Cedarbarn Farm Shop& Café

Cedarbarn sits on the A170 between Pickering and Thornton-le-Dale, on the 200-acre working farm run by Karl Avison, a fourth-generation farmer, and his wife Mandy. The business began in 1995 as a pick-your-own fruit stall and has grown into a farm shop with its own butchery counter, selling the Aberdeen Angus beef and Abermax cross lamb that Karl rears with neighbouring farmers, alongside a deli counter and locally grown fruit and vegetables. An 80-seat café serves breakfast, lunch and a Sunday roast, and the site runs a miniature railway through the school holidays plus pick-your-own strawberry picking in summer. The farm shop has taken recognition at the Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards. It sits a mile from Pickering, close to the North York Moors steam railway line, and remains a single, family-owned operation rather than part of any wider farm shop chain.