The Organic Farm Shop – Pickering – provide one of the widest selections of organic produce in Yorkshire including locally grown vegetables, fruit, meat and eggs, even toiletries, from their shop in Pickering.
They’ll sell you, as far as possible, exactly what you want. No waste, no extra cost, and just a compostable paper bag for packaging. One chilli? One chilli it is. 100g mushrooms? No problem.
They also deliver to the Scarborough, Pickering, Malton and Ryedale areas.
Fairchilds at the Cheese Shop, Scarborough – the husband and wife team of Chris & Ruth aim to bring a range of good quality local, organic, fairtrade, eco-friendly and delicious products to locals and visitors alike.
Chris came to retail after nearly thirty years in teaching; Ruth worked in industry as an accountant for over thirty years and now teaches accounting and maths to adults when not helping in the shop.
Chris and Ruth are both on the committee of the Borough of Scarborough Fairtrade Group, working to spread knowledge and understanding of the benefits of fairtrade. They also aim to supply good quality food, locally-sourced wherever possible.
Alligator Wholefoods, York – established in 1972, they have been providing York with the best in organic food and wholefoods for over thirty years. they stock an extensive range of Fresh Organic fruit, Vegetables, and Wholefood Groceries: Chilled and Frozen Foods – Vegetarian and Vegan burgers, Sausages, pizzas, Organic Milk, Yogurts, Tofu, Ice cream, Dairy free Ice cream, – Asian Cookery Ingredients, Natural Cleaning and Body care products and baby care items. We also sell a variety of fresh baked goods including speciality breads – sourdough rye, spelt, gluten free etc from The Village, Kolos and local bakeries, plus snacks, pasties, locally made samosas and bhajis – vegetarian pates and much more.
They also offer a home delivery service within the area of the York outer ring road.
Hawthorne House Farm Shop – stock a wide range of home-grown and locally sourced seasonal, organic vegetables and fruit. Locally produced organic flour, eggs, milk, butter, yoghurt and cheese, spices, jams and juices. Local and organic meat including chicken, pork, lamb – their own, and available in freezer packs and non-organic sausages and burgers.
The shop is situated on their family farm in the beautiful lower Wharfe Valley between Harrogate and Leeds. they have approximately one acre in constant production of vegetables, including potatoes, leeks, broccoli, onions, kale, spinach, beetroot, salad crops, fruit trees and bushes. It is staffed mostly by family members – 3 generations of Snowdens!
Castle Howard Farm Shop – whether you are looking for a specialist ingredient or something simple and tasty for a barbeque or picnic, you will find just what you want in this Farm Shop.
Their butcher’s counter and delicatessen are well stocked with Yorkshire and British produce, artisan bread, seasonal fruit and vegetables, grocery and store-cupboard essentials. They also stock a good selection of gift food, including confectionery, hampers, local beers and wines.
The Farm Shop is located in the 18th-century Stable Courtyard and is open daily from 10am to 5pm (4pm in January and February). With free admission and ample parking, why not pop in and pick up some great local produce.
Locavore Grocery, Glasgow – Locavore is a social enterprise which exists to help build a more sustainable local food system which is better for our local economy, the environment and our communities. We’re about making the money spent on food do more for the benefit of society and our environment.
We’ve been working with this brief since 2011 to develop ideas and practical solutions which can be used to deliver a better food network. Over this time we have opened a shop, developed a market garden, established a veg box scheme and got lots of people more engaged in thinking about issues around food, where it comes from, and the fairness and sustainability of mainstream supply chains.
Everyone eats food, and the food we choose to eat has far reaching impacts which shape our landscapes, streetscapes and local economic situations. What we eat impacts our health, but also everything else in the world with issues as wide ranging as deforestation, climate change, animal welfare, public health, exploitation of the global poor and workers rights. It’s fair to say we have a lot more than food on our plates.
We think at the root of all these big overwhelming global and local problems is the basic model of the big corporations who run the food system. They exist to extract as much money as possible from customers for the benefit of their shareholders. With supermarket chains in the UK holding 97% the grocery market it’s not much of a surprise that things are in such a dire state.
Our ambition is to continue to grow and scale up what we do so we can trade in the same marketplace as the big corporates, but with our own values and for the benefit of society.
Organic Pantry, Tadcaster – welcome to the Organic Pantry, unlike many organic suppliers we are proud to be a family run organic farm based at Newton Kyme near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. The Watson family have farmed the 300 acres at St Helens for over 100 years. If you come and visit the farm you can find both Jonnie and Fanny working alongside their children to preserve the plant and wildlife for future generations.
Our organic produce has been fully certified since 1999 and is available through our Box Scheme, Farmer’s Markets and our own on-site farm shop. We also have a thriving wholesale business and can supply all our fruit and vegetables on a larger scale. We will deliver straight to your door throughout the North of England, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Northumberland. We also offer an extensive organic shop online with Organic Boxes, Organic Vegetables, Organic Fruit, Organic Meat, Wholefoods and Organic Food.
We take a lot of pride in our flexible approach and the quality of our customer service alongside providing our customers with Award-winning produce.
Wayside Organics – an organic smallholding set in the village of Oving, at the base of the South Downs in West Sussex. We specialise in salad crops, soft & top fruit and a wide range of vegetables all grown to the standards set down by the Soil Association: our organic integrity is assured. We supply to all aspects of the organic market, from wholesale to farm shops, box schemes, caterers & delicatessens, to retail including our own box scheme and farm gate sales. We have recently added an Online Shop to our website so you can order online if you prefer. 
