About Ardross Farm
We have come along way since our shop started in 2005. Faced with rising fuel costs and under huge pressure from supermarkets four years ago we made the hard decision to diversify and find a different way to make a living out of agriculture. Having found a local abattoir and butcher to hang our beef we decided to try and sell our meat directly to the public.
All of the family were drafted in to strip wood and paint the walls of a beautiful cart shed we had on the farm and a couple of weeks later we had the start of Ardross Farm Shop. With one chest freezer, a calculator and a lot of enthusiasm we then delivered leaflets to every home in the East Neuk hoping that some people would be interested in what we were doing.
The response was amazing! Local food was just coming into it’s own at that point and our traditionally reared beef seemed to be just what people were looking for. We also grew a small amount of veg on the farm so we decided to put freshly picked season vegetables in the shop. It wasn’t long before people were asking for more.
Being ignorant of the retail industry has helped us a great deal. Having never dealt with the public before, we relied solely on what we thought of products and on customer’s recommendations. As a result everything in our shop has been tried and tasted by ourselves or our customers creating stock of which we are very proud.
We want to promote British agriculture and so ninety percent of the produce in the shop is produced by farming families diversifying with other products produced by small artisan companies. All of our produce is produced in Britain.
The shop, although nothing like it was when we first started is still family run and you will always find one of the family close at hand. However we are very lucky to have a fantastic group of staff who we would never manage without.
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- Atkins and Potts Tasting
24 August 2010
Atkins and Potts Tasting, Sunday 29th August, 11am-3.30pm.........
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17 August 2010
For three generations, potatoes have been a passion at Tyrrells Court Farm.........
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07 August 2010
Keny Drew has been working commercially in Scotland since graduating.........
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05 July 2010
Summer in the Loft, a unique opportunity to view.........
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10 June 2010
Low GI Multiple Seed loaf and Cornflour with sunflower seeds and corn.........
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