The best farm shops near Edinburgh
4.7 from 788 reviews across 6 farms
Farm shops across the Lothians and Borders, ranked by rating. 8 farms made the list.
4.7 from 788 reviews across 6 farms
Farm shops across the Lothians and Borders, ranked by rating. 8 farms made the list.
Ardross FarmMeat · Elie, Fife4.7 (539 reviews)Ardross Farm Shop is a family run farm shop on the fringe of the East Neuk of Fife, overlooking the Firth of Forth near Elie. The farm grows its own vegetables and rears grass fed beef, lamb and mutton, and the family care deeply about helping people connect with their food and cook with real ingredients.
The shop is bursting with the farm's own meat and veg alongside produce from hundreds of small suppliers, from freshly baked bread and farmhouse cheeses to locally smoked fish, ready meals, fine wines and their own tallow skincare. It opens seven days a week, with a late night on Thursdays, and delivery is available through the online shop.Arbuckle's Farm ShopFarm shop · Dundee, Dundee City Council4.8 (144 reviews)Arbuckle's Farm Shop is the farm shop of P A Arbuckle and Sons at Star Inn Farm, Invergowrie, on the edge of Dundee. The family keeps hives out in the Scottish Glens, and their raw heather honeycomb is cut just once a year after the bees have foraged on the heather, giving it a distinctive, aromatic flavour. It sits alongside blossom and heather honeys and honeys blended with berries.
The shop also sells freeze dried fruit, from strawberries and raspberries to honeyberries, plus granola, cold pressed oils, fudge and gifts. Visit daily from 9am to 4pm, or order online, with free next day delivery on orders over £40.Whitmuir Farm ShopMeat & eggs · West Linton, Scottish Borders4.8 (62 reviews)Whitmuir is a working farm at Lamancha near West Linton in the Scottish Borders, farmed with regenerative methods that put soil health and wildlife first. At its heart sit a farm shop, butchery and cafe, stocking meat, poultry and the farm's own fresh produce.
The shop is open seven days a week, from 9.30am on weekdays and 9am at weekends, closing at 4pm every day. Shelves carry ready meals and pies, homemade jams, chutneys, cakes and bakes and a good range of free from products, with an online shop for ordering from home. Monthly recipe cards suggest something new to cook, with every ingredient available in the shop.
Farmton FarmFarm shop · Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross4.9 (22 reviews)Farmton Farm is a family run farm near Auchterarder in Perthshire, farming without synthetic inputs and letting the seasons set the pace. The farm grows its own produce and keeps carefully tended beehives for raw honey.
Everything is sold from the Honesty Hut, a self service stand at the farm that is open every day. Call in, pick up honey and whatever produce is fresh that week, and leave your payment in the box. It is a simple, trusting way to buy food from the people who grew it.
Butchery at BowhouseMeat · Bowhouse, Fife4.7 (12 reviews)Butchery at Bowhouse is a whole carcass butchery in the Bowhouse buildings at St Monans, in the East Neuk of Fife. Every animal is handpicked from the surrounding Balcaskie estate, where it is reared organically on a fully pasture fed diet. A rare breed Lincoln Red herd was introduced to Balcaskie in 2019, fed on grass all year round and moved daily to fresh pasture sown with herbal rich grasses; while that herd grows, Luing, British Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus cattle are also picked from the field by Euan and the estate manager. The lamb is 100% grass fed and spends its life in the fields around the estate, and all the beef and lamb from Balcaskie is organic certified and Pasture for Life assured. Tamworth pigs live outside all year, rooting in pastures, cereal stubbles, forage crops and woodland, and the counter also carries aged cull ewe mutton and wild roe venison from the East Neuk.
Nothing here is aged in a vacuum pack. Whole carcasses are hung in humidity controlled fridges with Himalayan rock salt on the floor to draw the moisture out, and each cut is used only at its prime, so you get more meat and less water. You can buy over the counter at unit 5 from Tuesday to Sunday, 8am to 4pm, and the butchery also trades at the monthly Bowhouse market weekends. Seasonal meat boxes go UK wide overnight by courier in insulated wool boxes. The team offers a private butchery and wholesale service too, for other small scale producers who want their meat handled with the same care that went into rearing it.
Steading & Co.Eggs · Leven, Fife5 (9 reviews)Steading & Co is a family run regenerative farm at Easter Newburn Steading in Upper Largo, Fife, built on the idea that health starts in the soil. Alex, Symone and the family grow food without synthetic chemicals, keep animals on pasture free from routine antibiotics and hormones, and offer microscopic soil biology testing along with biological composts, teas and extracts for growers who want to understand their land.
The farm sells beef, eggs and microgreens through its online shop, with the produce also stocked at Ardross Farm Shop and the Local Abundance REKO ring. Alongside the food there is personal training, online and in person, aimed at durable long term strength.
PhantassieFarm shop · East Linton, East LothianPhantassie is an organic farm at East Linton in East Lothian, growing seasonal vegetables and fruit under organic certification, with biodiversity, animal welfare and the preservation of natural resources built into how the land is worked.
The main way to buy is the veg box scheme, delivering across East Lothian, Edinburgh and beyond, with a range of box sizes, bespoke selections, easy swaps and no obligation to order every week. Delivery is free on orders over £18, there are collection points in East Linton, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Peebles and West Linton for those further afield, and the farm also sells at markets and through wholesale.
BalmerinoMeat · Newport-on-TayBalmerino is a family farm in north Fife that converted from intensive arable farming to organic livestock in 2020, sowing 65 acres of diverse herbal ley with 16 species of grasses, herbs, legumes and forbes. The change was driven by a deep rooted ambition to boost insect and bird populations, and the endangered curlew, whose call can now be heard from anywhere on the farm, features on the balmerino logo. The sheep flock is a Merino cross developed to thrive in the Scottish climate while growing wool so fine it can be worn next to the skin.
Both the flock and the small herd of Dexter cattle, which graze the farm's 30 year old native woodland among oaks and wildflowers, are managed organically, certified by the Soil Association and by Pasture for Life. The sheep are rotationally grazed on the deep rooting ley, and each year a small number of cattle are sold as meat boxes, with hogget also offered through the farm's shop alongside its balmerino wool yarns and patterns.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
