South Hams Doorstep Deliveries
The South Hams food and drinks industry has been thriving over recent years, with farm shops and market gardens taking full advantage of our growing appetite for locally sourced artisan produce.
During these challenging times, local businesses have rallied round to keep their customers supplied, many of them now offering home delivery services. From organic veggie punnets and succulent meat boxes to fine wine crates and cream tea hampers, here are a few South Hams businesses helping to keep our larders stocked with treats and essentials.
Food Boxes and Delivery Services in South Devon
Tempting treat boxes full of devilishly delicious biscuits and cakes, perfect for tea parties and birthday bashes. Annabelle specialises in wedding and novelty cakes and can deliver free to addresses across the South Hams.
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Annie’s of Totnes
Annie’s of Ticklemore Street, Totnes, is an independent, family-run fruit and veg shop that’s been trading for more than forty years. Maintaining traditional values while moving ahead with the times has been at the heart of the shop’s success. Annie’s offers a local delivery service that covers Totnes and the surrounding villages and hamlets. Bespoke orders and seasonal boxes are both available via the shop’s website.
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Alan’s Apple
A well-known greengrocer found halfway up Kingsbridge Fore Street, Alan’s Apple is offering free deliveries within a ten mile radius. Visit the shop’s new website and fill in an order form choosing from a variety of readymade fruit and veg boxes packed with plenty of seasonal favourites. Alan’s Apple is striving to be plastic free and delivers its produce in reusable wooden crates.
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Aune Valley
Tucked away in the heart of the South Hams, between the hilltop village of Loddiswell and the bustling market town of Kingsbridge, Aune Valley continues to supply local communities with award-winning produce. This family-run business runs two shops while also keeping apace with its doorstep delivery service. A Taste of the West gold award winner, Aune Valley online shop has a butchery, delicatessen, farm shop, fruit and veg counter and pantry. Free delivery for orders more than £50 and a click and collect service is also available. Amongst the many goodies on offer is the Aune Valley Devon Cream Tea Hamper, perfect for all those planning a picnic in the beautiful South Devon countryside.
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Catch of the Day
A Taste of the West Gold Award winner, Catch of the Day is a local smoke house and fish monger with a longstanding history. Found at the top of Kingsbridge’s historic Fore Street, the shop stocks locally caught fish, prawns, crab and lobsters and also runs a postal order and gift box service, such is its popularity. Catch of the Day have been running daily deliveries around Kingsbridge, Salcombe and the surrounding villages, free of charge for orders more than £15. Give then a ring to place your order.
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Challon’s Combe Organics
The lush, green meadows of Aveton Gifford parish is the setting for Challon’s Combe. Following their ‘natural is best’ ethos, this family-run dairy farm has been producing organic milk, yoghurt and cream for the past twenty years and supplies a long list of local retailers. The delivery van has been doing the rounds in Kingsbridge, Salcombe, Aveton Gifford, Kingston, Bigbury and Ringmore, and continues to receive glowing reviews.
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Cormacks Seafood
This Totnes-based fishmongers specialises in sustainable seafood, all caught on small boats using selective fishing methods from local waters around Devon and Cornwall. Their online shop features beautiful fish and seafood boxes covering everything from fresh lobster, ready to cook fillets and crumbed fish and to ready meals, and can be delivered nationwide.
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Cranch’s Pantry
This well-stocked green grocers and general stores has been busy delivering its fayre to doorsteps both in and around its hometown of Salcombe. It can also include orders from Cranch’s world-famous sweet shop for anyone in need of some sugary treats. Cranch’s is Devon’s oldest sweet shop, masters of confectionary for more than one hundred and fifty years! Give them a call to arrange an order.
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Dartmouth Dairy
Working through the night, whatever the weather, the team at Dartmouth Dairy deliver fresh dairy and groceries all around the South Hams. Wake up to find all your weekly essentials on your doorstep, anything from fresh, glass-bottled milk and free-range eggs to BBQ boxes and sweet treats. This family-run company sources much of its produce from local farms, delicatessens, and growers, keeping fridges and larders stocked up with extras and essentials. Meat packs and bespoke salad and vegetable boxes are also available.
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How Now Dairy
How Now Diary runs a small herd of organic pedigree Ayrshires that graze on the ranging pastures of South Dartmoor. The dairy makes afternoon deliveries along a number of routes around the South Hams throughout the week. People love the flavour and goodness of this delicious and sustainable milk. How Now even allows you to return its green packaging for composting!
