Just up the road from the Fabulous Farm Shops Headquarters in Dorset, and a recent addition to their membership, is the delightful Primrose Organic Farm Shop. This small but perfectly formed farm shop looks like something the Pioneers might have built with their bare hands. A little wooden chalet, decorated with bunting, it is as pleasing to the eye as the produce within is to the tastebuds.
Primrose Organic is as wholesome as it gets. The shop is filled with home-produced organic vegetables, meat and eggs from Lymburgh’s Farm which has been in the Primrose family for sixty years. On these fields graze 100% pasture-fed Red Devon cattle whilst the farming team restore hedgerows, ponds, wildflower meadows and winter flood meadows using only ecological and regenerative farming techniques.
The fruit and vegetables in the little shed-shop are announced on social media as soon as they have been harvested from the farm. From farm to fork doesn’t get much more direct than this! Beautiful, fragrant strawberries were on the menu this week, grown on the farm with zero pesticides or chemicals, just delicious swollen berries tasting of sunshine. Also on offer was the first harvest of mange tout, garlic, new potatoes and broad beans – an array of fresh goodies to set the taste buds roaring.
And, to nestle amongst the vegetables, fresh beef ready for roasting or diced or minced, as sausages or burgers, fit for the oven or the BBQ, depending on your preference. The farm shop shouts about the provenance of its meat and rightly so. They are proud of the delicious, healthy, sustainable, high welfare beef produced on the farm. Slow growing and well marbled, the steaks come from happy, healthy cows. Occasionally, there will be the treat of fresh, wild venison shot on the farm or juicy chickens which are supplied by another local producer.
A choice of salad leaves come from another local organic farm, Gold Hill, whilst early tomatoes are from just across the water on the Isle of Wight.
Eating the seasons is made easy with this little gem of a farm shop. Only open on Fridays and Saturdays, it is worth stopping by to see what fresh delights are in store, knowing that whatever is on your plate that day will be pure, wholesome and truly delicious.
Find out more about them at www.primroseorganic.co.uk.
