Fresh Produce & Growers
Trenderway Farm
Trenderway Farm sits in a quiet valley between Polperro and Looe in South East Cornwall, where heritage apple…
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Hearabouts, by email soon
What’s on · Buy local · Markets · Groups & clubs
Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around Looe.
Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.
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In the shops
Fresh Produce & Growers
Trenderway Farm sits in a quiet valley between Polperro and Looe in South East Cornwall, where heritage apple…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Quayside Fresh is a farm shop and post office on the historic quay in Looe, Cornwall, open seven…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Nippers Shellfish, part of Pengelly's of Looe, has traded in fresh Cornish fish since 1946. Its fishmongers prepare…
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Also here: Purley Cornish Farm Shop, Cornish Gouda Co., Home Farm Cornwall. And 1 more, by category →
Farm Shops & Local Retail
Purely Cornish Farm Shop and Deli sits at 18 Fore Street in East Looe, gathering the…
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Cheese & Dairy
Cornish Gouda Co. hand-crafts Gouda-style cheese at Talvan Farm near Looe, using milk from its own…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
On two south-facing fields at Morval near Looe, Andy and Wendy grow their own chutney vegetables…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Cornish Turkey has reared free range bronze turkeys and geese near Looe for more than 40…
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The money
What a tenner spent with a local independent can be worth to the town before it leaves. Totnes has measured what that means in practice: somebody counted the shopkeepers, growers and makers, and worked out what the town keeps.
Totnes figures
Source: Economic Blueprint for Totnes & District, local food & drink section (2013). Choosing local isn’t charity. It’s one of the ways we decide what our towns get to keep.
What we stand for
Why buy from a Looe independent?
When the bread, the veg or the birthday present comes from someone who lives here, the money goes round the town again before it leaves.
Shop local · Eat local · Join in
Why this page exists
A place is made by its local people and the independent businesses, groups, clubs, markets, activities and networks they create. Yet much of this local life is hard to find, scattered across word of mouth, social media, small websites, noticeboards and people’s memories.
Understead exists to make what’s local easier to see, easier to find and easier to take part in. What you see is the understead: the smaller, independent and community life of your town that can otherwise be remarkably easy to miss.
Every time you buy locally, join a group, recommend a place or share this page, you’re taking part in local life, and you make it easier for the next person to find.
Further down this page
Shops and makers
Wanted in Looe
Nobody has listed yet for microgreens, gourmet mushrooms, baking, tea, coffee & confectionery, honey & bee products, herbs & botanicals, ceramics, pottery & glass, jewellery & accessories, wood, metal & fine craft, textiles, knitwear & fibre, art, prints & stationery, candles, soap & home fragrance, homewares & gifts, flowers, plants & gardening, health, beauty & wellbeing, zero waste & eco household and pet products. That doesn’t mean nobody’s doing it. It means they’re not on here.
Know one? Add them →
Find local teachers, classes, workshops and experiences around Looe, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.
Dance Classes
CORE Dance Company is a dance school in Looe.
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Know someone we should include?
Recommend one →Know them? Invite them →Teach one yourself? Add it free →Already here? Claim your listing →
Market day
We haven’t found the local markets here yet. Know a market or food hub people around here should be able to find?
Recommend a market → Invite the organiser → List your market free →
Markets and food hubs list on Understead free, forever.
Trade counter
Tell us what you need. Producers within range reply straight to you by email: no browsing, no middleman, no fee.
When more suppliers match than one request can go to, those on paid plans are sent it first.
Around Looe
Looe is your starting point, not your boundary.
Local doesn't stop at the town sign. The growers, makers, markets and clubs in the villages and towns around Looe are part of the same local life. Open a neighbouring town's page to see who's there, or put in your postcode, choose how far you're happy to travel, and search everything local within that distance: shops and producers, classes, what's on, groups and markets.
Neighbouring town pages
Search vendors by category, postcode and radius.
Reader questions
Independent businesses, classes and activities, groups and clubs, markets, and what’s on in and around Looe. Understead brings together the local things that are otherwise scattered across websites, social media and word of mouth, so they’re easier to find and discover. There are 8 independent businesses and 0 markets listed here so far, alongside local groups and organiser-published dates.
Local life doesn’t stop at the town boundary. Understead follows the useful local catchment around Looe, so relevant places in nearby towns and villages can appear here too. Each result tells you where it is, and the Nearby search lets you enter your own postcode and decide how far you want to look.
Use Add something local to tell us about a business, class, group, market or event we’re missing. If you run it yourself, use the appropriate listing or organiser route there. If it’s already on Understead, use its claim or update option where available.
Businesses can show their own website, phone, social channels, enquiry and booking links. Understead doesn’t get between you and the business. Where a business has opened a Shop here, you can also buy through Understead.
Eligible businesses can list free. Understead charges no listing fees and takes 0% sales commission on Shop sales. Shop and Trade subscriptions are optional and pay for extra tools, not a cut of each sale. Normal payment-processing fees may still apply when an online payment is taken.
Not on this page: nothing here is ordered by who pays, and adverts sit in their own marked spaces. Paying never puts a business into results it doesn’t belong in. In search, where several businesses match equally well, one on a paid plan can be listed above a free one.