Local Food and Farmers' Markets
Local Food and Drink Producers
Dartmoor is home to small traditional farms and other businesses, many of which sell their goods direct to you, the customer. So rather than joining the queue at the supermarket, buy local, support local producers and the future of Dartmoor.
As you are travelling around keep a look out for farms selling their own produce direct form the farm. Choose those shops, pubs and restaurants that offer the best of quality local produce and if in doubt don’t be afraid to ask.
Local produce markets are also great fun to go along to. They only sell produce from a defined local area and the stallholders are the farmers and producers themselves so you can easily find all about what you are buying. A number of markets take place on or around the moor.
Bovey Tracey, town centre
Saturday morning, fortnightly from 14 Jan 2006
Tina Richardson: (01626) 835363
Ivybridge, town centre car park
3rd Saturday of month
Jenny Farmer (01803) 861202
Newton Abbot, town centre
Every Tuesday
Mick Ford: (01626) 215427
Teign Valley Farmers’ Market, Community Hall, Christow
Every Wednesday morning
Bryony Falch: 01647 252887
Okehampton
3rd Saturday
Christine Brown: (01363) 83279
www.okehamptondevon.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Widecombe-in-the-Moor Village Market
The Church House, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 10 am – 4 pm.
This popular Market brings together a wide variety of local producers and suppliers and is held once a month.
Everything sold at the market has a local link, with a superb selection of hand made furniture, deli goods, plants and herbs, breads and preserves, Widecombe blended leaf tea and ground coffee.
Market dates:
- 22 April 2006
- 20 May 2006
- 24 June 2006
- 22 July 2006
- 26 August 2006
- 23 September 2006
- 28 October 2006
- 25 November 2006
- 16 December 2006
Local Food and Drink Producers
RJR and SA Ashford
Bowden Farm, Buckfastleigh, Devon,
Tel; (01364) 643955
Organic Beef and Lamb produced from the farm.
Local deliveries, also chilled box scheme. Also supply some local pubs and hotels.
B&M Farming, Lovaton Farm Partnership
Lovaton Farm, South Tawton, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2RA
Tel: (01647) 231649
Email: lovaton@btopenworld.com
www.traditionallyrearedmeat.co.uk/ (external link, opens new window)
Dexter beef is reared in a traditional manner on land in the countryside stewardship scheme. Home bred & fed, home produced feeds. The Gloucester old spot pigs roam freely in paddocks in the summer and straw yards in the winter to produce mouth-watering pork.
Local shops P.O stores (Spreyton), The Stores (S Zeal), Londis (Exeter rd garage Okehampton), Bridge Stores (Bow, Crediton), Spar (N Tawton). Direct to customers - delivered mail order, £10 postage, free for orders over £70.
Blackaller Honey
Rosemary Cottage, North Bovey, Devon TQ13 8RA
Tel: (01647) 440322
Email:peter@blackaller.fsbusiness.co.uk
http://www.blackaller.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Honey and Bee products
Farmers’ markets in Crediton, Bovey Tracey, Exeter, Teignmouth + retail outlets.
Bottor Rock Farm
Hennock, Newton Abbot
Tel: (01626) 834247
Bottor Rock potatoes (12.5kg or 25kg). Beef in 1/8 mixed packs ready for freezer. Lamb, half or whole, all jointed and bagged ready for freezer.
All produce collected from farm. Some delivery can be arranged. Beef and lamb £5/kg.
Bramley and Gage
4 Long Meadow, south Brent, TQ10 9YT
Tel: (01364) 73722
Email: edward@bramleyandgage.com
www.bramleyandgage.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Fruit Liqueurs, sloe and damson gins. All fruit sourced as locally as possible, made in the traditional way with no added flavouring, colouring or preservatives.
Buckfast Abbey, Buckland Abbey, Dartington Cider Press, Riverford Goes to Town, Rosemoor, Knighthayes & other shops in Dartmouth, Modbury, Salcombe and Tavistock.
Brimpts Farm/Beef Box
Brimpts Farm, Dartmeet, Dartmoor, Devon
Tel: (01364) 631 179
Email: info@brimptsfarm.co.uk
http://www.brimptsfarm.co.uk/ (external link, opens new window)
Beef direct to your door around the country, also available from farm shop, Winners of Devon Life magazine best food producers award 2005, Winners of westcountry farm diversification award 2005 at Royal Bath and West Show. Mail order - £30 minimum. Farm shop open all year - please call for details.
Browne's Chocolates
Throwleigh, Devon, EX20 2HX
Tel: (0845) 456 0568
Email: sales@brownes.co.uk
www.brownes.co.uk/ (external link,opens new window)
Handmade chocolates.
Independent retailers throughout the region. No retail outlet here.
Buckfast Organic Bakery
Hamlyn house, Mardle Way, Buckfastleigh,
Tel: (01364) 642279
Email: sally@clivespies.co.uk
Vegetarian, organic pies and pasties. Gluten-free savoury pies. Luxury gluten-free cakes. Organic quality flapjacks.
