Market day
Lymington Charter Market, this Saturday, 8am to 4pm
8 miles away, and the nearest market in the next 14 days.
Hearabouts, by email soon
What’s on · Buy local · Markets · Groups & clubs
New Forest
Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around New Forest.
understead
Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.
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In the shops
Buy local in New Forest: 7 independents
All 7, by category →Honey & Bee Products
Sticky Sisters Honey
Sticky Sisters Honey keeps bees in and around Dorset, harvesting seasonally and selling the honey unblended. The business…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Hockey’s Farm Shop
Hockey's Farm Shop raises rare breed British Lop pigs on the farm and sells the meat through its…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Love Organic
This is Sana, picking tomatoes with her grandson on the family's small holding in the New Forest .
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Also here: Sunnyfields Organic Farm, Little Timbers, New Forest Honey., Wild Close Bees. And 1 more, by category →
Explore all 7 local businesses
Honey & Bee Products
Little Timbers, New Forest Honey.
Little Timbers keeps bees in and around the New Forest, harvesting seasonally and selling the honey…
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Honey & Bee Products
The Noble Bee
The Noble Bee keeps bees in rural Hampshire, harvesting honey by season and selling it raw.…
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Farm Shops & Local Retail
Sunnyfields Organic Farm
Sunnyfields Farm Shop is open 7 days a week offering fresh local produce. All are welcome…
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Health, Beauty & Wellbeing
Wild Close Bees
Wild Close Bees is a family-run apiary in the New Forest, producing small batches of honey…
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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 New Forest 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 New Forest look like New Forest.
- 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 New Forest
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
Home, Garden & More
Every category →
Browse by category
Food & Drink
- Fresh Produce & Growers
- Microgreens
- Gourmet Mushrooms
- Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
- Cheese & Dairy
- Baking
- Preserves, Pickles & Ferments
- Pantry Goods
- Tea, Coffee & Confectionery
- Drinks, Brewing & Distilling
- Honey & Bee Products
- Herbs & Botanicals
Makers & Crafts
- 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
Find local teachers, classes, workshops and experiences around New Forest, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.
Browse by category
Health & movement
- Yoga
- Pilates
- Zumba
- Tai Chi & Qigong
- Fitness Classes
- Boxing
- Martial Arts
- Swimming Lessons
- Meditation & Mindfulness
Music & performance
- Dance Classes
- Singing Lessons
- Drama Classes
- Piano Lessons
- Guitar Lessons
- Music Lessons
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
Pilates
Wildflower Pilates Studio
Charlie Storrie teaches Pilates from Wildflower Pilates Studio, beside a walled garden in the grounds of the Hinton Admiral Estate in the New Forest, in a…
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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 →
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 New Forest, and search nearby
Around New Forest
New Forest 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 New Forest 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 New Forest. 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 New Forest, 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.