Our vegetables are predominantly organic, and local, but we also stock good quality unsprayed crops, some conventional - like asparagus from Kitley - and some not so local, like bananas, because they simply can't be grown locally.

Riverford Organic Vegetables, at Wash Barn, Buckfastleigh, supply us with most of our ‘main crop’ vegetables and we buy many of our imported fruit and veg through them. Much of the production at Wash Barn is soft fruit, salads, herbs and fairly specialist vegetables.

The main crop vegetables are grown by South Devon Organic Producer Group, a coop of local farmers formed by Guy Watson about 10 years ago. Last year the Riverford Field Kitchen opened at Wash to rave reviews from, amongst others, Gordon Ramsey.

Other suppliers include Hafod Farm, Stoke in Teignhead; Heart of Devon Organics - based in Exeter, and on the unsprayed side from Harefield Growers in Staverton, Kitley Pick Your Own, and of course our potatoes from Philip Knight in Dartmouth.

Autumn/winter vegetables..

At the moment the shelves are heaving with some of the best the south West produces; roots and greens. Fabulous swede, parsnip, carrot and beetroot abound and several varieties of cabbage including the weighty red. Still we have squash in a variety of sizes, colours and types and lots of different potatoes, onions, shallots and leeks. It really is a good season for vegetables of enormous flavour - and size - just the job for hearty soups, stews and (with roots) for roastin. And with the end of the year in sight the glorious sprout is flying out the door as fast as we can get it in.