The best farm shops near Brighton
4.6 from 3,623 reviews across 14 farms
Farm shops across Sussex and the South Downs, ranked by rating. 14 farms made the list.
4.6 from 3,623 reviews across 14 farms
Farm shops across Sussex and the South Downs, ranked by rating. 14 farms made the list.
Priory Farm EstateFarm shop · Redhill, Surrey4.5 (1274 reviews)Priory Farm Estate covers 150 acres of pasture, ancient woodland and lakes at South Nutfield near Redhill in Surrey, founded by the Shinner family in 1957 and still family run after nearly 70 years. Today the estate is best known for its award winning farm shop, garden centre, gift barn, cafes and the Discovery Land adventure play trail, open all year.
The farm shop carries seasonal fruit and vegetables, with crab apples, pumpkins and squashes grown on the farm itself in autumn, alongside a butchery making handcrafted sausages by hand, cheeses, bakery goods and deli lines. Much of the range comes from producers across Surrey, Sussex, Kent and beyond under the shop's Love Local banner, so the estate reads mainly as a destination farm shop and family day out rather than a working livestock farm.Middle FarmRaw milk & meat · Lewes, East Sussex4.5 (1058 reviews)Middle Farm is a 625 acre working family farm on the South Downs at West Firle, near Lewes in East Sussex, farmed by the Pile family for over sixty years and now run by Helen and Rod with their sons Joe, Noah and Gulliver. The farm keeps a pedigree Jersey herd, all named after apples and pears, and describes their raw milk as a hug in a glass, free from interference and additives, with apple pomace from the farm's daily pressing in the cows' diet.
One of the country's first farm shops opened here in the 1960s and now offers more Sussex produced food and drink than any other, beside a butcher's shop selling additive free meat reared at Middle Farm and on local Sussex farms, a cosy tearoom, and a cider barn holding a national collection of over 100 draught ciders and perries. The open farm welcomes families every day to meet the Jersey calves, sheep, goats, pigs and chicks.Tablehurst FarmRaw milk & meat · Forest Row, East Sussex4.6 (404 reviews)Tablehurst Farm is a biodynamic farm at Forest Row in East Sussex whose award winning farm shop has grown from a tiny one day a week operation back in the 1990s. The butcher's counter sells the farm's own biodynamic beef and lamb and organic pork and chicken, with nitrate free bacon cured and smoked on site, and the six hectare garden supplies over ninety varieties of biodynamic fruit and vegetables.
The shop also stocks bread baked on the farm by Fermento Bakery, eggs from Orchard Eggs, cheeses from High Weald Dairy and around fifty savoury pies and ready meals from the farm's own Pie Kitchen. Raw milk from the grass fed Jersey herd, whose calves stay with their mothers until they can graze, is sold from a vending machine outside the shop, so bring your own container.
Plaw Hatch FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · East Grinstead, East Sussex4.7 (350 reviews)Plaw Hatch Farm is a 200 acre community owned biodynamic farm on the edge of the Ashdown Forest near Sharpthorne, held by a charitable trust and farmed biodynamically for forty years. It is a true mixed farm, with a dairy herd providing raw milk, cheese, yoghurt and cream, beef cattle, sheep, pigs and laying hens, and a 12 acre garden of seasonal fruit and vegetables, with close to 500 acres farmed in all within a 12 mile radius.
The farm shop sells all the farm's own produce plus organic goods from local suppliers, open 9am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and closed Sundays and bank holidays. There is an open farm policy too, so pick up a map in the shop and take the farm walk to see how the land and animals are kept.
Charlie's Farm ShopRaw milk, meat & eggs · Pulborough, West Sussex4.7 (317 reviews)Charlie's Farm Shop sits on Southview Farm at Bury near Pulborough in West Sussex, where the Hughes family have been producing milk since 1919, starting with a herd of 7 Guernsey cows. Ian and Julie Hughes began selling unpasteurised milk in 1980, and the family are now the longest standing sellers of raw milk in Sussex.
The shop has an on-site butchery, with beef from the farm hung for 21 to 28 days, milk-fed pork and rose veal, alongside raw milk, local cheese, seasonal fruit and vegetables, eggs, bread and Sussex wines and beers. A fish stall visits the car park on Thursday lunchtimes, and orders can be placed by email.
Goodwood Home FarmRaw milk & meat · Chichester, West Sussex4.4 (78 reviews)Home Farm is the organic farm of the Goodwood Estate at Chichester in West Sussex. The estate farms organically, with cattle, sheep and pigs raised on pasture across the estate, and the dairy herd is milked by a robotic system that lets the cows choose when to be milked.
The farm shop at Home Farm sells the estate's organic meat and dairy, including award winning cheeses, alongside handcrafted beer and gin and a range of fresh artisan produce. You can shop in person or order ahead for collection.
Produce is pre-order and collection only: order by 15:00 Thursday, collect Fridays from midday at the farm shop.
