The best ones are not advertised and are just known to the locals and sell produce grown on site or very close by. The general stores that sell cheese, etc. are not really farm shops.
I hate to tell you but real fresh food does need copious washing.
I don’t think farm shops are really set up for people on a budget - if price is totally irrelevant (for example for a Dubai based lawyer) then the produce can be quite different and interesting.
You go in with thoughts of picking up a nice potato. You come out with some Turkish Delight, a Big Green Egg and a home appointment with the hot tub salesman.
I have boycotted one of our local farm shops on grounds of daylight robbery. £1.50 for a courgette and £13 for a macaroni cheese I could saw in the supermarket for £7.
The farm shop in our village however is really good.
I prefer the stuff that costs virtually nothing but needs washing because I just picked or dug it up 30 feet from my kitchen. Now really must get someone in to do some deer culling as they’ll butcher it and it’s totally free.
There are a couple in the Lake District and Cornwall that are good. They often have delicatessens attached which are what a lot of these farmers markets are.
Cowdray park near Midhurst. The estate farm shop is excellent. Meat particularly. The beef is black angus, grass fed, from the estate. Pork, lamb, chicken and Venison local. Veg is lovely. Expensive but worth every penny.
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Never found one.
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Actually Mainsgill in Richmond is very good but getting very big.
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In my (limited) experience of these places they are often overpriced and the produce is of poor quality. Fresh veg invariably needs copious washing.
Still, they make yummy mummy’s feel good about themselves.
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Odd butchery on cuts of meat
bread which weighs a ton
funny tasting cheese
veg can be ok but I wont buy lettuce and soinach covered in mud (like now after heavy rain)
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Act I’m thinking of “farmers markets” in London
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Farm shops are all goodin Hants. You people need to move outside the M25.
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Only place to guarantee organic free range meat, apart from the local butcher if you're lucky enough to have one.
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Garsons Esher. Best cheese in the area
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The farm shop at Druid Temple farm by Inverness is pretty good.
And the community garden at Ardnamurchan.
Village Greens in Ockley (Butchers Hall in FG not been the same since Charles died). Get the meat from Reg Chitty and the boys in Brockham.
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Tebay is fine.
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Punnet of raspberries £1 today. Not a farmer in sight
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The best ones are not advertised and are just known to the locals and sell produce grown on site or very close by. The general stores that sell cheese, etc. are not really farm shops.
I hate to tell you but real fresh food does need copious washing.
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Grow yer own
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Lol@ garsons. They saw u coming in your pink check, barbour and hunters, rodge.
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Tebay is fine.
Agreed. The same group also own Gloucester services on the M5 and Cairn Lodge services on the A74 in Scotland, which are also good.
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Are farmers' markets a thing out there in patland? What's on offer besides dates and dromedary?
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I don’t think farm shops are really set up for people on a budget - if price is totally irrelevant (for example for a Dubai based lawyer) then the produce can be quite different and interesting.
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Megaheh @ this - Stick with Marks & Sparks marsehole.
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Went to garsons once. Bloody awful place. Never again.
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gammons and alt right freaks don’t like sustainable local level produce-buying
what a surprise to learn of Marshall Hall’s view on farm shops
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What's wrong with Greggs?
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You go in with thoughts of picking up a nice potato. You come out with some Turkish Delight, a Big Green Egg and a home appointment with the hot tub salesman.
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There’s a place near me that sells fruit and veg almost straight from the field for so little that I some times wonder how they make any money.
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Incredible, it's almost like supermarket purchasing power works in a market distorting way.
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Barry Fitch, Little Eaton
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People on here are suddenly obsessed with their chalfonts. Is it age?
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Spot the idiots who pay double price for crap stuff that requires washing to remove a bunch of shite when you get it home.
Performative feckwits, led by ROLF.
Farmers are pissing themselves at your complete idiocy.
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I have boycotted one of our local farm shops on grounds of daylight robbery. £1.50 for a courgette and £13 for a macaroni cheese I could saw in the supermarket for £7.
The farm shop in our village however is really good.
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I prefer the stuff that costs virtually nothing but needs washing because I just picked or dug it up 30 feet from my kitchen. Now really must get someone in to do some deer culling as they’ll butcher it and it’s totally free.
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There are a couple in the Lake District and Cornwall that are good. They often have delicatessens attached which are what a lot of these farmers markets are.
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What is dishonest about a shop selling stuff?
Or is HG accusing them of being fronts for money laundering or something?
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Only a northern pikey would ask that.
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You are absolutely rattled
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The idiocy in this thread is: being surprised by a potato being muddy
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Max and cheese lol. If you’re buying pre-made Mac and cheese why are you anywhere near a farm shop. Was Cook closed?
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Things we now know marsehole is terrified of.
EVs
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Fresh veg
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Cowdray park near Midhurst. The estate farm shop is excellent. Meat particularly. The beef is black angus, grass fed, from the estate. Pork, lamb, chicken and Venison local. Veg is lovely. Expensive but worth every penny.
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