4 best honey farms in Gloucestershire

Abbey Home Farm
Cirencester · Raw honey, butcher4.5 · 474 reviewsAbbey 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.
The Sandy Hill Mob
Cheltenham · Raw honey, butcher5.0 · 6 reviewsThe 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.
The Dillay
Stroud · Raw honey, butcher4.8 · 5 reviewsThe 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.
Hayloft Farm
Stroud · Raw honey, raw milkHayloft 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.

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