On the 4th Sunday of every month the Lark Lane Farmers Market takes place. It is set up at the…read moreAigburth Road end of Lark Lane and curves round onto the paved area of Aigburth Road. There is always an excellent mix of stall here selling produce such as sweets, plants, coffee, cheeses, specialist sausages, specialist meats, beers, smoothies, cakes, black & white pudding and much much more. Many of the stalls have free samples to try and the smell that emits from the market is delicious. The produce on sale is often more expensive than you would find in supermarkets but this is to be expected. The produce is of an excellent quality and you wont find many of the specialist items in supermarkets at all. This is a great addition to the Lark Lane community.

The bohemian chic of Lark Lane, which is littered with bars, eateries and quirky stores selling…read moreretro interior accessories. Drinkers mill about with students - presuming there's a difference between the two - and "dedicated followers of fashion". What a perfect place for a farmers market. This market, held on the last Saturday of every month, is bigger than its counterpart in Woolton Village, although it does suffer slightly in comparison as half of it is on the edge of busy Aigburth road. A great plant stall selling lovely and unusual bushes at very decent prices greets those who enter the market from Lark Lane. The kind of stall Woolton is missing out on. There's myriad cake and bakery stalls selling pasties, pies, pastries and bread and the ever present Savin Hill Farm meat stall, which sells sausages presumably butchered in Heaven. Last time I went, today (28 August), there was a fantastic flower stall with some of the sunniest sunflower bouquets I've ever seen for a mere £3. A very good place to visit every now and again, but it rarely changes, which is a shame.

Great farm shop selling seasonal fruit and vegetables and there as fresh as you can get! There…read morecurrently doing strawberry picking so get yourself down there and grab a punnet, it's around £5 pound a punnet which seems expensive but once weighed you do get a lot for your money and the luxury of picking them yourself. They also sell those little luxuries you don't see in a supermarket (cartmel sticky toffee pudding) and lots more. Kenyon Hall farm also has a beautiful garden centre, cafe indoor & outdoor as well as an outdoor park for children. Nice place to visit for an afternoon.

We went strawberry picking one fine saturday to Kenyon Hall Farm. The farm is not too far from J22…read moreof the M6 and has a decent sized car park. The only way into the picking area is through the farm shop and cafe. You queue up, choose a picking basket and follow the teddy bear to get to the strawberry fields. Spend as much time as you like, pick as many strawberries as your basket can hold and then return to the farm shop and pay for the day's haul. The farm shop also sells locally sourced meats, sausages, vegetables, preserves, jams etc. They also have a cafe selling hot and cold food and drinks, which are reasonably priced. In addition to picking your own, you also have the option to buy potted plants and bring them home. I think we got some basil, mint and chilli. I thoroughly enjoyed the strawberry picking experience, which was enhanced by a sunny day. I would definitely recommend this place, especially if you have little kids that need to be entertained on a fine summer's day.

If you want to buy good quality organic meat direct from the farmer, look no further! The family…read morebehind this place actually run two farms -- one near Haigh Hall in Wigan, and this place just off the East Lancs road (the A580) in St Helens. The quality of the meat they provide cannot be understated -- it's fantastic. And as I say, you can cut out the middle-man and buy directly from them -- simply check out the website, ring the farmer, and arrange to pick up what you need whenever is mutually convenient. At a time when many of us are becoming increasingly concerned about food miles and the provenance of what we eat, I cannot recommend these good people heartily enough.

Great out of the way breakfast, lunch location, although it can be very popular at times and might…read morerequire a wait to be seated according to my sister. At the time I visited early November 2021, some road work was taking place around the area, so consult your GPS App of choice to make sure you don't have to backtrack along the roads to get to it. The food was fresh as you would expect from a farm to table. Staff are very friendly and helpful, place was very clean and the food as said before was very fresh and well cooked.

Yew Tree Farm Shop is in the countryside. I live in the city. Therefore, I have no idea how I ended…read moreup there. Perhaps I was escaping from a murderous hitchhiker. Selling produce picked, harvested or slaughtered as close to the grounds as possible, this charming little farmyard is the kind of place you expect to see a jolly children's TV presenter leaping out from behind a tractor to tell you some fun facts about ducks. The shop was alarmingly not as pricey as I anticipated. A lot of the produce cost the same as it would in the dirty city, only it hadn't been mercilessly processed by unemotional machines and tasted deliciously fresh, as opposed to artificial. It's just a shame I live six miles away. There's a Tesco by my house and everything.

