At Riverford Farm Shop we are committed to providing fresh, unadulterated food, produced without damaging the environment, selling certifiably organic and local products wherever possible. Also, we aim to provide food at prices affordable by customers with a real interest in good, healthy food.

If something is certified 'organic', so much the better - but it must also satisfy other criteria. Often the magic word ‘organic’ is not enough. For example we try not to sell over processed, organic food, but we do sell non-organic, GM and additive free pork and local, conventional vegetables from Kitley Pick Your Own.

'Local' has become another of those magic words. In an ideal world, food would be locally grown, locally processed, locally sold and locally consumed. However, purists do accept that with some foods the principle of 'local food' can only require that the processing of the food should be as close to source as possible. It seems quite obvious that we cannot grow bananas and coca beans in Devon. So, while most of our meat and vegetable suppliers are local, selling locally reared meat and locally grown crops, especially vegetable suppliers, may sometimes have to import goods from other regions.

Enough said. Click on any one of the following categories for more information about those who supply us with our excellent fresh produce.

Though you will find the information in each of these categories relates to regular suppliers, those visiting our shops will also find produce from people local to the shop who may have a bumper crop of unsprayed apples, or a garden full of flowers to dispose of. If the produce is good we will be interested in adding it to our fresh produce section.