Dairy mean free range eggs, cheese, milk, butter, cream, yoghurt, ice cream and sometimes even raw milk. Thousands of dairies have closed down over the last 30 years as ‘Cheap food’ policy and supermarket ‘loss leaders’ have forced down the price of milk to farmers. Those milk producers that have survived have usually got really big and use specially bred cows to reduce cost and increase production often at the cost of animal welfare. Other dairies have diversified and added value to their milk like making cheese. Did you know that we now have more varieties of cheese than the French?
Other dairies produce ice cream, yoghurt or sell their milk raw (unpasteurised, un-homogenised) to local people using a vending machine. These farmers have gone back to traditional breeds of cow that live longer, produce less milk but of a better quality. Selling direct can mean getting £1.50/litre instead of 25p market price.
If your local Dairy, or egg producer is not on our map please email their details to [email protected] and we will add you to our monthly prize draw.
Traditional family butcher. All meats are sourced locally with traceability being of vital importance. Everything is bought in whole, then boned and p...
Organic foods, wholefoods and natural remedies sourced locally wherever possible. Bread is made on site using flour grown and milled on a local farm.
Deli, local foods, beers, catering
PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLINE CHRISTMAS ORDERS ARE FOR COLLECTION ONLYWe are a family run farm shop that specialises in free range poultry. Our chickens and...
Producers of carefully pasteursed milk from our own happy cows. (We pasteurise our milk at a lower temperature than standard milk giving it a mu...
Established in 1820 Emmett's is the oldest artisan ham and bacon producer in the UK. Still operating and functioning from our original premises in the...
Market held on the second Saturday of every month, from 9.00am to 12.30pm Stalls staffed by the local producers usually include lamb, beef, rare breed...
Traditional deli with coffeed shop & cafe.