Four miles southeast of Devizes is the Old Potato Yard, a place with an agricultural past but a creative future. Various retail businesses now fill the old farm buildings, the largest of them being Plank’s Farm Shop which first threw open its doors in 2007 and has earned a reputation for being a friendly and inviting place.
It is packed with the usual farm shop essentials of fresh fruit and vegetables and local bread, milk, cheese and eggs but also displays a fabulous range of gourmet treats. The in-house kitchen with its team of chefs produces ready meals with a difference – quiches, pies, soups, salads, cakes and deserts which you can take home with you to enjoy fine dining every day.
There is also a mouth-watering butchery run by the lovely Hannah who makes her own sausages, burgers, faggots, marinated kebabs and BBQ packs. She is onsite three days a week to answer any meaty questions!
Household goods fill another bank of shelves, and a refill section caters to those wanting to reduce their use of unnecessary packaging. Also on offer is an external catering service where delicious food can be provided for any type of gathering from a small drinks party to a seated dinner for 150 people or a work lunch with boxed sandwiches. Plank’s really do seem to do it all!
A recent addition of an ice cream counter means you can treat yourself to a Marshfield ice cream when you have completed your shop and enjoy a leisurely wander around the rest of the old yard and have a poke in the neighbouring local businesses.
Find out more at www.planksfarmshop.co.uk.