North East Organic Growers – a worker’s co-operative based in the village of Bomarsund, near Bedlington, twelve miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne. Existing since 1995, we grow organic vegetables on our twelve acre site, and run a “box scheme”, which is a cost-effective way of buying organically-certified seasonal vegetables and fruit on a regular basis.
Our box scheme supplies customers throughout the North-East of England.
Unicorn Grocery – Based in Chorlton, South Manchester, Unicorn offers an unbeatable range of affordable, fresh and wholesome food with an emphasis on organic, fair-trade and local produce. Our focus is on ingredients for tasty, interesting and really affordable cooking; produce that nourishes and isn’t laden with huge amounts of sugar, salt and additives.
The food we choose to eat not only affects our health but in many ways shapes our whole world. From our unrivalled choice of organic fruit & veg to our daily fresh bread, ever-expanding deli range, organic alcohol and store cupboard staples, we aim to cultivate stronger connections between our food, its producers, and all of us who eat it.
Paired with our values, our quality and competitive pricing have set us apart from the competition, and made us one of the UK’s largest and most successful wholefood groceries – we’re now the size of a metro-format supermarket. In 2016 we were named the UK’s ‘Best Independent Retailer’ by the Soil Association and in 2017 won ‘Best Food Retailer’ at the BBC’s Food & Farming awards.
We’re a ‘bricks and mortar’ store, i.e. we just trade in the shop itself, rather than online. As a workers’ co-operative the shop is owned by people who work in it, and we have created the kind of place we want to shop in ourselves. We hope you enjoy it too.
Organic North Wholesalers is a co-operative formed by a group of northern organic businesses in the early 1990s and remains member owned. Despite our relatively low profile, we have supplied millions of £s worth of organic vegetables to box schemes for many years. We are the longest established and largest organic fruit and vegetable wholesaler in Greater Manchester, the North West and beyond, supplying businesses in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cumbria and Scotland. We are based at the Smithfield Wholesale Market in East Manchester, a hub connected by chilled overnight transport to all the horticultural areas of the UK. Our registered name is Organic 2000 Limited but we feel that our trading name, Organic North Wholesalers, describes our business much better.
Our aims are to support regional growers wherever possible and the independent organic movement. Organic North Wholesalers has always been Soil Association registered and has close links with organic growers across the North and wider UK, supported by European and global imports when absolutely necessary. We pride ourselves on paying growers on time and try to promote seasonal surpluses.
Goodness Veg – Strensall has developed and grown into a 7 acre organic farm near York. They grow a wide range of organic vegetables, salads and herbs all year round. Offering traditional and more unusual produce to get the taste buds going! We also have a fruit orchard, soft fruits, Chickens for organic eggs and pigs for delicious organic pork! They are trying to achieve a sustainable system by combining many aspects of farming.
They sell their delicious produce through a veg box scheme, delivering in York and surrounding villages. They offer many different sizes and styles to cater for all families and preferences.
Organic Pantry, Tadcaster – welcome to the Organic Pantry, unlike many organic suppliers we are proud to be a family run organic farm based at Newton Kyme near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. The Watson family have farmed the 300 acres at St Helens for over 100 years. If you come and visit the farm you can find both Jonnie and Fanny working alongside their children to preserve the plant and wildlife for future generations.
Our organic produce has been fully certified since 1999 and is available through our Box Scheme, Farmer’s Markets and our own on-site farm shop. We also have a thriving wholesale business and can supply all our fruit and vegetables on a larger scale. We will deliver straight to your door throughout the North of England, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Northumberland. We also offer an extensive organic shop online with Organic Boxes, Organic Vegetables, Organic Fruit, Organic Meat, Wholefoods and Organic Food.
We take a lot of pride in our flexible approach and the quality of our customer service alongside providing our customers with Award-winning produce.
Nash Nursery – run an organic vegetable box scheme as well as selling our produce to the wholesale markets and through our family farm shop Wingham Country Market.
Ripple Farm Organics – is a small organic, horticultural farm of 14 acres situated in the Stour Valley at Crundale, Kent between Ashford and Canterbury. Our fields slope up towards the North Downs, giving us light, chalky soil. This free draining soil, blessed by the warmer climate of the Southeast, produces vegetables of great taste and quality. As well as our Home Farm, we also rent a Victorian Walled Garden at Olantigh near Wye and fields covering 100 acres below Wye Crown (formerley part of the Wye College Farm).
Ripple Farm has been certified Organic since 1989 and is certified organic by the Soil Association. The farm itself is essentially a market garden producing a wide range of vegetables, salad crops, herbs and some soft fruit. With this produce, Ripple Farm Organics runs an East Kent vegetable box scheme; sells at Wye and Whitstable Farmers’ Markets in Kent, and Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market in London; and supplies specialist organic/wholefood shops, Growing Communities and other box schemes and home deliveries in London as well as shops, cafes and pubs in Kent.
Malton Food Market – Every second Saturday of the Month, Malton Monthly Food Market returns with 35 specialist food stalls, street food, live chef demos, music and trips to Talbot Yard.
Popular with all those who care about where their food is sourced, the market is loved by foodie visitors, chefs & keen amateur cooks alike. Set in and around the Milton Rooms and located in Malton’s central Market Place, the market trades from 9am to 3pm. Free Parking & Entry.
Helmsley Indoor Market – on the third Friday of every month in the beautiful, temperature-controlled main hall at Helmsley Town Hall. Doors open 9 am to 2 pm. Here’s a video with me in it – on my phone!
