For fans of Daylesford, the organic farm shop that spawned a mini empire and changed the face of grocery shopping for the one-percenters, there is no greater treat than a visit to the mothership near Kingham in Oxfordshire. Here, in a cluster of immaculate farm buildings, you can browse an equally immaculate collection of life’s essentials — from homegrown carrots to $192 dinner plates and $256 jars of honey. It’s the rural dream writ so large that even the reassuringly expensive crunch of gravel in the car park is enough to spark lifestyle envy.
There is a downside, though: it’s in the Cotswolds. Beautiful region, yes, but, this year especially, largely freezing and wet. If only, you can’t help wondering as you pass the beautifully appointed outdoor dining spaces, there was a way to swap the clouds and cold for blue skies and sunshine.
