Welcome to Buttervilla Growers
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Buttervilla micro leaf, herbs, funky leaves, vegetables, fruits and edible flowers are hand grown in Cornwall using organic methods with much love and care. Started in 2006 by Robert Hocking who lives at Buttervilla Farm and B&B and Sean O'Neill who is based at nearby Keveral Farm we aim to produce the finest leaves, fruits and vegetables available.

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.

Interview with Fifteen Cornwall

2012 Heirloom Tomato List now Online here

Photos from our first heirloom harvest 2011

We have joined with Oakleaf European Ltd who will be distributing our produce to restaurants throughout the land and beyond, apart from our home territory of Cornwall & Devon. We choose to work with Oakleaf as they support producers who have chosen to by-pass intensive farming methods that ignore the soil, the sun and insist on over-watering, consequently substituting flavour for yield. Instead they offer regional produce that keeps everything natural and simple. It is an honest philosophy that matches our ethos.
Contact Oakleaf European - 01202 393311
www.oakleaf-european.co.uk

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."

Ready Now At Buttervilla Image Gallery - July 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.

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

Buttervilla Media:

The Times on Toms Aug 2011

Soho-House Group Cookhouse magazine feature April 2011

Here's a great little film featuring our produce

We are featured on prime time German TV station ZDF

Metro Londons free daily has photos of our micro leaf

Rose Prince visits Buttervilla for the Telegraph

This article made us smile - Organic Rock Star!! 

An Introduction to Our Produce
We grow over 30+ varieties of leaf ranging from the usual cress, chard and radish to the more unusual oyster leaf, celtuce, Italiko chicory, mountain spinache and ice plant along with seasonal foraged leaves. We grow parsley, tarragon, several types of mint together with a range of other culinary herbs. Edible flowers are very beautiful and add that something special to the plate. We grow several varieties from large rock roses to the tiniest rocket and borage flowers and also supply a range of wild harvest flowers. Not only do they look stunning but add subtle flavours to the dish.

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.

We deliver direct from Buttervilla to the North Cornwall coast on Tuesdays and Fridays during the season, we also courier our produce overnight to anywhere in England