Friendly family run shop with plenty of choice to choose from. This is the type of shop where you…read morego in and spend very little and come out with bags bursting with bargains! Lots of variety of apples and vegetables. You can buy them already packaged and weighed up or select your own from the self pick variety offered. Great place to get your five a day.

This is great place to go for your fresh fruit and veg,all of the stuff is well laid out,there is a…read moregreat selection which include carrots,turips,potatoes,sprouts,etc. The shop is reasonable cheap for what you get,so you get value for your money. staff are friendly.

The market is full of all different stalls which include stalls such as shoes,baby…read moreclothes,underwear,bags,make up sweets stalls.There is a nice cafe right in the centre of the market,there is also a small butchers that provide meats such as bacon ribs,beef,chicken,pork. The prices are all very reasonable in all of the stalls. The staff are all very friendly and helpful.

fantastic new stall has now opened in st marys market,for all your dance needs unit 26 facing…read morecafe,(,BLU PRINT DESIGN DANCEWEAR ) dance sneakers,dance pants,leotards,ballet shoes,tapshoes, dance bags, costumebags, hoodie,s etc ,the can also print your name on your dancewear or your dance school logo onto your dancewear for you ,they also cater for morriss dancers ,cheer leaders, just been and bought some pom poms and cheerleader socks from there, can,t believe how reasonable their prices are, i usually have to travel all the way into liverpool to get such things, saved my self a small fortune in train fare or bus fare , hope everyone in the area supports them .

Great farm shop selling seasonal fruit and vegetables and there as fresh as you can get! There…read morecurrently doing strawberry picking so get yourself down there and grab a punnet, it's around £5 pound a punnet which seems expensive but once weighed you do get a lot for your money and the luxury of picking them yourself. They also sell those little luxuries you don't see in a supermarket (cartmel sticky toffee pudding) and lots more. Kenyon Hall farm also has a beautiful garden centre, cafe indoor & outdoor as well as an outdoor park for children. Nice place to visit for an afternoon.

We went strawberry picking one fine saturday to Kenyon Hall Farm. The farm is not too far from J22…read moreof the M6 and has a decent sized car park. The only way into the picking area is through the farm shop and cafe. You queue up, choose a picking basket and follow the teddy bear to get to the strawberry fields. Spend as much time as you like, pick as many strawberries as your basket can hold and then return to the farm shop and pay for the day's haul. The farm shop also sells locally sourced meats, sausages, vegetables, preserves, jams etc. They also have a cafe selling hot and cold food and drinks, which are reasonably priced. In addition to picking your own, you also have the option to buy potted plants and bring them home. I think we got some basil, mint and chilli. I thoroughly enjoyed the strawberry picking experience, which was enhanced by a sunny day. I would definitely recommend this place, especially if you have little kids that need to be entertained on a fine summer's day.

You want local and fresh? You want independent and cheap? You want it delivered to you're home or…read moreoffice? Well by golly, it's a good job Adam's Apple is around. There are crates and crates of every kind of fruit and veg you can think of; the cherries looked particularily yummy today! And they had flat mushrooms on offer so I had to indulge...(mushrooms may be fungus but they taste darn good!) I always feel good about myself when I buy from places like this, it's very friendly and chatty in here, busy when I went in, rustic in character and a damn sight better than the big Tesco up the road!

Adam's Apple is a great local fruit and veg shop. There is nothing that I like better than a shop…read morebrimming full with fresh fruit and veg and english flags flying! Bananas, pineapples, cherries, apricots, peaches, apples, pears, oranges, broad beans, onions, tomatoes, lettuce. I could go on and on. They also have some beautiful plants on sale including pansies. Adam's Apples offer a really good service and if you can't get to the shop because you are too busy or don't live nearby - it's ok! They offer office and home delivery! Cool!

If you want to buy good quality organic meat direct from the farmer, look no further! The family…read morebehind this place actually run two farms -- one near Haigh Hall in Wigan, and this place just off the East Lancs road (the A580) in St Helens. The quality of the meat they provide cannot be understated -- it's fantastic. And as I say, you can cut out the middle-man and buy directly from them -- simply check out the website, ring the farmer, and arrange to pick up what you need whenever is mutually convenient. At a time when many of us are becoming increasingly concerned about food miles and the provenance of what we eat, I cannot recommend these good people heartily enough.

Community farms are such a good thing! Whereas if you set foot on most commercial farms you are…read moreprobably trespassing, startling animals or taking a risk in terms of health and safety, the whole purpose of community farms is to let everyone who wants get hands on. Greenslate is probably the big daddy of community farms locally. It would seem a decent amount of funding has allowed them to quickly develop the site and the range of activities they offer. I've visited Greenslate just the once for their Xmas Fair, and a what an impressive event it was. The scene was like Constable tableau redone for our times. The allotments, the market garden of field and polytunnel crops, the farm shop (all fruit & veg sold here is organic), stalls by local craftspeople, pigs, goat, chickens, outdoor pizza oven, a cauldron of beans cooking over an open fire. Homebaking and also hot food was available on the day - jacket potatoes with beans, vegan curry or goat curry - something for everyone, really! Greenslate is a care farm, so you could perhaps ask to be referred here as a care client, but everyone is welcome to volunteer and lend a hand. I know one mum who brings her 4-year old to the kids club, and she tells me her daughter loves it. Other friends have enjoyed the djembe African drum circle events in the tipi. I'm interested in market gardening and cooking myself. I like the look of their winter polytunnel salads, which are cut to order so it really doesn't come fresher! They also have an orchard of over 30 different varieties of fruit trees (apples, plums, pears, etc). Once that matures, that will be a fantastic educational resource to show at a glance how well various fruit tree varieties grow locally. If you are looking to change the world, note that Greenslate is an organic permaculture farm, and central part of Billinge & Orrell Transition Town. Good to get involved!

From the owner: We are a community farm, here to grow local food which we serve up in our own cafe. We do great…read morebreakfasts and have lots of really good Vegetarian and Vegan options. All our cakes are home baked with organic flower. Our shop is stocked with lots of healthy, ethical stock including a range of plastic free goods. We have lots of kids activities on the farm including kids club and farm club. The farm has chickens, goats, rabbits, pigs, ducks. Of course, we have lots of lovely fresh eggs. Our animals are looked after by people with learning difficulties in our care farm. Entrance to the site is usually free and dogs are welcome in our cafe. Come and explore our 12 acres of woodland and finish up with a coffee and slice of cake in the cafe.