We always love to get feedback from our customers, colleagues and friends - it helps us to offer the service and quality expected of us.

Comment:

21/3/12

Hi Jo

I saw the Princes Foundation Youtube clip last night, its brilliant and you really did us all proud, a very big thank you for everything and importantly for the role you have played in helping to make this happen.  All best wishes Brecon Beacons Tourism

Comment:

28/2/12

Dear Jo and Jonathan

Thank you so much for the gift of the smoked salmon and chicken, so well wrapped and still nice and cold.

All I need to do now is think of a dressing to go with it ;) Best wishes RP

Comment:

19/02/12

Dear Sir or Madam,

 ........ are enjoying your product very much.

Comment - "It is nice and fresh and not cut too thin. Very good".  "We have frozen some of it in two halves."

 Thank you for your good offices.

 Yours sincerely,  DJ 

Comment:

16/2/12

Order received -  my daughter was delighted with her present -  thanks!

E G

Comment:

14/2/12

We just wanted to pass on our thanks for the wonderful smoked products we have recently consumed! Very good value (especially the smoked salmon trimmings)! At last, smoked food that tastes as it should.

Best Regards J & R D

Posted on Mar 29th 2012

This year we have been concentrating on marketing with other local food and  tourism businesses in the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons.  We feel sure this is a good way forward in terms of sustainability and it is fun to be working  within our community with like-minded companies in bringing our wonderful area and its produce to the wider world.  

We are exhibiting at the Ideal Home Show as part of a Mid Wales and Brecon Beacons promotion under the umbrella of the Prince's Foundation.

The opening day was amazing!  It started with a visit from Gregg Wallace, (of Materchef fame), who was really friendly and, it turns out, no stranger to Wales and Welsh Rugby in particular!  Minutes later he escorted HRH The Prince of Wales to our stand and invited him to taste, “Some delicious Smoked Duck.”  The Prince of Wales shook my hand and asked to take away some of our produce to try. He did however try the smoked Pwll Mawr Cheddar there and then!  I am left with an unforgettable feeling of pride and humbleness.

Our presence here has shown just what an impact we can make as a community.  Huge thanks to Alexandra Marr & Associates for coordinating the stand - to Brecon Brewing, Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages, Brecon Mountain Activities and The Felinfach Griffin for their fabulous manpower and selling and to Cradocs Biscuits, Blaenafon Cheddar, Trealy Farm Charcuterie, Welsh Farmhouse Apple Juice, Penderyn Whisky and Brecon Carreg for their delicious Breconshire food and drink.

With our proximity to Prince Charles’s Welsh home within the Brecon Beacons and a shared interest and concern over  sustainable foods and packaging, we are just delighted to have had the opportunity to exhibit under the umbrella of the Prince’s Foundation.

Click here to see HRH The Prince of Wales' visit to Ideal Home.  ( We feature at 2.09 minutes!)

Posted on Mar 20th 2012

Millennium Stadium to serve up SCRUM-tious Black Mountains' smoked fish

Smokery celebrates order for a ‘car-load’ for Six Nations clash

AN award-winning food producer from the Brecon Beacons has received an order for a “car-load” of smoked salmon from the Cardiff Millennium Stadium for the Wales v France Six Nations rugby clash.

Jo Carthew, director at Black Mountains Smokery, was thrilled when she heard the news that the stadium had ordered 30 kilograms – the equivalent of filling a small car – of their smoked salmon and another 30 of their smoked halibut.

The fish will be delivered in plenty of time for the Wales v France Six Nations rugby game on March 17, where it will be served to up to 2,000 guests.

Head chef at the Millennium Stadium, Malcolm Faulkner, said the two varieties of smoked fish will feature as ingredients in a multi-course gourmet meal, served in the stadium’s corporate hospitality suites.

After 10 years of leading the kitchen at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, Faulkner took charge of the Cardiff stadium kitchens in early 2010. Since then he has striven to support Welsh producers by sourcing ingredients locally. This is not the first time he has specifically chosen produce from the Black Mountains Smokery.

Click here to see how Malcolm Faulkner prepared Black Mountains' Oak Roasted Salmon for Wales Australia in December 2011

Posted on Mar 12th 2012

From @womersleyfoods

@BlackMountSmoke Smoked Chicken served with Womersley Foods' Geranium Jelly

Perfectly smoked, wonderful flavour and spot on moist and tender chicken: gone!

Posted on Mar 1st 2012

A big thank you to the Western Mail for their lovely "Real Life" feature about our home in the December issue of WM Magazine.

Our life and business really is, "A  Family Affair".  I just look forward to the day when I have time to sit and read a book in front of my fireplace in daylight hours!

If you'd like to see where we live just follow the link below and go to page 108

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/wm-magazine/ 

Posted on Feb 8th 2012