Great Haywood - Canalside Farm

Great Haywood is a village in Stafordshire, about four miles from Rugeley and close to Shugborough Hall.  Haywood Junction is an important junction on the canals, it's where the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal meets the Trent and Mersey Canal.


Canalside Farm lives up to its name:

the car park is next to the canal!  They've been growing and selling market produce here for over 25 years, and on the 1st August this year opened a brand new farm shop.

It's got a particularly good display of fresh fruit and vegetables, if you haven't got access to damsons you can buy them here to make damson jam of damson gin:

There's a butchers:

selling beef, pork and lamb:

and Packington free range chickens (as featured on the Hairy Bikers).

There's a deli counter selling Tiggy's  (a small independent baker from Stafford) pasties, pork pies, sausage rolls, quiche and Scotch eggs:   

There's a good selection of cheeses:

including Bertelin Farmhouse Cheese from Eccleshall.

There's "mix and match" olives:

The milk here come from Wells Farm Dairy in Bradley:

Apparently it's so fresh, you can hear the moo!

This being Staffordshire I was surprised that they were selling Derbyshire oatcakes:

Apparently they were having difficulty getting Staffordshire ones, but I've given them a suggestion from here!

There's bread, including this Focaccia:

from Tiggy's (and another local bakery), and also Tiggy's sultana scones:

and a range of cakes including sponges from Fatherson Bakery:

They sell fudge and chocolates from Sweet Temptations:

made in Stafordshire, and locally made chutneys and sauces from The Kitchens at Horsley, near Eccleshall. 


There's ice-cream:

from Red Lion Farm in Staffordshire and Peak District Dairy in Tideswell.


Best of all, at the back of the shop, there's some greenhouses:

Here you can pick your own strawberries:

You don't get wet, and you don't even have to bend down!  I think it took less than 5 minutes to pick these:

in September!

Canalside Farm 
Mill Lane
Great Haywood
Stafford
ST18 ORQ


Tel: 01889 881747 


Web: www.canalsidefarm.co.uk