About Brockley Stores
More than just a farm shop. More than just a deli!
Our store in Brockley, near Bristol, is bursting with mouth-watering, real food, produced by local people who share our love for real food.
But what do we mean by real food?
Good question! ‘Real food’ is the way that we describe yummy things that are part of a healthy diet, sourced responsibly and have an overwhelmingly positive impact on the lives of the people around us.
It’s a term that comes from the core ethics; living in harmony with our local environment, helping people to fulfil their eating choices, minimising food miles and farming ethically.
More importantly, real food tastes fantastic!
Whether you have specialist dietary requirements, a vegan, vegetarian, fruitarian, or even a raw foodie, we strive to support your choices and help to make it easy for you to find the information you need to make your shopping experience free of worries.
The only thing that isn’t green is our bananas!
To continue to produce our healthy natural products, we need to help look after the environment, which is just one reason why we’re committed to green and clean living at Brockley. Just little things can make a difference, so we save all our boxes for customers to reuse to cut down on plastic waste. And we’re not stopping there.
About Brockley Stores
More than just a farm shop. More than just a deli!
Our store in Brockley, near Bristol, is bursting with mouth-watering, real food, produced by local people who share our love for real food.
But what do we mean by real food?
Good question! ‘Real food’ is the way that we describe yummy things that are part of a healthy diet, sourced responsibly and have an overwhelmingly positive impact on the lives of the people around us.
It’s a term that comes from the core ethics; living in harmony with our local environment, helping people to fulfil their eating choices, minimising food miles and farming ethically.
More importantly, real food tastes fantastic!
Whether you have specialist dietary requirements, a vegan, vegetarian, fruitarian, or even a raw foodie, we strive to support your choices and help to make it easy for you to find the information you need to make your shopping experience free of worries.
The only thing that isn’t green is our bananas!
To continue to produce our healthy natural products, we need to help look after the environment, which is just one reason why we’re committed to green and clean living at Brockley. Just little things can make a difference, so we save all our boxes for customers to reuse to cut down on plastic waste. And we’re not stopping there.
“You can buy so many things in here now, it’s like a tardis in here!”
Anonymous Customer
History & Future
From the side of the road!
There has been a store (or at least stall!!) here for almost 100 years. In 2016, disillusioned by the state of mass-market retail, Rob Hagen took on a small shop on the side of the road, near by to Bristol Airport. There seemed to be a race to the bottom on price, quality and taste at the expense of community and our planet.
Determined to bring people together over food, connect people with where it comes from and leave people grinning, the latest Brockley Stores was born.
A huge number of locally farmed and produced products were introduced and the business began to thrive.
In 2018, a modern, purpose built commercial kitchen was built to allow us to expand our food offering using the same amazing ingredients we sold to the local community.
Rob’s vision is to change shoppers’ understandings of where food comes from, what modern day farming is and what real food looks, tastes and feels like, while educating about environmental impacts along the way.
We’re an ambitious bunch, with plans to expand our store and our online shopping range over the coming months.
To the heart of St Mark’s Road!
In 2019, Rob had realised there were people screaming out for good food all over the South West. He took on the incredible East Bristol Bakery and started building up the team to develop their range of pastries, bread and cakes. The same ethos for ingredients as Brockley, we use just Organic Shipton Mill flour, salt, water and starter in our bread.
This also meant, we could now supply incredible bread and pastries to Brockley Stores as well as a small number of wholesale accounts.
The birth of The Public Market
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rob worked with a now somewhat expanded team to develop The Public Market.
The new store opened in November 2020 on Mivart Street, Easton, nestled amongst the incredible Mivart Studios.
A retailer, baker and deli with a passion for amazing tasting, locally sourced, ethical food. We’ve brought in some of the most talented, but most importantly kindest people to make and sell food that puts a smile on your face.
From Retail to Catering!
By 2022, our retail businesses had become established, loved parts of their communities. We now employ more than 50 people across three sites and source food from more than 100 local growers, producers and farmers.
But now people were also asking for us to help them cater for business events, family gatherings, birthdays, picnics and celebrations. People and mindful businesses wanted to bring incredible, seasonal, local, ethical food to their gatherings. They didn’t want mass produced, intensively farmed, low welfare and low taste food.
So in May, we launched our catering business and are now delighted to be able to help you enjoy incredible times with friends or colleagues through delicious food.
History & Future
From the side of the road!
There has been a store (or at least stall!!) here for almost 100 years. In 2016, disillusioned by the state of mass-market retail, Rob Hagen took on a small shop on the side of the road, near by to Bristol Airport. There seemed to be a race to the bottom on price, quality and taste at the expense of community and our planet.
Determined to bring people together over food, connect people with where it comes from and leave people grinning, the latest Brockley Stores was born.
A huge number of locally farmed and produced products were introduced and the business began to thrive.
In 2018, a modern, purpose built commercial kitchen was built to allow us to expand our food offering using the same amazing ingredients we sold to the local community.
Rob’s vision is to change shoppers’ understandings of where food comes from, what modern day farming is and what real food looks, tastes and feels like, while educating about environmental impacts along the way.
We’re an ambitious bunch, with plans to expand our store and our online shopping range over the coming months.
To the heart of St Mark’s Road!
In 2019, Rob had realised there were people screaming out for good food all over the South West. He took on the incredible East Bristol Bakery and started building up the team to develop their range of pastries, bread and cakes. The same ethos for ingredients as Brockley, we use just Organic Shipton Mill flour, salt, water and starter in our bread.
This also meant, we could now supply incredible bread and pastries to Brockley Stores as well as a small number of wholesale accounts.
The birth of The Public Market
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rob worked with a now somewhat expanded team to develop The Public Market.
The new store opened in November 2020 on Mivart Street, Easton, nestled amongst the incredible Mivart Studios.
A retailer, baker and deli with a passion for amazing tasting, locally sourced, ethical food. We’ve brought in some of the most talented, but most importantly kindest people to make and sell food that puts a smile on your face.
From Retail to Catering!
By 2022, our retail businesses had become established, loved parts of their communities. We now employ more than 50 people across three sites and source food from more than 100 local growers, producers and farmers.
But now people were also asking for us to help them cater for business events, family gatherings, birthdays, picnics and celebrations. People and mindful businesses wanted to bring incredible, seasonal, local, ethical food to their gatherings. They didn’t want mass produced, intensively farmed, low welfare and low taste food.
So in May, we launched our catering business and are now delighted to be able to help you enjoy incredible times with friends or colleagues through delicious food.