Tea, Coffee & Confectionery
Surfing Cow Ice Cream
Surfing Cow makes gelato on a South Devon coast farm using fresh whole milk from its own Jersey-cross…
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What’s on · Buy local · Markets · Groups & clubs
Plymouth
Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around Plymouth.
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Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.
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In the shops
Buy local in Plymouth: 7 independents
All 7, by category →Farm Shops & Local Retail
Langage Farm via Longmans
Langage Farm milks its own Jersey and Guernsey herd across 280 acres of Devon countryside and turns the…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Shellfish South West
Hand-picked white crab meat, crab pâté, smoked mackerel pâté, fish cakes, Thai crab cakes and an award-winning crab…
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Also here: Langage Farm, Heath Farm Christmas Turkeys, Porsham Farm. And 1 more, by category →
Explore all 7 local businesses
Farm Shops & Local Retail
Langage Farm
Langage Farm milks a herd of over 250 Jersey and Guernsey cows to make cream, ice…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
Heath Farm Christmas Turkeys
Heath Farm Christmas Turkeys is a small family farm near Plymouth that sells fresh, oven-ready free-range…
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Tea, Coffee & Confectionery
Porsham Farm
Porsham Cakes bakes luxury celebration cakes and chocolate brownies on a family farm five minutes from…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Luke's Fruit Farm
Luke's Fruit Farm grows fruit and vegetables on a small family-run holding, working as naturally as…
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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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth look like Plymouth.
- 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 Plymouth
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
Buy local, by category
Food & Drink
Makers & Crafts
- Nothing listed yet
Home, Garden & More
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- Ceramics, Pottery & Glass
- Jewellery & Accessories
- Wood, Metal & Fine Craft
- Textiles, Knitwear & Fibre
- Art, Prints & Stationery
- Candles, Soap & Home Fragrance
- Homewares & Gifts
Home, Garden & More
- Flowers, Plants & Gardening
- Health, Beauty & Wellbeing
- Farm Shops & Local Retail
- Zero Waste & Eco Household
- Pet Products
Classes & activities
Classes & activities
Teachers, classes and workshops around Plymouth. We haven’t found any listed here yet.
Recommend one → Know them? Invite them → Teach one yourself? Add it free → Already here? Claim your listing →
Markets
Market day
Markets
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
Trade counter
Buying for a shop, kitchen or gallery?
Tell us what you need. Producers within range reply straight to you by email: no browsing, no middleman, no fee.
- 1Say what you need.
- 2Say where you need it.
- 3Choose how far you’ll source from.
- 4Let one supplier or several fulfil it.
When more suppliers match than one request can go to, those on paid plans are sent it first.
Around Plymouth, and search nearby
Around Plymouth
Plymouth 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 Plymouth 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.
Reader questions
Reader questions
Quick answers
Independent businesses, classes and activities, groups and clubs, markets, and what’s on in and around Plymouth. 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 7 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 Plymouth, 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.