Grown here, or just down the road.

Vegetables from our own fields, meat and dairy from farms we can see from the gate, and a cafe that cooks with all of it.

Our story

Three generations on one farm

Hartwell is a mixed farm on the edge of the Chilterns. Ruth Hartwell’s parents sold eggs from a table at the gate in 1987.

The table became a barn, and the barn became the shop. Ruth and her son Ben run it now, with a team of twelve.

We still farm. The vegetables, lamb, eggs and honey in the shop come from these fields.

If we would not put it on our own table, it does not go on the shelf.

Ruth Hartwell

Come for a pint of milk. Stay for lunch.

Open daily
The shop

Vegetables, meat, dairy, bread and the store cupboard, most of it from within 20 miles.
Breakfast and lunch
The cafe

Breakfast, lunch and cake, cooked from what is in the shop that morning.
Free
The farm walk

A mile round the paddocks to meet the goats, sheep and ducks. Free, and dogs on leads are welcome.

We keep the chain short, so you know where everything came from.

Step 1: Grown or raised here

Vegetables, lamb, eggs and honey come from our own fields, pond and hives.
Step 2: Bought from neighbours

What we do not grow, we buy from 34 producers within 20 miles. We visit every one.
Step 3: On the shelf the same day

Most produce is picked in the morning and on the shelf by lunchtime. Each label says where it came from.

On the farm
Honey from the orchard hives

Eight hives at the top of the orchard. The first jars of the year sell out in a week.
On the farm
Duck eggs from the pond

Laid by the ducks on the farm pond. Larger than hen eggs, and very good in cake.