Farm shop · Kitchen · Pick your own · Since 1952
Grown in the valley, sold at the gate.
A family farm shop, kitchen and pick-your-own in the Lyth Valley. Fruit and vegetables from our own fields, meat from our own pastures, bread baked before the doors open.
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01 — Today at the farm
What’s happening on the farm.
Farm shop
Tue–Sun 9am–5pm
Kitchen
Tue–Sun 9am–4pm · lunch 12–3
Pick your own
Apples, pumpkins and autumn raspberries ready in the top fields. Last entry 4pm.
Open today
Fresh today
Damson & almond tart · Bramleys by the crate · Lamb from the Fell pasture · Sourdough at 9
02 — In season now
What’s good in
This list changes by itself every month: it shows what the Months in Season field says is ready now.
Grown here
Lyth Valley damsons
£4.50
per kg
Grown here
Bramley apples
£2.20
per kg
Grown here
Cox & Russet apples
£3.00
per kg
Grown here
Strawberries
£6.00
per kg
Grown here
Raspberries
£9.00
per kg
Grown here
Pumpkins & squash
£3.50
each, from
Grown here
New potatoes
£2.80
per kg
Grown here
Kale & cavolo nero
£2.00
per bunch
Grown here
Leeks
£2.40
per bunch
Grown here
Asparagus
£5.00
per bunch
Reared here
Lamb
£16.00
per kg
Reared here
Free-range eggs
£3.60
per half dozen
Made here
Damson jam
£5.50
per jar
Baked here
Sourdough
£4.80
per loaf
Gifts
Farm hamper
£45.00
from
Gifts
Gift vouchers
£25.00
from
03 — The farm shop
Grown here, made here, sold at the gate.
Fruit and veg from our fields, lamb from the fell, eggs from the orchard and bread baked before we open.
04 — The kitchen
Breakfast, a long lunch, and cake by the big window.
Everything on the menu starts in the fields outside. Soup from the market garden, lamb hotpot from the fell, and the damson & almond tart people drive over the pass for.
Tue–Sun 9am–4pm · lunch 12–3
05 — Pick your own
Bring wellies. We’ll lend you the basket.
Open today
Apples, pumpkins and autumn raspberries ready in the top fields. Last entry 4pm.
N° 06 — A year on the farm
Moments from the valley
07 — Veg boxes
The farm, delivered every Thursday.
Small box
£18
/ week
£20
/ box
1–2 people
Seven or eight kinds of whatever is best in the fields this week.
Family box
£26
/ week
£28
/ box
3–5 people
Our most popular box: enough veg for a busy household for a week.
Fruit & veg box
£32
/ week
£34
/ box
2–4 people
The family box with extra fruit, a loaf of sourdough and a jar from the shop.
Delivered every Thursday within 15 miles of the farm, or collect from the shop from Thursday noon. Pause or cancel any time.
08 — What’s on
Suppers, workshops and pumpkin weekends.
Supper club
7pm–10.30pm
Summer supper club
A long summer evening in the orchard with strawberries, lamb and new potatoes.
Workshop
10am–1pm
Jam & chutney class
Learn Mum’s damson jam and a Bramley chutney, and take six jars home.
Seasonal
10am–4pm
Pumpkin weekend
Pick your own pumpkin, hay bale maze, apple bobbing and hot soup from the kitchen.
Supper club
7pm–10.30pm
Harvest supper club
Five courses in the barn, made with what came in from the fields that week.
Workshop
2pm–5pm
Wreath-making workshop
Make a Christmas door wreath from foliage cut on the farm, with mulled apple juice and mince pies.
Seasonal
10am–4pm
Christmas market
Twenty local makers in the barns, carols at three and our own Christmas trees for sale.
Family
10am–4pm
Lambing weekend
Meet the new lambs, watch the shearing demo and bottle-feed the orphans.
09 — Adopt a tree
Adopt a damson tree. Follow its seasons.
Adopt one of our Lyth Valley damson trees for a year. You’ll get a name tag on your tree, a jar of its jam in September, and an open invitation to come and pick from it.
A tree with your name on it, not another thing to keep in a drawer.
10 — Find your way
Shop, kitchen, fields and huts, all within a short walk.
Tap a number on the map to see what’s there.
11 — Kind words
Notes from the gate.
The best farm shop in Cumbria, and I’ve tried most of them. Come for the bread, stay for the tart.
Sarah, Kendal
Shop
We pick strawberries here every June. My children think it’s the best day of the year, and they might be right.
The Hall family, Lancaster
Pick your own
Two nights in the Damson Hut, a copper bath under the stars and breakfast at the door. We didn’t want to leave.
Ellie & Tom, Manchester
Stay
12 — Field notes
From the farm, the kitchen and the season.
Shop news
The shop is open on Mondays in December
Christmas hours, hamper orders and when to book your turkey.
In season
What’s in the boxes this October
Squash, leeks, the first kale and the last raspberries: what’s going into the boxes this month and how we cook it.
On the farm
Why we still grow damsons on the bank
Forty trees, three hundred years of valley tradition, and a fruit almost nobody eats straight from the tree. Here’s why we keep them.
Come and see what’s ready.
The shop opens at nine, the kettle’s on by ten, and the fields are open for picking most days from June to October.