Saturday 12 December 路 2.30pm
Farm Walk and Dusk Dinner at Lauriston Farm
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The best farms
- 1Boydells Dairy FarmRaw milk 路 Braintree4.8 (1075 reviews)Boydells Dairy Farm is a small working sheep dairy at Wethersfield, five miles north of Braintree in the north Essex countryside. It is run by the Threadgold family, Roy and Cherry, with their son Kiley now in charge, and sheep milk has been produced here since 1987. The farm covers 42 hectares, all of it grass grown to feed the animals, some of it cut for hay. Around 300 milking ewes and their offspring make up the bulk of the livestock, alongside cattle, goats, pigs and poultry, plus a pony, a donkey and a llama.
Milking takes place in a modern rapid exit parlour in batches of 18 ewes, and the family make their prize winning cheese Plumley, yogurt in various flavours and their well known Yoggipops sheep yogurt ice lollies. Their milk also goes to other cheesemakers, including the makers of Lord of the Hundreds. They are members of the British Sheep Dairying Association. The farm is open to the public from April to the end of August with guided, hands on tours that include the sheep milking, and there is a small shop selling refreshments and dairy produce, a picnic and play area and free parking.
- 2Thomas Joseph ButcheryMeat 路 Brentwood4.8 (250 reviews)Thomas Joseph Butchery is a butcher's shop at Coxtie Green Farm in Brentwood, founded by Tom Joseph and built around dry aged, grass fed beef and ethically sourced meat. The counter and online store run from grass fed and dry aged beef through Golden Herd UK Wagyu to free range pork, Iberico and Basque Ibaiama pork, grass fed lamb and free range poultry.
Beyond the meat there are artisanal cheeses, organic dairy and butter, raw honey and smoked and cured produce. You can visit the shop in person or order online for nationwide delivery, with next day delivery on orders placed by 11am Wednesday to Saturday.
- 3The Natural Hive Company LimitedRaw honey 路 Billericay4.8 (59 reviews)The Natural Hive Co is a honey and beeswax business based at Barleylands Farm park in Billericay. The aim is to keep things simple and natural, with pure honey straight from their hives, plus chutneys and jams that pair the sweetness of freshly harvested honey with savoury ingredients.
The range also takes in beeswax candles and wax melts, beekeeping equipment and a beekeeper's starter kit, all sold through the online shop. If you want to get closer to the bees, book one of the beekeeping experiences and spend a morning with the beekeepers learning the craft from A to Z.
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Deersbrook FarmMeat 路 Braintree4.6 (67 reviews)Deersbrook Farm is a family run farm at Shalford Green near Braintree in Essex, producing 100% grass fed British beef and rare breed, free range pork. The beef is PFLA certified and matured for 28 days, and the farm runs its own butchery and farm shop on Littles Lane.
Buy at the shop, or order meat boxes for collection or national delivery, from a taster box up to larger family selections. There are also dinner kits, BBQ packs and a monthly meat box that adds local free range chicken, lamb and wild game to the farm's own beef and pork. - 5
The Little Artisan BakeryBakery 路 Dunmow5 (30 reviews)The Little Artisan Bakery is a small batch artisan micro bakery specialising in sourdough bread, French baguettes and pastries.
They use flour from small mills meaning their organic sourdough loaves will continue to be unfortified and contain no folic acid. - 6
Hoyle's HoneyRaw honey 路 Brentwood4.8 (28 reviews)Hoyle's Honey is run by Richard and Sarah Hoyle from the family farm at Navestock Side in Essex, where the Hoyle family has farmed since the 1950s. Their bees forage naturally from hives positioned on the best sites across their own and neighbouring farms, and the raw honey is never overheated or pasteurised, so every year's harvest is its own vintage.
