Lifton Farm Shop is quickly gaining a reputation as the weekly food shopping venue for Launceston - quality, freshness and flavour 7/52!
"I would prefer to shop at the Launceston Farmers Market, but it's only on one day a week - I can't get there!"
Well, you can now, because the Lifton Farm Shop is open 7 days a week all year round, perfectly located for Launceston and the surrounding areas, with a fantastic selection of seasonal own farm produce and meats, along with other local foods, in a well laid out award winning* Farm Shop environment, with free parking too.
Lifton Farm Shop is just a 1/2 mile off the A30 at Lifton, near Launceston, and opened in 2002 to enable the Mounce family to market their own farm produce, and that of other local producers, direct to local people - so if you live in or around Launceston, Lifton Farm Shop is ideal for your weekly food shop, with the massively reduced food miles, choice and quality that no other Launceston food outlet can provide.
Lifton Farm Shop
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Bakery - In the centre of the shop, open plan, producing breads, cakes,buns, pasties and all manner of good things,accompanied by a delicious aroma!
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Butchery - Well hung beef, pork, lamb, chicken, duck, burgers, sausages and turkey and geese for Christmas
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Fruit & Vegetables - Wonderfully flavoursome seasonal produce including strawberries, apples, plums and pears, and of course everything on display has been grown for flavour - flavour being the ingredient that has been bred out of so many food products in favour of colour and uniformity, which is just plain wrong!
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And of course - Freshly laid free range eggs, pickles, chutneys, jams, cheeses - and ice cream, made on the premises weekly
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Restaurant - The licensed restaurant, attached to the Farm Shop, features a kitchen in full view, with all the ingredients used coming from the farm shop. Breakfasts, lunches, coffee and cakes, fantastic desserts, afternoon teas, traditional Sunday roasts, OAP days on Wednesdays, an ideal place to relax in or meet friends
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PYO strawberries - (PYO = Pick Your Own) Could these be the best strawberries in the Southwest? Well why not bring the family for a days PYO to find out, kids love it - but watch out for the scarecrows that guard the PYO strawberries!
It is no exaggeration to say you could spend the entire day at Lifton Farm Shop and still find something to do, particularly as Lifton Farm Shop have a very busy events diary through the year - take a look at the website for more information.
Launceston Events & Function Venue
Additionally, the licensed restaurant is available as a venue for hire for special events and functions, such as birthday parties, childrens parties, anniversary parties, corporate functions, company and clubs and associations Christmas dinners, you think of the event - Lifton Farm Shop Restaurant makes the ideal venue, with full venue catering facilities.
Call into the Lifton Farm Shop today, open 7 days a week throughout the year, near Launceston, the most interesting, tasty and freshest produce - and it's all local for local people!
*FARMA Own & Local Farm Retailer 2008 - Winner.
"There is a real energy around Lifton, that goes through the business from the top down, they love what they do, and they do it well....Great displays, knowledgeable staff, hard work and a bit of passion, these are all the ingredients for an award winning farm shop."
James Dart, Judge, Own & Local Farm Retailer 2008 Award.
(Lifton Farm Shop also attends the Launceston Farmers Market, held on Fridays 9.30am-2pm at the Town Hall, Launceston, and the Tavistock Farmers Market, held on the 2nd & 4th Saturday of every month 9-1 in Bedford Square, Tavistock).