Distribution via refrigerated courier or own refrigerated van.
Colston Farm 'Proper Pork'
Colston Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0LW
Tel: (01364) 643836
Traditional, slowly produced pork & ham from saddleback & Welsh white pigs, living a happy & contented life, slaughtered & butchered locally, free local delivery fresh or frozen.
Free local delivery (personally), no minimum, Buckfastleigh farmers’ market, Ilsington country store, Widecombe Post Office & store, restaurants and pubs in Buckfastleigh area.
Dartmoor Delectables
Whistle Cottage, The Old Station, Horrabridge, PL20 7RQ
Tel: (01822) 854729
Email: sue@goldingcook.com
http://www.dartmoordelectables.com (external link, opens new window)
Handmade preserves (jam, marmalade, chutneys, pickles) made in own Dartmoor kitchen. Locally sourced/grown produce used as much as possible. Reviving interest in unusual and old fashioned recipes e.g. marrow and ginger jam, highdumpsydeary jam.
Tavistock country market and Tavistock farmers’ market as part of a country market co-operative.
Dartmoor Kitchen
Little Ash Farm, Whiddon Down, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2QG
Tel: (01647) 231130
Email: info@dartmoorkitchen.com
Award winning pies, puddings and tarts using a mix of organic, local and seasonal ingredients. Pies include Devon steak and potato, roast butternut squash and tomato, game or potato, cheese and onion. The choice of puddings includes prune and almond, apple cake and fresh berry cheesecake. Tarts include smoked trout, courgette and sweet pepper, and asparagus and goats cheese.
Deliveries to pubs and specialist food shops twice a week. Direct from farm, 6 days a week. Home deliveries dependant on order/location.
Deer Force 10
c/o Mardlewood House, Higher Coombe, Scorriton, Buckfastleigh
Tel: (01364) 644420
Email: pmarding@hotmail.com
Organic Venison (soil association).
Riverfood farm shop or Rodney Cleave butchers in Ashburton.
Devonshire Farmhouse Ice Cream Ltd
Kittson View, Higher Murchington Farm, Chagford, TQ13 8HJ
Tel: (01647) 433170
Email: dfic@talk21.com
http://www.devonshirefarmhouse.com (external link, opens new window)
Bottled milk, clotted, double, single, whipping cream, luxury dairy ice cream, sorbets, and diabetic ice cream.
Retail, wholesale, home delivery (minimum order £25), mail order clotted cream.
Dunns Dairy
Beacon View Farm, Drewsteignton, Exeter EX6 6PF
Tel: (01647) 231452
Email: dunn_019@fsmail
Milk, Cream, Butter, Eggs.
On-site farm shop open 7am-5 pm Monday to Saturday. Supply various shops, hotels etc throughout Devon. Doorstep deliveries with no minimum order.
Frenchbeer Farm Ltd
Frenchbeer Farm, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8EX
Tel: (01647) 432427
Traditional free range or barn reared turkeys for Christmas, Aberdeen angus cross beef, reared & finished on Dartmoor, hung for flavour & succulence. Heather lamb, a true delicacy - available late summer/ autumn. Heather mutton - specially produced from our Scottish blackface flock. Farm gate sales - please phone.
Haldon Woods Farm
Sourton Cross, Okehampton, EX20 4HX.
And Binkham, Yelverton, PL20.
Tel: (01822) 854652
Email: trishcarrington@tiscali.co.uk
Home produced and reared beef, lamb, mutton, pork. 15 varieties of sausages, bacon, gammon steaks, lamb and mint sausages and burgers. Eggs (chicken and duck, when available). Discounted barbecue, camper and freezer packs of meats. All meats sold frozen.
Collection from farm and by telephone order, free delivery within 25 miles.
Happy Hogs Ltd
Moorlands Farm Shop, Whiddon Down, Exeter, EX20 2QL
Tel: (01647) 213666
Email: sargent@tinyonline.co.uk
www.moorlandsfarmshop.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
20 types of sausage, dry cured bacon, free range pork, organic beef, lamb and pork, game in season. Moorlands Farm Shop. Exeter, Tavistock and Okehampton farmers’ markets, and via mail order and the internet, free delivery on orders over £100.
Heaven Scent Herbs
Unit 9, Gidleys Meadow, Christow, Exeter, Devon, EX6 7HR
Tel: (01647) 252847
Email: anne@heavenscenthearbs.co.uk
www.heavenscentherbs.co.uk (external link,opens new window)
Handmade herb and spice mustards
Mail order service available, callers by appointment only.