Locals can pop in to the honesty shop at the farm gate on Princes Road, where the whole range is sold including the popular 1kg jar and 1.5kg bucket. Bring the correct money, as there is nobody there to give change. The award winning honey, and bee pollen too, can also be ordered nationwide through the online shop. - 7
Lauriston FarmMeat 路 Maldon4.7 (29 reviews)Lauriston Farm is a charitable farm bordering and influenced by the Blackwater Estuary in Goldhanger, Essex. At the heart of our mission is inclusion: staff work hand-in-hand with adults with learning disabilities across every part of our working farm.
As a fully certified organic and biodynamic farm, our rare-breed Shetland cattle and North Ronaldsay sheep are 100% pasture-fed, producing organic grass-fed beef, saltmarsh lamb, undyed knitting yarn, and sheepskins. Our two-acre garden supplies our local box scheme, farm shop, and four farmers' markets across Essex.
Throughout the year, we welcome the community through open days, school visits, educational walks, and creative courses. We are proud to be a charitable Community Benefit Society with over 260 members. - 8
Brick Kiln FarmMeat & eggs 路 Colchester4.9 (19 reviews)Brick Kiln Farm is a farm on Turkey Cock Lane at Stanway, on the edge of Colchester, with a farm shop selling fresh, homegrown and locally sourced produce. What is on the shelves follows the seasons, so the pick changes through the year as crops come ready.
Alongside its own growing, the shop stocks goods from producers nearby, keeping money in the local farming community. It is an in person shop, open mornings from Monday to Saturday. The farm's own website is a coming soon page for now, so a quick look at their Facebook page before a special trip is worth it. - 9
Wild & Rooted Humphreys FarmMeat 路 Chelmsford4.9 (14 reviews)Wild and Rooted Farming raises grass fed beef, pasture raised chicken and KellyBronze Christmas turkeys at Humphreys Farm in Great Waltham, near Chelmsford in Essex. The cattle move frequently to fresh pasture in the manner of wild herds, a way of grazing that improves soil health and biodiversity while keeping the animals happy and healthy, with full traceability from field to plate.
Order online for courier delivery, local delivery on Friday mornings, or collect from the farm on Saturdays between 10am and 12 noon, when walk ins are welcome. Alongside beef in every cut the shop lists pies, bone broth, beef dripping, biltong, honey from the farm and dog bones. - 10
Magness Farms ButcheryMeat 路 Saffron Walden5 (11 reviews)Magness Farms Butchery is a family run farm butchery at Taylors Barns in Wimbish, near Saffron Walden. High animal welfare sits at the centre of how the farm operates, and the counter carries the farm's own produce alongside beef, chicken, pork and lamb, from 28 day dry aged ribs and sirloins to burgers, sausages and marrow bones.
Order meat boxes and individual cuts through the online shop, or visit in person Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm and Saturday, 9.30am to 2.30pm. Private butchery and refrigerated trailer hire are offered as well.
Braintree 路 Raw milk, farm shop4.8 路 1,075 reviewsBoydells Dairy Farm is a small working sheep dairy at Wethersfield, five miles north of Braintree in the north Essex countryside. It is run by the Threadgold family, Roy and Cherry, with their son Kiley now in charge, and sheep milk has been produced here since 1987. The farm covers 42 hectares, all of it grass grown to feed the animals, some of it cut for hay. Around 300 milking ewes and their offspring make up the bulk of the livestock, alongside cattle, goats, pigs and poultry, plus a pony, a donkey and a llama. Milking takes place in a modern rapid exit parlour in batches of 18 ewes, and the family make their prize winning cheese Plumley, yogurt in various flavours and their well known Yoggipops sheep yogurt ice lollies. Their milk also goes to other cheesemakers, including the makers of Lord of the Hundreds. They are members of the British Sheep Dairying Association. The farm is open to the public from April to the end of August with guided, hands on tours that include the sheep milking, and there is a small shop selling refreshments and dairy produce, a picnic and play area and free parking.
