The best farm shops in Devon
4.6 from 2,081 reviews across 5 farms
Organised lists 7 farms in Devon, including 7 farm shops, 5 butchers and 3 raw milk farms. 5 deliver to your door.
4.6 from 2,081 reviews across 5 farms
Organised lists 7 farms in Devon, including 7 farm shops, 5 butchers and 3 raw milk farms. 5 deliver to your door.
Millers Farm ShopFarm shop in Axminster4.6 (1196 reviews)Millers Farm Shop sits on Gammons Hill at Kilmington, just outside Axminster, and is run by James and Olivia Miller. Some of the vegetables sold in the shop are grown in the farm's own fields, and the rest of the range comes from nearby suppliers who share the family's standards, from seasonal produce through to meat.
The shop is open Monday to Saturday from 7.30am, with shorter hours on bank holidays and Sunday opening in December. The Teapot Cafe on site serves from 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, and well behaved dogs are welcome in the cafe though no longer in the shop itself.West Middlewick FarmRaw milk farm in Tiverton4.8 (324 reviews)West Middlewick is a traditional dairy farm at Nomansland in the heart of Devon, run by the Gibson family, and it has sold raw milk from the farm since 1964. The closed herd of around 80 grass fed British Friesian and Friesian cross Jersey cows roams the fields around the farm and produces A2 milk, bottled fresh every day and sold as award winning raw milk alongside a pasteurised line. The farm also keeps about 120 sheep, pigs and around 100 chickens, and grows most of the animals' food itself.
The farm shop has grown from an honesty box into a recently converted old shippon, selling fresh raw milk, farm reared meats and local Devon produce, with the Hayloft cafe alongside. The family are members of the Raw Milk Producers Association and were among the first farms in the area awarded Mid Tier Countryside Stewardship. Campers and self catering guests stay on the working farm in log pods and camping pitches, and the farm hosts an Open Farm Sunday each year with a cream tea.Fordmore Farm ShopFarm shop in Cullompton4.4 (426 reviews)Fordmore Farm Shop is a farm shop, butchery and cafe at Newlands Park on the Honiton Road near Cullompton in Devon, run by a family of organic farmers. The butchery centres on their grassfed Longhorn beef, joined by pasture assured lamb, free range organic chicken, free range pork and duck, wild venison and a fish counter stretching from Devon crab to lemon sole.
You can shop in person or order online, with click and collect running Tuesday to Saturday. Local delivery is free on orders over £25 and they deliver to Bristol for £5, with meat boxes, hampers and multi buy discounts among the options.
West Town FarmButcher in Exeter4.8 (121 reviews)West Town Farm is an organic farm at Ide, just outside Exeter in Devon, producing 100% pasture fed beef certified by Pasture for Life. The cattle graze herbs, wildflowers and clover as well as grass on organic land, and the beef is butchered locally by East Hill Pride in Ottery St Mary, then hung for three to four weeks with no rush.
A self service farm shop at the farm sells the beef along with lamb and pork, taking cash and card, and the meat also reaches local shops and restaurants around Exeter and Okehampton. The farm hosts weddings, camping stays and free educational visits too.
Apricot CentreFarm shop in Totnes4.9 (14 reviews)The Apricot Centre is an organic and biodynamic farm at Huxhams Cross Farm in South Devon, run as a regenerative farm alongside a learning centre and nature based wellbeing service. As well as growing food, the team run courses in regenerative farming and permaculture, including the UK's first free accredited regenerative farming programmes.
The farm shop sells seasonal fruit and vegetables, pasture raised meat, fresh eggs and flowers, plus essentials such as bread, milk and cheese. Each week boxes are packed and delivered across South Devon by electric van, and you can order through the online farm shop or sign up for a regular box.
Hall Farm DartmoorButcherA small regenerative dairy at Harford near Ivybridge in Devon, milking a herd of Jersey cows that keep their calves at foot. The calves suckle their mothers until they wean naturally and then graze with the herd, and the cows live low stress lives on grass, ranging the fields and browsing the hedgerows through the year.
The farm sells raw milk and live natural yoghurts, along with pasture raised beef in mixed boxes from the male calves reared alongside the dairy herd. Everything is sold from the farm itself, where the shop is open all day, every day.
Higher Colston FarmRaw milk farmHigher Colston Farm is a small farm just outside Axminster in Devon, milking a calf at foot herd of Jersey cross cows that are 100% grass fed. The farm also keeps an ancient cider apple orchard, whose fruit goes into their raw apple cider vinegar made with the mother.
Raw milk and the vinegar are sold through the farm's online shop, with natural live yoghurt appearing when it is in stock. There are no fixed opening hours, so get in touch first to arrange a time to collect.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
