4.5 from 513 reviews across 6 farms
Organised lists 7 farms in Gloucestershire, including 7 butchers, 4 egg farms and 4 farm shops. 7 deliver to your door.
Abbey Home FarmMeat & eggs · Cirencester4.5 (473 reviews)Abbey Home Farm is an organic farm on the edge of Cirencester, home to The Organic Farm Shop and its cafe. The family took the farm on in 1990 and now keep rare breed organic Shorthorn cows, laying hens, table birds and pigs, alongside a 15 acre organic market garden growing over 80 varieties of fruit, vegetables and herbs through the year.
Milk is pasteurised on the farm and sold non homogenised from a vending machine in the shop, with their own yoghurt, cream, occasional butter and cheeses including Wiggold Cheddar beside it. The farm even grows spring wheat for its Abbey Loaf, milled up the road at Shipton Mill, and the shop tops up with produce from other organic growers so the range holds up all year round.Conygree FarmMeat, fruit, veg & eggs · Cheltenham4.9 (15 reviews)Conygree Farm is a 180 acre National Trust farm on the Sherborne Park Estate in the heart of the Cotswolds, tenanted since 2004 by Jonty and Mel Brunyee, who farm to organic, pasture fed, agroecological and regenerative principles. Rare breed Traditional Hereford cattle and Cotswold sheep graze wildflower grasslands and herbal leys, and a market garden grows salad and vegetable crops. Jonty is a Nuffield Farming Scholar who helped launch FarmED, the Cotswolds centre for farm and food education, and Mel managed conservation grazing for Norfolk Wildlife Trust for twelve years.
The pop up farm shop in the farmyard opens every Saturday morning, selling the farm's own organic vegetables, herbs and salad, organic and Pasture Fed beef, lamb, hogget and mutton, free range pork in autumn and winter, wildflower honey and pastured soya free eggs, alongside products from farming friends and local artisans who share their ethos. Meat also sells as joints and boxes, veg boxes deliver weekly, and the farm hosts farm walks, courses, tipi events and glamping.Boyd Farms Cotswolds BeefMeat · Cheltenham4.8 (10 reviews)Cotswold Beef comes from the Boyd family's farm at Whittington near Cheltenham, where Ian and Cathy Boyd farm with their daughter Steph Ackrill. Their herd of Hereford cattle is raised organically and 100% pasture fed, grazing with no grain, on a farm managed with wildlife in mind.
The beef sells online in boxes, from a taster box or the popular sausage and burger box through to slow cook, offal, marrow bone and BBQ boxes, with delivery or collection. The family also offers places to stay on the farm if you fancy seeing where your beef comes from.
Ruscombe Farm PartnershipMeat · Stroud5 (7 reviews)Ruscombe Farm keeps a pedigree herd of Red Poll cattle a couple of miles outside Stroud in the Ruscombe Valley, Gloucestershire. The herd grazes exclusively on grassland around Ruscombe, on pasture rich in herbs, wildflowers and clovers, and the cattle fatten on grass alone with no additional grain feed. If needed they come in for a couple of months in winter and are fed hay made in the valley.
The beef is sold direct through a box scheme, hung for over four weeks and vacuum packed, with boxes collected from the farm or sent by courier. The herd has won the Red Poll Cattle Society's southern region small herd title several times, plus the national small herd title in 2015, and the beef took National Trust Fine Farm Produce Awards in 2015 and 2016. Richard and Rebecca take orders by phone or email, first come first served.
The Sandy Hill MobMeat & eggs · Cheltenham5 (6 reviews)The Sandy Hill Mob raise beef cattle at Sandy Hill Farm in Sherborne, Gloucestershire, grazing pasture that includes historic parkland and herbal leys. The herd is 100% grass fed and Pasture For Life certified, eating pasture and forage for life, and the farm also keeps hens for pastured eggs and sells its own honey and biltong.
Beef is sold in boxes, from a small box of steaks, mince and stewing cuts up to extra large boxes with roasting joints, released in batches through the year. Local delivery costs a small fee, orders further afield travel by courier in insulated wool boxes, and collection from the farm can be arranged. They also sell organic pork from Eastleach Downs Organic Farm.
Hayloft FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · StroudHayloft Farm is a calf at foot micro dairy in Horsley near Stroud, run by Nell and Ed. They began their smallholding with help from a neighbour and a wish to know exactly where their food came from, and their aim is to supply themselves and the local community with free range, low mileage, high welfare produce.
The farm sells raw A2A2 Jersey milk along with home reared pork straight from the farm, lamb, grass finished beef from their Shetland cattle, duck eggs and raw honey. Collection is daily in the early evening.
The DillayMeat · StroudThe Dillay is a farm folded into two interlocking valleys near Stroud in Gloucestershire, raising one of Britain's oldest native breeds, Dexter cattle, as a Pasture for Life certified herd. The Dexters are 100% pasture fed from birth, grazing the hidden valleys, wildflower meadows and pesticide free woodland edges for much of the year and wintering outdoors on the high pastures on hay from the Dillay's own and neighbouring meadows. Stock animals stay at least four years, over twice the UK average, before specialist butchers dry age the beef for 28 to 35 days.
Alongside the beef, wild fallow, roe and muntjac venison comes from the valley's woodlands, bees distil the valley into creamy honey, and small batch tallow and blackberry preserve round out the boxes. Orders are bespoke, delivered across the UK, and special edition boxes include Valley Objects, pieces hand made by local artists from the valley's own clay and wood.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