Brentwood 路 Butcher, farm shop4.8 路 250 reviewsThomas Joseph Butchery is a butcher's shop at Coxtie Green Farm in Brentwood, founded by Tom Joseph and built around dry aged, grass fed beef and ethically sourced meat. The counter and online store run from grass fed and dry aged beef through Golden Herd UK Wagyu to free range pork, Iberico and Basque Ibaiama pork, grass fed lamb and free range poultry. Beyond the meat there are artisanal cheeses, organic dairy and butter, raw honey and smoked and cured produce. You can visit the shop in person or order online for nationwide delivery, with next day delivery on orders placed by 11am Wednesday to Saturday.
Billericay 路 Raw honey4.8 路 59 reviewsThe Natural Hive Co is a honey and beeswax business based at Barleylands Farm park in Billericay. The aim is to keep things simple and natural, with pure honey straight from their hives, plus chutneys and jams that pair the sweetness of freshly harvested honey with savoury ingredients. The range also takes in beeswax candles and wax melts, beekeeping equipment and a beekeeper's starter kit, all sold through the online shop. If you want to get closer to the bees, book one of the beekeeping experiences and spend a morning with the beekeepers learning the craft from A to Z.
Braintree 路 Butcher, farm shop4.6 路 67 reviewsDeersbrook Farm is a family run farm at Shalford Green near Braintree in Essex, producing 100% grass fed British beef and rare breed, free range pork. The beef is PFLA certified and matured for 28 days, and the farm runs its own butchery and farm shop on Littles Lane. Buy at the shop, or order meat boxes for collection or national delivery, from a taster box up to larger family selections. There are also dinner kits, BBQ packs and a monthly meat box that adds local free range chicken, lamb and wild game to the farm's own beef and pork.
Dunmow 路 Bakery5.0 路 30 reviewsThe Little Artisan Bakery is a small batch artisan micro bakery specialising in sourdough bread, French baguettes and pastries. They use flour from small mills meaning their organic sourdough loaves will continue to be unfortified and contain no folic acid.
Brentwood 路 Raw honey4.8 路 28 reviewsHoyle's Honey is run by Richard and Sarah Hoyle from the family farm at Navestock Side in Essex, where the Hoyle family has farmed since the 1950s. Their bees forage naturally from hives positioned on the best sites across their own and neighbouring farms, and the raw honey is never overheated or pasteurised, so every year's harvest is its own vintage. Locals can pop in to the honesty shop at the farm gate on Princes Road, where the whole range is sold including the popular 1kg jar and 1.5kg bucket. Bring the correct money, as there is nobody there to give change. The award winning honey, and bee pollen too, can also be ordered nationwide through the online shop.
Maldon 路 Butcher, farm shop4.7 路 29 reviewsLauriston Farm is a charitable farm bordering and influenced by the Blackwater Estuary in Goldhanger, Essex. At the heart of our mission is inclusion: staff work hand-in-hand with adults with learning disabilities across every part of our working farm. As a fully certified organic and biodynamic farm, our rare-breed Shetland cattle and North Ronaldsay sheep are 100% pasture-fed, producing organic grass-fed beef, saltmarsh lamb, undyed knitting yarn, and sheepskins. Our two-acre garden supplies our local box scheme, farm shop, and four farmers' markets across Essex. Throughout the year, we welcome the community through open days, school visits, educational walks, and creative courses. We are proud to be a charitable Community Benefit Society with over 260 members.
Colchester 路 Butcher, eggs4.9 路 19 reviewsBrick Kiln Farm is a farm on Turkey Cock Lane at Stanway, on the edge of Colchester, with a farm shop selling fresh, homegrown and locally sourced produce. What is on the shelves follows the seasons, so the pick changes through the year as crops come ready. Alongside its own growing, the shop stocks goods from producers nearby, keeping money in the local farming community. It is an in person shop, open mornings from Monday to Saturday. The farm's own website is a coming soon page for now, so a quick look at their Facebook page before a special trip is worth it.
