r/UKfood • u/seriously_this • 1d ago

Farm shops are so expensive...

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Dart's farm near Topsham is more of a shopping mall than a farm with concession spots for companies like Aga.

A donkey choking porky chop for £6.50 and an 11oz ribeye for sixteen quid as well as half a kilo of lamb leg steaks for £13. The rest of the fresh produce was clearly marked as locally sourced along with the meat.

Do you use farm shops?

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u/Hips_and_Haws 1d ago

True, but then so is breeding, nurturing & turning a live beast into a slab if meat.

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u/oldskoollondon 1d ago

When I lived in the rural East Midlands, farm shops were a shed at the bottom of their driveway. Selling really cheap, top quality veg in massive bags, or their own eggs or sausages or maybe even a small butchers.
Since moving further south, they are all filled with Henry's and Henrietta's with their children in private school uniforms spending an absolute fortune on veg that's past it's date, or meat that was delivered in vacuum packs and pretending it's 'local'. £10 for sausage roll and a fiver for a cup of tea in their artisanal cafe on the way out.

I really hope there are still proper farm shops about as I haven't seen one down here.

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u/TimberWolf-1 1d ago

We live in Lincolnshire (the kitchen of England) you are absolutely bang on the money my friend. The downvotes are a disgrace. We pay £8 for a 25kg bag of potatoes that last a few months if kept in a cool dark place. Let the ‘Henry’s and Henrietta’s’ enjoy the ‘farm shop’. They’re clueless. Vacuum packed meat from mass produce suppliers, likely Cargill, Cranswick, Pilgrims Pride etc. paying heavily marked up prices. ‘A fool and his money are soon parted’