The Farms
Many farms, one standard.
Meet the farmers and farms whose meat appears in our current boxes.
Wensleydale, North Yorkshire
High Fell Farm
Tom Ainsley · Beef shorthorn, mob-grazed
Tom's beef shorthorns spend their days moving across 320 acres of hay meadow on the upper slopes of Wensleydale.
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Swaledale, North Yorkshire
Stoneybeck Farm
Hannah & Will Pearce · Native Swaledale sheep
A husband-and-wife flock of 600 native Swaledales grazed on the same hill their families have farmed for four generations.
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Nidderdale, North Yorkshire
Long Acre Farm
Daniel Holroyd · Tamworth pigs, outdoor-reared
Daniel's ginger Tamworths and spotted Gloucesters root through woodland pasture in a system unchanged for a century.
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Coverdale, North Yorkshire
Hollin Rigg Farm
Margaret Whittle · Saddleback pigs, free-range hens
Margaret took over Hollin Rigg from her father in the 1980s and runs one of the last working Saddleback herds in the Dales.
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Wharfedale, North Yorkshire
Thwaite Hall Farm
Jack & Sarah Metcalfe · Aberdeen Angus, suckler herd
A closed suckler herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus that has not bought in a single animal for over twenty years.
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Westmorland, Cumbria
Raisbeck Farm
Owen Bramley · Herdwick sheep
Owen's Herdwicks are hefted to the same fell his grandfather farmed, a flock that knows its hill by inheritance.
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Lowfield Grange
Reuben Clarke · Mixed arable & free-range chickens
Reuben raises slow-grow Hubbards and Sassos in mobile arks that follow a four-year arable rotation across the Vale.
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Bowland, Lancashire
Ashfold Farm
Esther Lockwood · Belted Galloway beef
Esther's striking belted galloways finish on a mosaic of rough grazing and woodland pasture above the Hodder valley.
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Eden Valley, Cumbria
Broadgate Farm
Ifan Pryce · Welsh Black cattle
Ifan brought a fold of Welsh Blacks north from Powys in 2012 and finishes them on the rich pasture of the Eden Valley.
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Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
The Old Mill Farm
Caleb & Joy Burton · Mangalitsa pigs, woodland-reared
A curly-coated Mangalitsa herd ranging through hazel coppice: the closest thing in Britain to true Iberico-style pork.
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Howgill Fells, Cumbria
Greenside Farm
Phoebe Mottram · Texel-cross lambs, native bloodlines
Phoebe's flock combines Texel finishing with native Bluefaced Leicester bloodlines for a fuller-flavoured spring lamb.
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Teesdale, County Durham
Fellside Cottage Farm
Joshua Ledger · Highland cattle, conservation grazing
Joshua's Highlands work as conservation grazers on a SSSI hay meadow, finishing slowly on the same flowers they help conserve.
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