This is a great shop to visit if you are counting your pennys. What I like best about it is that…read morethey stock well known brands and not brands which youve never heard of before. Being a veggie I like to visit farmfoods to buy cheap veggie foods. Farmfood always have quorn on special offer, their prices are unbeatable as they only cost about a pound or 2 boxes for £3 - the same products would set me back a lot more in Tesco! The staff always seem to be rushed off their feet as its so busy and popular so they dont have the time to be friendly with you. More of a case of serve you as fast as possible then usher you out of the store!

Ok, there is a trade off with this place. Yes, they do have loads of good offers and…read morediscounts/special deals but when you get to the counter they are so blase about packing away food it is unbelieveable. I have stopped going here for more than one or two things because whenever I have done a big shop at this place in the past they have literally thrown my food into carrier bags. I stood there in disbelief. Let me say that again, they threw my food into bags - not giving a second thought as to whether frozen stuff was going with open food etc. I thought that was horrible and at the time said I am never going back there. The store is like a one way system the way it is laid out. It is difficult with a large trolley or even a pram to turn around in the aisles becasue they are so narrow and tight. Having said all this, just let me reiterate that the store does have a lot of good quality cheap food. So if you dont mind your food being crushed by overly busy staff who dont have the time to care, then this is the place for you.

Undoubtedly the best farm shop in Widnes, nay, Cheshire and not just cause I used to work there for…read moreabout 5 years! Dennis and Rena, and their son Johnny have been running this place for about 20 years or something, and I think everybody in the surrounding area knows about it. I spent many a happy afternoon bagging potatoes, riding motorcross bikes, feeding the pig bananas, learning to ride horses, and generally having a good time. In fact, thus far, it's probably been my best ever job. Anyway, come here for all your fruit and veg at rock bottom prices, way cheaper than the supermarkets, and better quality. With a smile. Unless you park in the wrong place !

This must be under new ownership. Went there today to find they were closing at 4:30 and was told…read moreto F*** off I am sure they used to be open until 5 Their loss Grumpy Bloke just moaned about being up at 3am . If they want customers they need to open at times convenient to other than the pensioners who gather there for a gossip and hold up customers on limited lunch hours certainly won't be bothering again after my treatment today. I see their good reviews are written by their own staff what does that tell you

This farm is such a good day out for kids, families or I'm my case...the girlfriend…read more They have strawberries and raspberries this time of the year but also apricots later in the winter. You pull into the car park and go into the shop to pick up an empty tray. The strawberries are located on the other side of the field so a drive or longish walk is necessary to reach them. Then you just pick to your heart's content. We ended up filling 2 deep trays with ripe juicy strawberry and raspberry. Since Asda and Tesco like to rip me off I was expecting to pay a high price.......£3.50. I was that made up I ended up just giving them a fiver because it was such a nice run family business. I will be going back again when the weather improves.

What a glorious location for a fantabulous farmers market. And this market has it all, from the…read morecoffee stall to the veg stall to the flower stall to the meat stall and beyond. There's something for everyone on the second Saturday of every month in this village, which, I'm told, dates back to the Doomsday Book. There's a stall selling great meat, for sure. But better than that there's someone with a griddle cooking sumptuous and sizeable lamb sausages and burgers from the same stall. Cooking them perfectly, and putting them with onions, relish or blue cheese sauce if you so desire. Not a fan, then try the hog roast. If you can get past the full pig on a stick, it's delectable, especially with apple sauce. For vegetarians there's a smaller savoury selection, olives, but a great choice of desserts from the Pudding Compartment to the few bakery stalls. The Woolton in Bloom stall raises money for those wonderful ladies who make this archetypal village look so good, hanging baskets and flowers adorning almost every wall and lamppost. If there is a problem with the market it's that it rarely changes. On the odd occasion the crepe man turns up, though, it's a real treat.