4.4 from 2,008 reviews across 5 farms
Organised lists 6 farms in Kent, including 6 butchers and 5 farm shops. 2 deliver to your door.
Gibson's Farm ShopFarm shop in Canterbury4.3 (1493 reviews)Gibson's Farm Shop stands at Little Crockshard Farm outside Wingham, near Canterbury, where the Gibson family has farmed for four generations. Bob and Win Gibson began selling apples and pears direct from the farm in 1970, and the purpose built shop that opened in 2010 has grown into a bakery, butchery, deli, dairy, fruit and veg, drinks, florist, garden centre and cafe, with the stated objective of acting as a storefront for Kent producers.
The butchery is the farm's own: free range Aberdeen Angus beef, pork and lamb reared at home, home cured ham and bacon, and sausages made from their own pigs with high meat content in natural casings. Jeff Gibson rears the cows, pigs and sheep and grows a large proportion of their feed, while local suppliers fill the shelves around them, from Kingcott Dairy cheeses to Woodlands free range eggs.Silcocks Farm ShopFarm shop in Tenterden4.6 (214 reviews)Silcocks Farm Shop is a butchery, farm shop and cafe at Silcocks Farm on Grange Road in Tenterden, Kent, in the village of St Michaels. It is a family business selling meat raised on the family's own farm along with a range of local produce.
The butchers shop runs Tuesday to Saturday from 8am to 5pm, and the cafe serves breakfast, lunch and then tea, coffee and cake through the afternoon. Dogs are welcome in the garden room and courtyard seating, assistance dogs are welcome inside, and there is free parking on site.Lower Hardres Farm ShopFarm shop in Canterbury4.6 (147 reviews)Lower Hardres Farm Shop is the local farm shop for Canterbury, sitting in the village of Lower Hardres just south of the city. The shop stocks fresh meat every day from its own farm and from local suppliers, including pork, beef, lamb, poultry and game in season, prepared by the in house butchery. During the summer months the farm invites customers to pick their own fruit, and flowers and plants arrive from local nurseries.
Beyond the butchery counter the shelves carry farm fresh vegetables, local cheeses and milk, ice cream, cakes, jams and chutneys, and everyday items, along with an off licence of local still and sparkling wines, ciders and beers. The shop also supplies logs, coal and pet food. It trades as Kent Farm Gate Foods Limited and is open seven days a week.
Pluckley Farm ShopFarm shop in Ashford4.7 (119 reviews)Pluckley Farm Shop opened in 2010 in the Kent village of Pluckley, founded by a former lawyer whose family have farmed these villages for centuries, with a family tree reaching back to a blacksmith in Hothfield in the late 1600s. What began as a village farm shop grew roots of its own: the family diversified into rearing pigs and moved to their own farm, Dering Farm, in 2021. The famous Pluckley pork is reared in large outdoor paddocks, the pigs fed fruit and veg alongside organic, GM free pig nuts, with no fertilisers or pesticides used on the land and no steroids or antibiotics routinely given.
The shop on Smarden Road sells the farm's own pork alongside freshly baked bread, dairy, fresh fruit and veg, cheese, meat, local beers, wines and spirits, locally made ice cream and bespoke hampers, all sourced from the farm or the local area. The founder's sister Marie has worked in the shop since it opened, with farm shop dog Murphy roaming the farm.
Park Farm ButchersButcher in Cranbrook4.6 (35 reviews)Andrew Clarke and his son William farm around 300 acres of Wealden farmland in the parish of Hawkhurst, running a suckler herd of about 40 Sussex cows and a flock of 150 Romney ewes. The animals graze grass pastures through the summer, with hay, haylage and grass silage made on the farm as the mainstay of their winter feed, and the farm manages wild flower meadows, hedgerows and woodland under the Higher Level Stewardship scheme, with school visits and open days.
The village butcher's shop on Rye Road, opened in 2001, sells the farm's free range, predominantly grass fed beef and lamb with full traceability: a blackboard names the herd and the farm behind the meat on display. Homemade sausages and burgers, dry cured bacon from free range pork, game and produce from like minded local farms fill the counters, and the team runs spit roasts for weddings and events.
Paley FarmButcher in CranbrookPaley Farm is a 700 acre mixed livestock farm just north of Cranbrook in the High Weald of Kent, with records reaching back to the 1550s, now run by Andrew and Charlotte Brooks. The pedigree Sussex herd and Easycare flock are 100% pasture fed and certified Pasture for Life, rotationally grazing herbal leys, and all the grass fed Sussex beef is hung on the bone for at least 28 days. Lambing happens outdoors in April, and the farm works regeneratively, restoring soil, sowing herbal pastures and enhancing biodiversity.
Rare breed Welsh and Saddleback sows crossed with a Tamworth boar give slow grown, free ranging pork, and wild fallow and roe deer roaming the farm provide lean venison. Meat is sold online as boxes, sent by courier, collected from the farm's butchery in Cranbrook run by head butcher Henry Curd, or delivered free locally.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
