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Buttervilla exceptional produce: heritage tomatoes, gariguette, mara des bois and Royal sovereign strawberries, polka raspberries, blackcurrant's, red gooseberries, herbs plus a range of special salads and vegetables are hand grown in Cornwall using organic methods with much love and care.

Everything is grown on a small scale, cropped young and tender, then harvested and delivered in hours for that special freshness that sets us apart.

What the Chefs say:

Gidleigh Park, Devon - 2 Michelin Stars
Are Buttervilla Growers biggest single customer for its very special micro leaf, herbs and edible flowers. They have the top spot in the 2010 Britain's Top 100 Restaurants guide published by the Sunday Times

Ian Webber - Head Chef
"The quality has been fantastic and I can see a real difference in the food leaving the kitchen, as well as the improvement in the flavour, thank you very much for your perseverance , we are now starting to see the benefits"

The Ledbury, Notting Hill, London - 2 Michelin Stars
Brett Graham
"I actually feel emotional at the quality of your produce and tonight used some of the herbs and roasted a whole Parsnip in Brown butter and Malt for a table and sent it into the room to show the table."

Our heirloom tomatoes, not only red but yellow, pink, purple, green and black, they come in lots of shapes and sizes and have many admirers Available from late June they bring back amazing flavours that have been lost to commercial growing methods and the use of modern hybrid varieties that consider shelf life to be more important than taste. See the fruit page for the 2011 heirloom tomato varieties were growing.

We grow some fine and tasty soft fruit - gariguette and mara des bois strawberries, polka raspberries, ben conan blackcurrant's along with smaller amounts of red gooseberries, wild strawberries and white currants. Each season the plants are mulched with old farmyard compost, no chemical sprays are used and they drink from our wells of sweet spring water. No wonder they taste a bit special.

Vegetables are available from May until Dec. Courgette's, broad beans, artichokes, mange tout, spinach and beetroot, not only red but gold and stripy are just some of what's available in season.

Interview with Fifteen Cornwall

Rose Prince visits Buttervilla for the Telegraph

This article made us smile - Organic Rock Star!! 

Here's a great little film featuring our produce

The Times on Toms Aug 2011

Soho-House Group Cookhouse magazine feature April 2011

Rose Prince
The Telegraph Lead Food writer
Good Food Producers Guide 2011
Buttervilla Farm is run by Robert Hocking an inspirational grower who has got together with two other farms, Keveral and Skye Grove to grow a range of extraordinary and diverse plants including heritage tomatoes, edible flowers and microleaf (infant food plant leaves to scatter over salads and grills) The produce is organic and in the case of Skye Grove ultra-green since all the ploughing is actually done using draught horses. The quality of the vegetables and the variety is awesome – it makes you want to cook.

Jamie and Robert - April 2012

Neil Haydock
Executive Chef - Watergate Bay -Cornwall
Buttervilla has been teasing us with their Gariguette strawberries (the best you will ever taste) raspberries, red gooseberries, blackcurrant's and the promise of the first heritage tomatoes

Brett Graham
The Ledbury
Notting Hill
"Those Artichokes are the best and freshest i may have seen in my years of
cooking"

Mat & Amanda Follas
The Wild Garlic
Masterchef winner 2009
We're loving the micros, they make all the difference to the presentation

From BMI Airways flight mag spring 2011