Check out Myrtle & Mace which has just been opened by RHS award-winning garden designer Amanda Delaney. Specialising in horti-couture' (garden products, artefacts and furniture), Amanda hopes to have a selection of herbs for sale in the very near future.

Business is booming so much for baker Aidan Monks that he's hoping to expand into purpose-built premises at the mill yard. If all goes according to plan then the new Pain de Paris bakery will be open by Easter next year. Aidan started out as a one-man band in Kendal's Westmorland Shopping Centre 18 years ago. He now employs 20 people at Staveley which bakes 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

At The Fairground, Neil and Sue Ferguson deliver a range of Fairtrade coffee, tea, drinking chocolate and sugar products to hotels, guest houses, offices, restaurants, schools and colleges throughout the area. Their runaway success' this year has been the extension of the dual label range of organic Fairtrade coffees and teas, with 50 per cent of the exclusively Fairtrade range now carrying Soil Association organic certification.

The Windermere Ice Cream and Chocolate Company has also recently taken a unit at the mill yard for its mobile ice cream parlour which operates under the name Scoop and is available for shows, events and festivals. To book the parlour' call 01539-822866 or call in at unit 5a where you can treat yourself to an ice cream too.

And finally Work has now started on the distillery which should be completed just after Christmas.