Hungersheath Farm

Welcome to Hungersheath Farm Shop
We are a family-run dairy farm of 270 acres, located on the beautifully rural Shropshire/Staffordshire border, between Market Drayton and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
We started as a pick-your-own in 1986, we then began to grow and cut asparagus for sale in 1988. We now have 25 acres on the farm growing fruit and vegetables.
Enjoy our new Sunday roast
We are now offering a Sunday roast in our tea room between 12.00 - 2.00pm. Enjoy the fresh meat and veg all produced on the for £10 for two courses. Using our own produce we can offer this delicious meal with using less than 20 food miles!

New Swedish cross bread cows

We have started to cross breed our cows with swedish red bulls which will we hope give us a cow that will have better feet and higher fertility so she will stay in the herd for longer. They will also have more calves and although we will lose some milk with this new breed we hope the welfare of the cows will be improved and therefore will live longer

Our Award Winning Asparagus
Hungersheath Farm is renowned for its award winning Asparagus. The first spears appear at the end of April but the season lasts just eight weeks so feast while you can!Visit the farm shop for our highest quality produce this year.


The farm consists of 200 dairy cows that are milked twice a day giving 7,100 litres of milk on a fairly extensive system relying on our light land to produce quality grass and forage maize. From these girls we produce the beef animals that provides our meat for the farm shop. The farm has 270 acres of land used for both grazing and crops.
Each year for the shop we grow:
14 acres of asparagus 4 acres of Strawberries (1/4 acres poly tunnels, autumn strawberries)1/2 of an acres of Raspberries (1/4 acres poly tunnels, autumn raspberries) 1/4 of an acres of Blackcurrant and Redcurrants1/4 of an acres of Gooseberries
We also grow Rhubarb, Peas, Beans any many many more veg to supply to our shop.
The Farm Shop opened in 2004, with a full butchery, selling our own and local meat. Much of the produce in the shop comes straight from the farm or locally, and we pride ourselves on supporting local businesses. At present, we buy from over 30 businesses within a 35 mile radius. Indeed, even our dedicated staff of ten all live within three miles of the shop too, so we couldn’t be more of a “local shop”!

The Tea Room opened in 2007, converted from a traditional carthouse building. It’s a fantastic setting to enjoy a morning cappuccino, a light meal, a strawberry cream tea, or a traditional Sunday roast. Most of the food prepared comes from the Farm Shop, so it is also local, and it is prepared fresh to order.

Nick and Helen Furnival
We are most famous for our asparagus, and visitors come from far and wide to sample it. It is always such a joy to see our loyal asparagus customers return each year, seeking the ultimate “king of vegetables”, as Nick puts it. “The important time for this year’s crop of asparagus was last summer, after we had finished picking. The fern grew very well, indicating a potentially healthy crop this season. We are also very excited about the new 3 acre patch. This, and the mild weather that we have been having, will give us an early start”

Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries or bookings for school parties to tour the farm.

Shop/Tea Room : 01630 674261

For Private Bookings: 07914869217
Email: helen@hungersheathfarm.co.uk

Hungersheath Farm, Ashley, Market Drayton, Shropshire,
TF9 4EJ