Brightleigh FarmMeat & eggs · Redhill, Surrey4.8 (40 reviews)Brightleigh Farm farms regeneratively on Millers Lane at Outwood in Surrey, building soil and pasture so its animals can live well with little need for treatment. The beef is pasture fed and certified by Pasture for Life, while the rare breed pigs and slow grown chickens are reared outdoors on a soy free diet, and the laying hens roam the fields producing pasture raised eggs.
Orders go in by email from the full price list on the website, covering beef, pork, chicken and eggs, and the farm is open for collection on Friday afternoons and on Saturdays.
Laines Organic FarmFarm shop · Haywards Heath, West Sussex4.8 (32 reviews)Laines Organic Farm has been growing traditional, organic, outdoor, seasonal field vegetables at Cuckfield in West Sussex since 1978, and the farm is certified biodynamic. Everything is grown in open fields and picked in its season rather than forced.
The farm sells through its own online shop, where a seasonal veg box brings a mix of ten seasonal products, roots, greens and some fruit, alongside apple juice and dried flower bouquets. Orders are picked up from local collection points, and the farm itself sits on Newbury Lane in Cuckfield.
Knepp Wild Range MeatMeat · Horsham, West Sussex4.9 (19 reviews)Knepp Wild Range Meat comes from the Knepp Estate at Dial Post, just south of Horsham in West Sussex, land that was once intensively farmed and is now a pioneering rewilding project. Free roaming herbivores graze at low density across the estate, shaping habitats and restoring watercourses as they go, with no fertilisers, chemicals, high energy feed or farm machinery involved.
The meat that results comes from animals living wild on permanent pasture, and buying it supports the estate's rewilding work. The estate sells its wild range meat direct, open daily for collection, with delivery available too.
Orchard EggsEggs · East Sussex5 (14 reviews)Orchard Eggs is a small family owned poultry farm at the end of Brambletye Lane in Forest Row, East Sussex, run by Karen and Daniel Hoeberichts. The farm follows biodynamic agriculture, with hens living in mobile houses that rotate through the orchard, kept with their beaks intact and reared without antibiotics.
The eggs are sold at a fair price through independent shops, farmers' markets and cafes around Sussex, including the market stalls of Brambletye Fruit Farm, as well as to restaurants, bakeries and box schemes. The farm cares about food miles, so the map on their website points you to the nearest stockist.
Padswood FarmFarm shop · Spraysbridge, East Sussex5 (12 reviews)Padswood Farm is a regenerative market garden at Harts Green near Sedlescombe in East Sussex, growing vegetables without pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilisers and keeping soil disturbance to a minimum with no-dig methods.
The produce is sold through a weekly veg box scheme, hand picked and delivered on Saturday mornings to Battle, Hastings, Robertsbridge, St Leonards, Sedlescombe and Westfield, or collected from the farm from 10.30am on Saturdays. From June to October everything in the box is grown at Padswood, with trusted organic farms filling the gaps over winter.
My Little FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · Hassocks, East Sussex4.5 (15 reviews)My Little Farm is a smallholding in the South Downs near Hassocks, run on a membership model where customers join the farm and share in what it produces. Crops grow in living soil without synthetic chemicals, heritage breed livestock forage naturally on diverse pastures, and a small Jersey herd grazing those same fields provides raw dairy.
The heart of the offer is the weekly Smallholder Box, filled with seasonal vegetables, pasture raised chicken, pork, lamb and beef, heritage hen eggs, raw dairy and organic sourdough, delivered to your door. Extras such as milk kefir, bakery items and pantry staples can be added from the farm shop each week.
The Traditional Cheese DairyRaw milk · Heathfield, East Sussex5 (9 reviews)The Traditional Cheese Dairy is run by the Delves family, third generation dairy farmers at Burnt House Farm in Waldron, East Sussex, where the family has been milking cows since 1962. They bought the long established cheese business in 2021 and moved production onto their own farm, so the award winning cheeses are now handmade with free range raw milk from the family's own grass based, high welfare herd.
The range includes Olde Sussex, Burwash Rose, Goodweald Smoked, Lord of the Hundreds, Scrumpy Sussex and the Christmas Burjack cheddar, sold through the online shop with UK shipping and from the dairy itself, where a cheese vending machine is open 24 hours a day. The farm embraces traditional methods, nurturing the land and hedgerows, and everyone working there is described as a grazing advocate with the animals' freedom and health paramount.
Danefold House FarmsMeat · Horsham, West SussexDanefold is a family run livestock farm in the Low Weald of Sussex at West Grinstead, near Horsham, breeding and rearing pedigree Aberdeen Angus, Beef Shorthorn and White Park cattle. All are slow matured traditional native breeds raised on a species rich, 100% pasture diet, and the farm is certified by Pasture for Life, the movement of British farmers producing animal products in the most natural way possible. The beef is naturally marbled, rich in omega 3 and aged on the bone for a minimum of three weeks before being prepared by a local artisan butcher.
Beef is sold direct through a pop up farm shop at the farm, where customers pick their own cuts rather than a whole box, and at farmers markets including Steyning in Sussex and Pimlico Road and South Kensington in London on Saturdays. Each year the farm also hosts country markets at Danefold with over 60 stalls of local produce, live bands and family entertainment.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
