Market day
Honiton Farmers' Market, this Saturday, 9am to 1pm
8 miles away, and the nearest market in the next 14 days.
Hearabouts, by email soon
What’s on · Buy local · Markets · Groups & clubs
Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around Axminster.
Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.
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Market day
8 miles away, and the nearest market in the next 14 days.
In the shops
Drinks, Brewing & Distilling
At Haye Farm in East Devon, Gilt & Flint brews organic beers, ciders and soft drinks by hand…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Mark and Emma run The Vending Shed, a self-service milk vending shed outside Mole Avon in Axminster, open…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Over 50 varieties of vegetables, soft fruit and perennial herbs grow across a 3.5-acre garden at Haye Farm…
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Also here: Black Dog Eggs, Haye Farm Organics, Dorset Blue Vinny. And 19 more, by category →
Fresh Produce & Growers
Organic beef, pork, chicken, lamb and eggs, all freshly butchered and prepared to order, come from…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Trill Farm Garden grows organic vegetables, salad and herbs on 2.5 acres in Devon. Ashley Wheeler…
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Honey & Bee Products
Thomas O'Hagan makes Kilnasaggart Mead at Trill Farm in Musbury, East Devon, a fresh, clean mead…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Trill Farm brings together several independent enterprises on organically managed land in the countryside. Ash and…
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Tea, Coffee & Confectionery
From a roastery on the Devon/Dorset border, The Coffee Factory roasts specialty coffee on Dorothy, a…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Devon Ruby Red beef from steers that graze and restore flower-rich meadows at Pennyhayes Farm. The…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Marian and Phil run Pennyhayes, a small farm at Shute near Axminster that specialises in meadow…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Little Orchard Alpacas is a family-run farm near Axminster in East Devon, home to a herd…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Salad leaves, herbs and flowers, grown on a small scale at Kilmington near Axminster. Nick Stonex…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Near Axminster, Woodland View Farm raises saddleback pigs indoors on natural feed and processes all its…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
The Hebditch family has run New Cross Fruit Farm since 1948, with William and Liz the…
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Preserves, Pickles & Ferments
Otter Vale makes hand-made gluten-free chutneys and preserves in Devon, including its Devon Chutney of onion…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
A farming family from Black Dog, near Crediton in mid-Devon, Black Dog Free Range Eggs has…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Forde Abbey Fruit Farm grows strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and tayberries, a cross between a blackberry and…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Nikki and Dean have farmed Downhouse Farm since 1991, and turned to organic methods in 1995…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Woodbridge Farm at Sturminster Newton makes Dorset Blue Vinny, a hand-cut blue cheese sold in truckles…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Thorne's Farm Shop grows potatoes and seasonal fruit, with pick-your-own strawberries and raspberries daily through summer.…
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Preserves, Pickles & Ferments
Waterhouse Fayre makes handmade jams, marmalades, chutneys and pickles at Higher Elms in Burlescombe, near Tiverton…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Cabrito Goat Meat takes billy goats from the dairy industry, where males would otherwise be euthanised…
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Baking
Well Bread makes freeform sourdough loaves the traditional way, using 100% organic ingredients. The bread ferments…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Helen and Martin Arnold run Holly Farm, a 9-acre smallholding in the Blackdown Hills of East…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Tytherleigh Farm shop is a farm shop in Axminster.
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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 Axminster 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 Axminster
Nobody has listed yet for microgreens, gourmet mushrooms, ceramics, pottery & glass, jewellery & accessories, textiles, knitwear & fibre, art, prints & stationery, homewares & gifts, 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 Axminster, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.
Martial Arts
Woodbury Lane Dojo teaches traditional Shotokan karate at Woodbury Community Hall, about a mile and a half from Axminster. The not-for-profit club is affiliated to the…
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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 Axminster
Axminster 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 Axminster 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 Axminster. 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 26 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 Axminster, 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.
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