Chelmsford 路 Butcher, farm shop4.9 路 14 reviewsWild and Rooted Farming raises grass fed beef, pasture raised chicken and KellyBronze Christmas turkeys at Humphreys Farm in Great Waltham, near Chelmsford in Essex. The cattle move frequently to fresh pasture in the manner of wild herds, a way of grazing that improves soil health and biodiversity while keeping the animals happy and healthy, with full traceability from field to plate. Order online for courier delivery, local delivery on Friday mornings, or collect from the farm on Saturdays between 10am and 12 noon, when walk ins are welcome. Alongside beef in every cut the shop lists pies, bone broth, beef dripping, biltong, honey from the farm and dog bones.
Saffron Walden 路 Butcher, farm shop5.0 路 11 reviewsMagness Farms Butchery is a family run farm butchery at Taylors Barns in Wimbish, near Saffron Walden. High animal welfare sits at the centre of how the farm operates, and the counter carries the farm's own produce alongside beef, chicken, pork and lamb, from 28 day dry aged ribs and sirloins to burgers, sausages and marrow bones. Order meat boxes and individual cuts through the online shop, or visit in person Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm and Saturday, 9.30am to 2.30pm. Private butchery and refrigerated trailer hire are offered as well.
About farms in Essex
Organised lists 11 farms in Essex. Many do more than one thing, so among them are 8 farm shops, 6 butchers and 3 honey farms. 8 deliver to your door.
What visitors say
Had a lovely time at a private tour today! So nice to get hands on with the animals, the chap who showed us around was brilliant and very knowledgeable. A wonderful way to spend a few hours. Kids loved it (but think I enjoyed it more 馃榾) Because it was just us there we could all have some lovely time with the animals. Thank you.
Donna Byrne 路 4 October 2026
Bought two Galician rib-eye steaks yesterday and am deeply disappointed Cooked perfectly and was very chewy I think a quality control check must be put in place by Thomas and check the quality of the products being sold. These two steaks cost me 拢104.50 which is not cheap. If I hadn鈥檛 of frozen the other one I would be taking it back for him to cook and try for himself.
Paul 路 31 October 2026
Absolutely fascinating experience. Brian is very knowledgeable and approachable and made the whole experience very enjoyable. The ploughmans lunch was lovely and fresh too. Fun fact: Bees only have one stinger 馃槈
Mark 路 14 September 2026
Excellent meat,
Brian Bissenden 路 28 October 2026
Great fresh bread! Thank you Carol & Dave.
Wojciech Bien 路 4 November 2026
Picked up some Honeydew Honey from Hoyles Honey today. Delicious!
Archie MacPherson 路 11 August 2026
Good to know
- Which farm in Essex is rated highest?
- The Little Artisan Bakery carries the highest rating in Essex: 5 stars from 30 reviews. The Little Artisan Bakery
- Which farm in Essex do people visit most?
- Boydells Dairy Farm is the most reviewed farm in Essex, with 1075 reviews averaging 4.8 stars. Boydells Dairy Farm
- Where can I buy raw milk in Essex?
- 1 farm sells raw milk in Essex, including Boydells Dairy Farm. Boydells Dairy Farm
- How many farm shops are there in Essex?
- Organised lists 8 farm shops in Essex, including Boydells Dairy Farm, Thomas Joseph Butchery, Deersbrook Farm. Each listing carries photos, opening details and reviews. Farm shops in Essex
- How many butchers are there in Essex?
- Organised lists 6 butchers in Essex, including Thomas Joseph Butchery, Deersbrook Farm, Lauriston Farm. Butchers in Essex
- How many honey farms are there in Essex?
- Organised lists 3 honey farms in Essex, including The Natural Hive Company Limited, Hoyle's Honey, Brick Kiln Farm. Honey farms in Essex
- Do farms in Essex deliver?
- 8 of the 11 farms listed in Essex deliver locally or nationwide, including Thomas Joseph Butchery, The Natural Hive Company Limited, Deersbrook Farm. Delivery details sit on each farm's page. Thomas Joseph Butchery
- Can I visit farms in Essex in person?
- 9 of the 11 farms listed in Essex welcome visitors in person. Opening hours and directions sit on each farm's page. Boydells Dairy Farm
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