A smallholding couple have been told to stop selling eggs and kindling from an honesty stall after a neighbour complained.

Dan and Bethan Bolton are tenants and run their Happy Meat Company on land at Holyrood Farm, half a mile from Shaftesbury. They have Dexter cattle, pigs and sheep and would like to open a small farm shop at the farm, which also operates a camping site.

The honesty stall was a first foray into selling from the farm. But within a week, the farmer had received a call from the council saying there had been a complaint.

Dan posted on Facebook: “We are just a family with young children trying to provide for our community and would have hoped that people would be more supportive.”

He later told the NBV: “We rent the land and farm buildings. Someone had called the council but I’m not even sure what they said.”

His post did elicit plenty of support, however. “What?! Madness! I was bloody pleased to see local eggs and kids were looking forward to many trips round to fetch them,” said Shaftesbury resident Zoe Dunne.

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