WALES! We caught up with Rachel this week to learn a bit more about how she began her interest in photographer, and where she wants to go from here! How did you get into photography? I first started taking an interest in photography when my husband bought himself a good camera (A Canon 6D). John quickly found that...

This week we've caught up with Lisa Smith of St Davids Yoga to talk all things, well, yoga in St Davids!   How did you get into yoga and what made you want to teach? I went to my first yoga class when our son was 6 weeks old because I was suffering with a big dose of what was then referred to as ‘baby-blues’. It’s only 19 years ago, but post-natal depression wasn’t talked about as it is now, but fortunately someone told me Yoga would help and when I got home from my first class, I clearly remember feeling different, better. I...