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In the shops

Buy local in Exeter: 56 independents

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Fresh Produce & Growers

Brickhouse Garden

Brickhouse Garden is a no-dig market garden in the Mamhead hills in Devon, growing vegetables, salads, herbs and…

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Homewares & Gifts

Illumine Candle Co.

Illumine Candle Co. hand pours scented candles and wax melts in Devon, using 100% soy wax blended with…

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Flowers, Plants & Gardening

Carobeth Flowers

Carobeth Flowers grows its cut flowers in the Devon countryside near Exeter. Fresh blooms are sold from March…

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Also here: River Garden Flowers, The handpicked scallop company, Kathleen Appleyard Jewellery. And 50 more, by category →

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Sage Green Growing Co.

Sage Green Growing Co. grows organic vegetables and fruit inside the walled garden at Powderham Castle.…

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Teign Greens

Teign Greens grows vegetables on a four-acre market garden and orchard in the Teign Valley, partnering…

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Whippletree Farm

Whippletree Farm runs a small nature-friendly market garden in the Teign Valley, growing vegetables, salad, seasonal…

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Whippletree Veg

Whippletree Farm grows vegetables, salad, herbs and seasonal fruit in no-dig polytunnels and outdoor beds, with…

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Farm Shops & Local Retail

Manstree Vineyard

Boyces Nursery, Fruit Farm and Manstree Vineyard near Exeter combines a plant nursery, a fruit garden…

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Barton Lane Boxes

Barton Lane Boxes grows a wide range of organic vegetables on its farm, harvesting most of…

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Devon Orchard Ltd

Devon Orchard Ltd grows most of its ingredients on a smallholding on the outskirts of Exeter,…

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Shillingford Organics

Shillingford Organics grows organic, seasonal vegetables, salad, herbs and fruit on an agroecological farm three miles…

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Sillingford Organics

Organic vegetables, salad, herbs and eggs grown on 27 acres and 9 polytunnels at Shillingford Abbot,…

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Broomby's

Broomby's grows British flowers, cottage garden favourites and wildflowers in Exeter, and sells them as an…

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Sunnyhaye Fruit Farm

Apples grown organically at a 60-acre farm in Woodbury, East Devon: Discovery, Bramley, Grenadier, Jonagold, Cox,…

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Winkleigh Farm

Winkleigh Farm is a rare-breed farm and campsite at Woodbury Salterton in East Devon, close to…

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Health, Beauty & Wellbeing

Wild Soaps Company

Wild Soaps Company handmakes natural soaps in Exeter, Devon, in small batches using almond oil, coconut…

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Exeter Organics

Exeter Organics grows vegetables on a small farm on the edge of Exeter, using regenerative methods…

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Preserves, Pickles & Ferments

Pickle and Plot

Pickle and Plot makes small-batch kimchi and kombucha by hand, growing most of the ingredients on…

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Cheese & Dairy

Dunns Dairy

Dunn's Dairy is a family-run dairy farm on the edge of Dartmoor at Drewsteignton, Devon. Its…

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Farm Shops & Local Retail

Oinkers Farm Shop

Oinkers Farm Shop and Butchery trades from Higher Fingle Farm near Crockernwell, just outside Exeter, with…

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Fishes

Fishes has traded as a fishmonger and seafood wholesaler in St Thomas, Exeter since 1987, working…

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Drinks, Brewing & Distilling

Gray’s Devon Cider

Grays Devon Cider makes cider in Devon, a craft the business describes as perfected over four…

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Tea, Coffee & Confectionery

Boatyard Bakery

Boatyard Bakery bakes sourdough, artisan breads and handmade pastries daily on Exeter's historic quayside. Using Shipton…

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Flowers, Plants & Gardening

MOTH Florist

MOTH Florist creates seasonal, foam-free floral designs from Exeter, sourcing ingredients it grows and forages itself…

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The Grocer on the Green

The Grocer on the Green describes itself as Exeter's smallest independent greengrocer, trading from EX2 4TD.…

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Flowers, Plants & Gardening

Floren Flowers

Floren Flowers is an independent florist on Gandy Street in Exeter, making wedding and event florals,…

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Farm Shops & Local Retail

Exe Coffee Roasters

Exe Coffee Roasters roasts speciality coffee in the centre of Exeter, turning out up to half…

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Ceramics, Pottery & Glass

Terry meets Julie

Kiln-fused glass in colourful, light-reflective forms for indoors and the garden, alongside original prints. Terry Stedman…

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Pantry Goods

Ebdons Refreshments

Ebdons makes soups, salads, ready meals and dips from scratch, cooking with local seasonal ingredients and…

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Fresh Produce & Growers

Good Food Exeter

Good Food Exeter runs an online market for food produced around Exeter, drawing on producers based…

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Farm Shops & Local Retail

The Sidwell Street Bakehouse

The Sidwell Street Bakehouse bakes sourdough and other slow-fermentation breads using stoneground organic flours at 178/179…

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laurenspersonaltraining

Based in Exeter, laurenspersonaltraining runs one-to-one and group personal training sessions, with nutrition guidance and online…

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Pantry Goods

Bake Free

Bake Free runs as a one-man small-batch bakery making rich chocolate brownies, cake mixes and luxury…

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Fresh Produce & Growers

Exeter VegShare

Based on the Streatham campus of the University of Exeter, Exeter VegShare runs a veg bag…

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Three Treasures Living

Salad leaves, culinary herbs and fresh shiitake mushrooms grow here in aquaponic and organic hydroponic systems,…

