Just off the A12 between Ipswich and Colchester sits Hall Farm – an excellent place to combine a good lunch and purchase superb local produce from the farm shop.

Hall Farm is a working mixed farm that has been the home of, and run by, the Barrie family for over three generations since 1929 – situates on the Suffolk and Essex border with the river Stour running through the farms fields.

The farm shop was opened in 2001 to retail their prize winning beef and lamb direct to the public – as well as the livestock, the farm currently plants, grows and harvests 6 acres of potatoes, all of which are retailed through the shop.

Starting in the end of a stable block the shop has now expanded through the whole of the barn – offering a deli counters and a large range of vegetables, fruit and eggs.

Following on from the popularity of the shop – Hall Farm Café Restaurant was opened in 2006, situated in a converted 16th Century cattle byer – the chefs pride themselves on sourcing and using as much local and seasonal produce as possible with Hall Farm beef, lamb and potatoes regularly on the menu – they home-make and bake everything, and offer a breakfast and lunch menu, daily specials and fabulous cakes to accompany morning coffee or afternoon tea.

Hall Farm opened their own Butchers in April 2010 – and Hall Farm now offers their own Hall Farm beef and lamb, fully traceable from birth to the butchers counter.