The Farm Shop

Grown within a mile of the till

Everything on our shelves is grown on the land around the shop. When a crop is over, it is gone until next year.

Open Tuesday to Sunday, 9 to 5

Baskets of red, yellow and dark heirloom tomatoes
A wicker basket of ripe strawberries on the grass
A woman stacks wooden crates of apples in a farm market

The shelf follows the calendar

Each crop is on sale for the weeks it ripens here, and not before.

June to July

Strawberries

Two months on the shelf, then gone until next summer.

A wicker basket of ripe strawberries on the grass

July to September

Tomatoes

Red, yellow and dark heirloom tomatoes through the late summer.

Baskets of red, yellow and dark heirloom tomatoes

September to December

Apples

The longest season we have: four months, into the winter.

A woman stacks wooden crates of apples in a farm market
Farm workers sorting fresh apples from a wheelbarrow beside a truck

Saturdays

The juice press runs on Saturdays

Come on a Saturday and the press is working in the shop. Ask at the till what is going through it that week.

One mile from field to till

The wheat field, the orchard and the hives all sit inside that mile.

A green combine harvester cutting a field of ripe wheat

The fields

The wheat field at harvest.

A beekeeper with a smoker lifting a frame from a white hive

The hives

Where the honey on our shelf comes from.

Honey pouring from a tap through a strainer into a bucket

The honey room

Strained before it goes into jars.

Also on the shelf

These come and go through the year. Ask at the till what is in this week.

Baskets of red potatoes on a market stall table

Potatoes

Red potatoes, when the crop is ready.

Orange and grey-green pumpkins and squash on the grass

Squash and pumpkins

Orange and grey-green, when they are ready.

Jars of honey with a piece of comb inside, in a row

Honey

From our own hives, some jars with comb inside.

Come and see what is ripe

Open Tuesday to Sunday, 9 to 5

Closed on Mondays. The juice press runs on Saturdays.

Photos, public domain: George Chernilevsky (strawberries, squash); USDA (apples, potatoes); Preston Keres, USDA (tomatoes); Government of Antigua and Barbuda (honey jars); Migco (hives); DHSgov (honey straining); NPS Staff (orchard); USDAgov (wheat harvest).