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0 Comments | Western Morning News, The, Jul 24, 2010 | by MICHAEL DART
Michael, 42, is one of three brothers who run Darts Farm Shop at Topsham, described by one reviewer as “like finding Selfridge’s food hall in a field near Exeter”. He lives in Topsham and has four children – George, 12, twins Maddie and Josie, 11, and Kitty, seven.
One food critic recently said Darts Farm was the biggest farm shop in the world – is it? I don’t know, but one thing’s for sure, we certainly have expanded a lot from the days when mum and dad sold potatoes from a shed by the side of the road. Someone told me recently that they still have that shed in their garden. I’d quite like to buy it back as a historical relic.
You run the business now with your brothers Jim and Paul. Do you ever fall out? Honestly no, we never have major rows. We are very well-structured: Paul runs the farming side, Jim is in charge of making the food hall run smoothly and I look at longer-term strategy. The one to watch, though, is our mum Enid, now 77
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