Cardi ’s Ty Caws now making its own cheese to bolster retail range

By Patrick McGuigan

Welsh cheesemonger Owen Davies has ful lled a long-held ambition to make cheese, a er creating two new products with support from Food Centre Wales.

The two new products are Hiraeth – a small, so ewes’ milk cheese – and a crumbly mixed sheep and cows’ milk cheese called Crwys.

Developed by Davies at a Welsh Government funded facility in June, both cheeses will be sold through Davies’ Ty Caws retail business in Cardi . They will also be sold at farmers’ markets and through Ty Caws’ online shop from September onwards.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” Davies said. “We’re present at farmers’ markets where we are surrounded by amazing food producers, so I felt we needed to be more involved in making cheese as well as selling it. It’s our way of supporting Welsh farmers and cheese.”