'farm shop' bargains how do they do this ?

storminabuttercup

Near us we have a 'farm shop' its not your usual type - they sell fruit and veg and then lots of tins/packets etc (many out of date which i avoid)

so today i went and got a sack of king edwards at £1.90 - 20kg

and a big bag of what i think are chatenay carrots - charged at 50p - im rubbish at weights but i reckon theres about 3lb in there.

Does anyone know how they can sell these so cheap ?

OwtForNowt

Possibly because they wont have much in the way of transport costs ect. If they grow them there it wont cost much (just the cost of growing them and the cost of the small farm shop) so can probably pass on the savings.

storminabuttercup

its not really that type of farm shop - its hard to explain - but im pretty certain they dont grow the stuff ......

sinw

probs more than they wud get from the poopermarket ne way..............

katylou6180

wow, I wish I lived nearer to you, our nearest farm shop wanted £3.90 for 1 head (100gish) of purple sprouting broccoli!!!!(when 1lb from market is £1.50) and £5.00 for plants that were on sale in morrisons for £1.79!!!!

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

katylou6180 wrote: »

wow, I wish I lived nearer to you, our nearest farm shop wanted £3.90 for 1 head (100gish) of purple sprouting broccoli!!!!(when 1lb from market is £1.50) and £5.00 for plants that were on sale in morrisons for £1.79!!!!

Sounds like some of the farm shops around our way - some of ours don't even have local or even British veg at times, there's often stuff imported from Holland...if I want imported veg I'll go to a supermarket, in a farm shop I kind of expect to see local if not at least British produce on offer!