Our guests often ask me where to find farm shops so that they can buy locally sourced fresh food. Blue Monkey is situated a stone’s throw from the beach which affords us plenty of fresh fish and our local foraging expert can take you out for a day’s foraging and teach you how to eat for free from the beaches and hedgerows. See our Concierge page for more information and ask Annabel to arrange them for you.
For farm fresh vegetables and sustainably sourced meat, there are plenty of farm shops near Cawsand:
Treddinick Farm Shop near Cawsand
Thirty minutes-drive from Blue Monkey. This farm shop has everything including local beers, wines and spirits. Everything is locally grown and fresh every day: fresh fruit, veg, milk, meat, pet food and many other Cornish goodies. Kale and sprouts on stalks are in season at time of writing (November).
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 9am-6pm, Sun: 10am-5pm
Top tip: Treddinick say the best way to ripen fruit at home is to put bananas with them! Who knew?!
An online platform used by many local farm shops. Place an order with them before you arrive in Cornwall and they will hand pick, deliver and unpack the best quality produce for you. No need to shop when you arrive in Cornwall – you can simply relax and enjoy your holiday.
Top Tip: this company deliver 7 days a week and use only Cornish sourced food.
A short drive from Blue Monkey at Torpoint. The ‘In’ Butchers is family run, providing ‘the best meat in the world’ according to their many 5-star reviews! “We are lucky to have a ‘proper’ butcher supplying the best meat for miles around. Nothing is too much trouble for the chaps and their sausages are out of this world! It makes such a change to see a small business that still puts standards first along with customer satisfaction.”
Praise indeed! Worth a ten-minute drive. You can find them at 22 Fore Street, Torpoint, PL11 2AD.
Top Tip: The most tender cuts of beef, like the rib and tenderloin, are the ones farthest from the horn and hoof. The toughest areas of the animal are the shoulder and leg muscles because they are worked the most.
Quayside Fresh Farm Shop near Cawsand
Why not pop in for a delicious cup of coffee to this fabulous farm shop at Looe. All locally sourced produce and there is a post office too so you can send some postcards whilst you’re there.
Buller Quay, The Quay, Looe PL13 1DX
Trevallick’s Farm Shop near Cawsand
A farm shop with a difference! Here you can indulge in a champagne cream tea, or a gin cream tea! Better not take the car… If you’d rather take your gin home, you can buy a gin taster’s hamper with many different Cornish gins to sample. All the usual farmer’s produce, including local arts and crafts and fun monthly events. Fruits of the season are pears, apples, plums, satsumas
Trevallick Farm Shop is 40 minutes-drive from Blue Monkey at Caradon Farm, Pensilva, PL14 5PJ.
Top Tip: Please call before you go to avoid disappointment.
Widdicombes
Widdicombes is a family run grocery and health food shop. The vegetables are locally grown on the owner’s allotment and all the fresh food is locally sourced including some delicious local wines. Open every day (except Sunday) until 6pm.
Ten minutes-drive from Blue Monkey at 4 West Street, Millbrook.
Top Tip: Widdicombe’s take delivery of fresh organic fruit and vegetables on Wednesdays. They stock many other exciting goods, including personal care items and are currently showcasing a Christmas range.
NEW YEAR IS STILL AVAILABLE! BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
3 to 7 day stays from 29th December 2021.
