Our 9 Farm Shop Values

This week we want to have a deep dive into what we stock (and don’t stock!) in our shop and why we do so.

We have created a shop where you don’t need to check labels. We’ve done the work for you so you don’t have to.

Every product we stock is carefully chosen to be nourishing to the body and respectful to the land.

Here are things you will find (and definitely won’t find) in our shop, and why.

1. No seed oils

You will never find anything that contains seed oils. Seeds oils like sunflower, soybean or rapeseed oil are a modern invention, they are highly processed and contain a lot of omega-6 fatty acids which is known to cause inflammation in the body amongst many other negative effects. They are also unstable when heated and often oxidised before they even get bottled.

Our ancestors never cooked with seed oils, yet today it’s almost impossible to avoid them.

We don’t stock anything in our shop that has seed oils. Instead, we opt for traditional fats and olive oil, like the crisps we sell, which are either made with tallow or extra virgin olive oil. Our pastries are baked with pure butter and our bakery uses real olive oil to line the tins for our tin sourdoughs.

You can pick up a jar of pesto or a bag of crisps without even needing to check the labels.

2. Always grass fed

All our meat is pasture (or woodland) raised. Our cows and sheep are 100% grass-fed and finished, they are never fed grain meaning our meat is higher in minerals, omega-3s and fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A and E. Our animals are raised following a rotational grazing method which builds the soil and the land’s biodiversity whilst sequestering carbon.

And it’s not just our meat, all the animal products we sell in the farm shop are grass-fed, from butter to ghee, yogurt and tallow.

3. No pesticides

We only stock produce grown without pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilisers. Whether it’s “beyond organic,” regenerative, or certified organic, you’ll never find glyphosate or other poisonous chemicals here. Research links them to hormone disruption, gut dysbiosis, neurological issues, and even certain cancers. Glyphosate, in particular, is a known chelator — it binds minerals in the soil and your body, making it harder to absorb essential nutrients.

We don’t believe in conventional farming, whether that’s for the way we farm or the products we stock in our shop.

4. No artificial anything!

If your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise it as food, we don’t sell it. That means no emulsifiers, stabilisers, synthetic preservatives, or lab-derived additives like E-numbers or high-fructose corn syrup. Nothing adulterated or overly processed.

Nothing you couldn’t make yourself in your own kitchen. We live in a world where most supermarket products have ingredients we can barely pronounce and would never be able to make them in our own kitchen. This not only disconnects us even further from our food but also has a terrible impact on our bodies. Additives and preservatives can disrupt digestion, irritate the gut lining, and contribute to long-term metabolic and neurological issues. Our philosophy is simple: only ingredients your bodies can recognise.

For example, our sausages are just pork, organic oats and herbs, sea salt and natural casing. Nothing else!

5. Always in season

You will never find tomatoes in December or strawberries in February at My Little Farm shop. There is a reason crops grow at specific times of the year. Our bodies are designed to thrive on the foods that grow around us, when they grow naturally. Winter squashes are grounding and starchy, perfect for cold months. Spring greens are cleansing. Tomatoes contain lycopene which protects our skin from peak summer sun. Seasonal eating also supports immunity, digestion, and hormonal balance — and avoids the environmental cost of growing and importing out-of-season produce.

We want to go back to eating like we use to do a hundred years ago, in rhythm with the land and the seasons.

6. Deeply nourishing

We believe food is our best medicine. When chosen correctly it’s the best way to support our bodies to live in an optimal state. We live by this as a family in our day to day life and have made it a main value for our farm shop - to stock foods that are deeply nourishing and supportive to the body.

From unadulterated raw dairy to fermented foods, healthy animal fats, herbal teas, raw honey, freshly harvested vegetables, bone broth and grass-fed meat, we want everything in our farm shop to deeply nourish our community. Our focus is always on bioavailable nourishment — food your body knows how to use.

7. Heritage & primitive

Modern agriculture has prioritised yield, shelf life, and uniformity — at the cost of nutrition. We choose the opposite: ancient varieties of heritage / heirloom seeds for our vegetables and fruits, primitive heritage breeds for our animals and heritage grains.

From einkorn and spelt pasta to heritage pork and beef, we honour the foods that fed our ancestors for millennia. These varieties are richer in minerals, easier to digest, and far more diverse than the monocultures dominating supermarkets today.

Heritage foods are a way to reclaim nutritional integrity. We believe in eating the way our ancestors did, before food got messed up with.

8. Plastic free whenever possible

We are very strict about having as many products as we can in glass over plastic, especially for acidic foods like tomatoes, yogurt, or ferments. That’s because acidity leaches plastic molecules (like BPA and phthalates present in plastic pots and lined metal tins) from the container into the food, and those compounds can act as endocrine disruptors.

Even if that means more difficult logistics with getting the products into the shop, we really believe our health is worth it.

9. Nose to tail and ancestral

Eating from the land means eating the whole animal. There’s no other way, no one would’ve discarded the nutritious organs from their animals to eat the lean meat only. This doesn’t only show respect for the animal but it’s also a deeply nourishing way of eating. Organs like liver, heart, and kidney are nature’s multivitamins — rich in B12, iron, folate, and fat-soluble vitamins.

We stock a whole range or cuts of meat, collagenous and organ meats. But for those who aren’t there yet, we also stock regenerative grass fed liver, organ and marrow capsules which are simple dehydrated organs grounded and put into a gelatine capsule.

When you shop with us, you’re not just buying food — you’re joining a movement. One that honours the land, the body, and the wisdom of generations past.