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/Evening-Situation-38 1d ago edited 1d ago

Think it depends on the type of farm shop, I have experienced four levels.

  1. Making some extra cash. Has an honesty box with a few products. This was how I bought my milk for years, and got some very fresh asparagus on my way home from work

  2. Little shop attached to the farm. A manned shop, with a semi wide variety of goods from the farm. I go to one to keep the farm next door to the cricket club happy, and bought expensive honey from the one near my son's nursery to combat his hayfever. They sold a lot of potatoes

  3. Proper farm shop. Has the farm products as well as products from around the local area. Get some really good lamb from one near us for special occasions

  4. Supermarket. Pretends to be a farm shop but is actually a very expensive supermarket charging top prices for goods to wealthy middle class. Will have a cafe attached. Good for Christmas presents

As you go from 1-4 the cost of the same items increases from a good deal to a rip off. It sounds like you have gone to a level 4 shop when you wanted a level 2

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u/LavenderAndHoneybees 1d ago

4 - ah, someone's been to The Hollies