Don't you just LOVE farm shops?

[Sparrow]

I don't know if this is the right forum to wax lyrical, but I just visited a great farm shop in N. Yorkshire.

So, if any of you happen to be having a trip up to the Helmsley/Pickering area, either for a holiday, or just a drive, you should check out:

www.beadlamgrange.co.uk

It is a great place to have a meal (their Winter ploughman's lunch is to DIE for). They have a butcher on the premises, which sells meat from several local farms (including Beadlam Grange itself). Also home baked bread, cakes, cheeses and local veggies.

It is only closed on Mondays.

Back to New Zealand for me tomorrow.

[franbee]

I'll put that on the list for our weekends, Sparrow, it's always useful to have somewhere nice to go.

[Healing Hands]

Safe trip back to NZ Sparrow.

[eleanor2]

i love farm shops and farmers markets.its great to buy local foodstuffs especially if you can get it organic.

[sunflower]

Hi Sparrow, I did'nt know you were over here. Hope you have had a lovely time.

[emjay53]

I like Farmers markets better than Farm Shops. We have some great Farmers Mkts in Dorset, and always very good quality food available at reasonable prices. I just hope that the fuel price crisis doesnt drive them out of business or force the cost of the food up so much that it becomes impossible to sustain the markets. I would say tht the supermarkets would like that to happen.

I like Farm Shops if they are the genuine thing, but I have visited at least one near me that has become so commercialised that its difficult to tell where the Farm Shop ends and the supermarket begins. They have a cafe there too, and we ate there once and my husband found a long hair in his ciabatta. He returned it and was given another one, only to find another hair in it. Could not believe it, havent been to that place since.

There is a great Farm Shop in a village near my daughter, and they do lots of lotions and potions too, great for browsing and present shopping.

Whenever I go up country to visit relatives I always stock up at the Farmers Market or this particular shop on local Dorset goodies for the family, they love it all.

[Treehugger]

We have a HUGE outlet that has opened near us under the guise of being a farm shop, it literally is massive. When OH and I went to have a nosey on Sunday we were very disappointed as it was like something out of Disney with plastic cows etc and the produce in fake wooden boxes to give the place that 'rustic' feel. There were literally coach outings to the place! We were very disappointed and the price of things were ridiculous.

[Crocus]

We visited a lovely farm shop on our way from Wales to Somerset, somewhere near Cheddar Gorge. We bought the most delicious licquorice at this shop, soft, gooy with quite a concentrated licquorice flavour. I can't even remember half of the wonderful stuff in this shop, but I was like a little girl in a toyshop!


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