 Hi, I'm Rhianon and following the support of Mentder Moch Cymru I, together with my family, have set up a pork and bacon meat boxes company, a small scale meat company just to supply local pork to the local economy. I started off with the pigs with Mentder Moch Cymru and the Young Farmers Club scheme so it was a competition between both parties and you could win five pigs. So I was successful enough to be one of the people who got the five pigs and from then onwards we had a range of different meetings and talks about how to raise pigs effectively and what's the best things to do whilst raising the pigs. This was invaluable in terms of giving us the support we needed to have a springboard then to raise the pigs effectively and efficiently. So from then we had a competition at the Royal Welsh Winterfair where we had to show the pigs. We did have previously training in showing pigs but it was a lot of fun actually showing them at the Winterfair. From then onwards we bought some more pigs and then I joined forces with my family, so my brother, my mum and my father who are the farming partnership at home and we went into the pig learning together to be able to use all of our experience and knowledge to sort of bring together Keeg, Bunkshorn, Quilth then. I always wanted to start up a meat boxes company. I always wanted to sell our products that we produced directly to the consumer but I never really had that sort of opportunity to do it. So when I saw the Ment der Moch Cymru competition with the Young Farmers Club I thought this would be ideal just to try out pig reading and then selling meat directly to the consumer then. So no, I probably wouldn't have started with pigs if it wasn't for Ment der Moch Cymru but now I really enjoy keeping pigs and it's something different to the beef and sheep farm we have at home. During the Ment der Moch Cymru competition there was always someone on hand so if we wanted to ask questions about anything specific or if we had any problems we could just pick up the phone or send an email and we'd have an answer pretty soon. The same as with the training days and the meetings we had. They were invaluable and giving us more information about how to keep pigs and best practices as well. So no, it's been really, really helpful and also if I'd have done it myself out of my own accord I probably wouldn't have gained the knowledge so quickly as I'd done through the Ment der Moch Cymru scheme. The training courses that we went on as part of the Young Farmers Club initiative with Ment der Moch included marketing and rules and regulations around selling pork. We also did some information about travelling so we did our animals and transit certificate and then we also did a session down in Pembrokeshire about showing pigs which was a good laugh and we learned a lot during that session. Yes, going forward I'm a member of a discussion group within Ment der Moch Cymru now and we do some benchmarking as part of that. Benchmarking is invaluable really for any business just to benchmark yourself and compare yourself to others to know where you're at in terms of profitability and productivity of your own holding then. We're a small scale producer, we have small batches of pigs in so hopefully we'll increase the number of batches and then increase the number of customers that we have to enable us to grow into a profitable business.