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Jolly Farm
Jolly Farm lies in the meadows and lowlands of Halwell, near the attractive market town of Totnes. This small, family-run farmstead has a growing flock of Lleyn ewes and also rears and grazes cattle, and pigs on fields in Dartmoor, Slapton and Dartington. Jolly Farm is supported by the community, which means people are encouraged to get hands on with the growing of their lamb, pork and beef and be part of the nurturing process. The farm offers free local delivery, fresh when in season and frozen during winter.
Michael Sutton’s Cellar
A short stroll from the crystal clear waters of Blackpool Sands and only a couple of miles from the flamboyant maritime town of Dartmouth, Michael Sutton’s Cellar can supply exceptional wines from all over the world. The perfect addition to your family bash, birthday banquet or barbeque, this illustrious wine merchants can offer free local deliveries. All you have to do is shop via its ample online cellar and either telephone or email through your order. Chin-chin!
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Riverford Organic Farmers
With more than thirty years’ worth of experience behind it, Riverford remains committed to supplying its customers with quality fruit and vegetables that are 100% organic. Describing themselves as “proper farmers with mud on their boots”, Riverford can deliver bespoke and seasonal produce, plus a choice of prime cuts, bread, eggs and milk. Riverford farmers work in harmony with the soil and the local wildlife, all part of its sustainable ethos. The heart of the enterprise lies in Wash Farm, South Devon.
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Salcombe Brewery
Now offering its brand new doorstep delivery service, Salcombe Brewery can boast a state-of-the-art brewery overlooking the scenic wends of the Kingsbridge & Salcombe Estuary. Its eight fermenting vessels can produce 340 casks and 120 kegs in one week, enough to keep pace with its many customers and punters. Check out its range of handcrafted beer and cider and stock up for you holiday.
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Salcombe Cream Tea Co.
If you find yourselves craving a traditional Devonshire cream tea on a balmy summer’s day, why not have a hamper delivered direct to your front door courtesy of the Salcombe Cream Tea Company. Inside, you’ll find home baked scones, homemade raspberry jam, lashings of Devonshire clotted cream and English breakfast tea. A great idea for picnics or garden soirees.
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Salcombe Distilling Co.
Having emerged as one of the most successful brands in the region, Salcombe Gin has become a household favourite. The company’s distillery, on Salcombe’s Island Street, is where all the magic happens, producing some award-winning flavours inspired by the town’s rich maritime history. It now also distils its very own lovingly crafted rum. Home orders can be made via its online shop.
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Samphire Foods
Samphire Foods of Kingsbridge offers a smorgasbord of fresh cuisine including pastas, salads, sauces, cheeses, teas, coffees, wines, tapas and ready meals. This Fore Street outlet has been busy delivering its varied selection of gastronomic delights to doorsteps all around the sunny South Hams. Orders can be placed online via its website. Free delivery for orders more than £30 (not including wine).
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Spindlebrook Farm
Set amid the lush, green acres that surround the picturesque town of Modbury, Spindlebrook Farm can deliver fresh and delicious veg boxes to your door. Grown in the farm’s market gardens, the boxes come in three sizes, small (suitable for 1-2 people) up to large (adequate for 3-4 people). All the farm’s produce has been grown by hand using ecologically sensitive methods, the result of which are beautiful and buxom veggies that pack a wonderful taste.
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Stokeley Farm Shop
The pretty South Hams parish of Stokenham provides the idyllic setting for Stokeley Farm Shop. Stokeley now runs a home delivery service for anyone struggling to shop over the counter, covering the entire South Hams district for only a small additional charge. All you have to do is telephone or email your order and choose from its wide selection of everyday groceries and produce on sale at its deli, butchery and brewery. The finest local produce – including the famous Stokeley strawberries – delivered fresh to your door.
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The Salcombe Meat Company
Based at Ashby’s Farm Shop and Garden Centre, near the seaside town of Salcombe, The Salcombe Meat Company offers its customers only the “very best” in quality produce, the hallmarks of which are local, sustainable, slow-grown and grass-fed. The company offers free delivery for meat orders of £20 and above, which could include its popular ‘Staple Diet Box’ made up of mince Dexter beef, free range sausages, home cured bacon or burgers, diced braising beef and diced chicken. Orders can be made via telephone or Facebook.
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Wilton Farm
Tucked away in the rolling pastures of South Pool, Wilton Farm is now delivering fresh fruit and vegetable boxes crammed with seasonal goodies. With three different selection boxes available, from single up to family-sized, Wilton Farm can also supply freshly baked bread (from its artisan bakers in nearby Kingsbridge), plus free-range eggs and milk from the udders off local herds.