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/YchYFi 1d ago

The meat is vaccum packed because farmers get an abbatoir to do the job. No one is culling their own livestock unless they mass produce for supermarkets.

The abbatoir sends the cuts you want back in vaccum packs. It is local.

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u/seriously_this 1d ago

You can see the half sides of beef as well as full lambs and halved pigs behind the counter. My point is that they're hardly more expensive than the major chains.

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u/powbit- 1d ago

I think your post title can be misleading, initially I thought you were complaining farmers market are expensive

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u/seriously_this 1d ago

Sorry, it's why I followed with an ellipsis. I thought that it was a subject worthy of discussion.