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Farm Shops & Local Retail

Barton Place Farm Shop

Barton Place Farm Shop, near Exeter, sells goods from local producers and suppliers wherever it can.…

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Fresh Produce & Growers

Living Soil Garden

Living Soil Garden is a no-dig market garden on Goffin Land in North Exeter. The team…

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Tasty Bird

Tasty Bird is a third-generation family farm at Glebelands Farm, Upton Pyne, near Exeter, producing Christmas…

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Martinsfield Farm

Martinsfield Farm raises livestock and this year has begun growing field-scale vegetables on the Killerton Estate.…

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Skinner P J

Skinner P J trades as Hidden Corners from Springfield Farm at Larkbeare near Talaton, Exeter. The…

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Honey & Bee Products

Devon Valley Honey

Devon Valley Honey is a beekeeping operation run by Peter Goss at Little Dunsaller in Thorverton,…

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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood

Pale Farm Turkeys

Pale Farm Turkeys is a small, family-run business near Exeter in Devon, hand-rearing free-range and barn-reared…

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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood

Cariad’s Poultry

Cariad's Poultry sells a large variety of birds in Devon, ranging from day-old chicks to point-of-lay…

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Flowers, Plants & Gardening

The Good Flower Company

The Good Flower Company sells locally grown cut flowers and natural bouquet arrangements from Exeter. Flowers…

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Drinks, Brewing & Distilling

Rull Orchard

Rull Orchard is a small re-wilding orchard and cidery run by Mike and Claire near Exeter.…

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The money

Where your money goes

£10 → £25

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

£30mspent a year on food and drink to eat at home, across the town and its parishes
£22mof it imported from the rest of the UK and overseas
£2mmore a year stays here if we buy just a tenth of that imported food locally instead

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

  • 0% commission, at every tierYou buy direct. Money never passes through Understead.
  • Nobody pays to move up this pageNothing on this page is ordered by who pays. Adverts sit in their own marked spaces.
  • Free, for goodMarkets, clubs, groups and community organisations never pay to list.
  • Your customers stay yoursFollowers and reviews belong to the business, not to us.

Why buy from a Exeter independent?

Small choices, close to home

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.

  • It stays in the townMore of every pound goes on to pay local growers, tradespeople and Saturday jobs.
  • You know who made itThe person who grew it, baked it or threw it is usually the one selling it, and will tell you how.
  • It keeps the town a townIndependents are owned by neighbours. Their shopfronts, stalls and workshops are what make Exeter look like Exeter.
  • Work for the next lotTrades, apprenticeships and first jobs live in independent businesses.

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Why this page exists

This page belongs to Exeter

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, by category

Shops and makers

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Classes & activities

Classes & activities

Find local teachers, classes, workshops and experiences around Exeter, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.

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Health & movement

Music & performance

Art, craft & making

  • Pottery Classes
  • Art Classes
  • Sewing & Textile Crafts
  • Craft Workshops
  • Photography Courses
  • Floristry Workshops

Food, growing & outdoors

  • Cookery Classes
  • Gardening & Growing
  • Foraging & Wild Food
  • Horse Riding Lessons
  • Climbing & Bouldering
  • Paddleboarding & Kayaking
  • Sailing & Watersports

Children & families

  • Baby & Toddler Classes
  • Gymnastics Classes

Guitar Lessons

Richard Giles

Richard Giles has taught guitar in Exeter for fifteen years, taking players from complete beginners to experienced guitarists stuck in a rut. Lessons cover fingerpicked blues,…

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Pilates

Pilates with Precision

Pilates with Precision runs matwork, reformer and studio equipment classes at venues around Exeter, Exminster, Kennford and Bishopsteignton, with online sessions over Zoom. Michelle, its teacher,…

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Yoga

M.Y. Wellbeing Massage and Yoga

M.Y. Wellbeing runs small yoga classes in Exeter alongside soft tissue therapy for pain and injury. The women-owned practice teaches gentle yoga and Yoga for Living…

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Pilates

Adele's Pilates

Adele Stickland has taught Pilates in Exeter for twenty years as a level 3 instructor. Her…

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Yoga

Nikki_Yoga Vida

Nikki teaches Jivamukti and Sivananda yoga in and around Exeter, with weekly open classes and beginner…

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Pottery Classes

Ceramexe

Ceramexe is Exeter's ceramics cooperative, a non-profit community pottery run by volunteers and its members at…

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Dance Classes

Exe Salsa

Sonja and her team teach salsa across Exeter and Exmouth, drawing on seventeen years of teaching…

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Dance Classes

Ennew Dance

Ennew Dance runs adult ballet and contemporary classes on Tuesday evenings at Dansci dance studios in…

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Guitar Lessons

Mikes Guitar Lessons

Mike Bollard teaches guitar in Exeter, with structured, progressive lessons for all ages and abilities. A…

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Market day: Exeter Farmers' Market

Market day

Exeter Farmers' Market

Weekly · Thursday · 9am-2pm

Next: Thursday 5 November, 9am to 2pm

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Trade counter

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Around Exeter, and search nearby

Around Exeter

Exeter 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 Exeter 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.

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Reader questions

Reader questions

Quick answers

Independent businesses, classes and activities, groups and clubs, markets, and what’s on in and around Exeter. 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 94 independent businesses and 1 market 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 Exeter, 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.

How this page was made

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How this page was made

There’s more here than you think, and none of it was ever hidden. It just wasn’t indexed. The businesses on this page listed themselves or were found in public records; neighbours pointed to the rest. Made by Ollie and Lucy.

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Updated 11 Oct 2026. Listing counts refresh from live data.