Hogs Bottom Garden Delights
Unit 5a Westbridge Street, Tavistock, Devon, PL19 HDE
Tel: (01822) 613013
Email: hogsbot@aol.com
www.hogsbot.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Cordial fruit vinegars, salad dressings, marmalade/chutneys/preserves, assorted cooked pies/quiches, All made from as much local produce as possible. Direct through farmers’ markets. Wholesale to about 50 shops/farm shops/cafés etc. Supply a few local pubs. Will soon be selling online.
Little Ash Farm
Little Ash Farm, Whiddon Down, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2QG
Tel: (01647) 231130
Email: info@littleashfarm.com
www.littleashfarm.com (external link, opens new window)
Organic Eggs, Salad bags, herbs, vegetables and fruit.
Farm shop, Monday – Saturday 9 am – 5 pm
Luscombe Organic Drinks
Luscombe Farm, Colston Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0LP
Tel: (08451) 303036
Email: info@luscombe.co.uk
www.luscombe.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Organic fruit juices and traditional soft drinks including the gold medal award winning 'hot ginger beer'. Riverfood farm shops, Buckfastleigh and Christow farmers’ markets, local health food shops, deli's and garden centres. Mail order available.
Moorland Mist
Mitchelcombe Farm, Holne, Newton Abbot, TQ13 7SP
(01364) 631528
Email: clearlydevon@hotmail.com
Dartmoor water, supplied in returnable bottles - 250, 330, 750ml & 1litre glass bottles with still or sparkling water. 1, 5, 13, 15 & 19 litre HDPE bottles, still water for use with coolers and porcelain crocks.
Home delivery, trade sales to farm shops, health shops, pubs, hotels and restaurants (minimum order 4 crates). Contract bottling for 'own label' customers
Richard and Caroline Mann
Great Dunstone, Widecombe, Newton Abbot, TQ13 7TH
Tel: (01364) 621233
Email: greatdunstone@btinternet.com
Beef is sold in mixed 1/8ths or freezer packs consisting of: 2 x 8 oz rump steaks, 2 x 2-3lb topside, 5 x 0.5 kg braising steak, 5 x 0.5 kg mince. Lamb is sold in 1/2s or whole. Beefburgers and sausages also available.
Postal orders nationwide or minimum order of £30 to be delivered within a 30mile radius of Widecombe-in-theMoor.
Sherberton Beef and Lamb
Sherberton Farm, Princetown, Yelverton, PL20 6SF
Tel: (01364) 631276
Email: wood@anton-coaker.co.uk
www.anton-coaker.co.uk (external link,opens new window)
Home reared beef and lamb supplied fresh or frozen. Beef is supplied at one price per kilo and mixed orders are supplied. The meat comes in freezer friendly packs of a sensible weight, but specific weights can be catered for. Lamb is supplied by the half, jointed. Being hill lambs, halves are not huge and thus suit families or couples.
Deliver locally (radius 30 miles) and can collect from farm. Minimum order 5 kilos of mixed cuts.
Tor to Tor Meat Delivery Service
Holwell Farm, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 7TT
Tel: (01647) 221335
Email: meat@holwelldartmoor.co.uk
www.holwelldartmoor.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Free delivery of Dartmoor’s finest fresh and frozen meat, all reared on moor farms. Pork - free range English saddleback pigs from Widecombe-in-the-Moor, whole or half pigs or choose the following: flavoured sausages, joints, bacon, hams, suckling pigs. Beef - Aberdeen angus cross galloway & south Devon and dexter, bred & fed at Widecombe. Lamb - organic from Holne. Seasonal game - from estates on Dartmoor including venison and pheasant. Fresh farm eggs. Delivers meat and eggs, no minimum order or delivery charge to residents and businesses on Dartmoor and outlying villages. Also attend monthly village market in church house at Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
Ullacombe Farm
Ullacombe Farm, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9LL
Tel: (01364) 661341
Email: ullacombefarm@googlemail.com
Homemade bread, cakes, savouries, ready made meals & preserves made in farm kitchen. Organic veg grown in the kitchen garden and polytunnel, free range eggs, plus other local produce, Widecombe Beef, Torbryan Pork, free range Chicken. Farm shop: Mondays: closed, Tues - Fri: 9.30 am - 6 pm, sat: 9.30 am - 5 pm, sun 10 am - 4 pm.
Well Hung Meat
Tordean Farm, Dean Prior, Buckfastleigh.
Tel: 0845 230 3131
Email: sales@wellhungmeat.com
www.wellhungmeat.com (external link, opens new window)
Award winning (4 soil association food awards in 4 years) beef, lamb, pork, poultry, bacon and sausages by mail order. Monthly meat boxes containing all of the above.
Farm shop, postal/internet, farmers’ markets.
Wild Beef
Hillhead Farm, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8DY
Tel: (01647) 433433
High quality beef from native breeds of cattle. Reared and finished off unimproved grassland, they are killed locally and the meat is hung for at least 3 weeks. Available by home delivery, mail order and produce markets nationally. Mail order, home delivery - no minimum order, free delivery > £15. Crediton farmers’ markets. London markets.
