We are very passionate about our animals and our main priority is giving them a good quality of life. All our pigs are kept outdoors, the sows are allowed to farrow in theIr own arks. The piglets usually start to come out of the arks within the first 24 hours, our view is not to interfere unless it is absolutely necessary. Even our 2 boars Seth and Fred are in outdoor pens.
We have been fortunate enough to keep our pigs on our neighbours farm since 2000. The Tobutt family produce seasonal apples, pears and seasonal soft fruits. The pigs are fed all the fallen fruit from the farm which we feel adds to the superb taste of our meat.
Our main breeding sows are pedigree Saddlebacks and Oxford Sandy and Blacks, Seth is our Large White boar, we have found by cross breeding the sows with Seth the meat is leaner.
We just thought you would like to know what has been happening on the farm lately, first of all we had a visit from Andrew Webb a Channel 4 food journalist, he came and spent an afternoon with us feeding the pigs and has put a write up about the farm on the Channel 4 Food Map, if you would like to read what he has to say just go on our link page and click on Channel 4 Food Map.
We went to the Earls Court Food Festival and one of the House and Garden jounalist tasted our sweet cured gammon and give us a free advert in the magazine.
We also have been in the Kent Life Magazine and Martina Cole who is one of our customers mentioned us in the Food Monthly Magazine, which is great for us.
We would like to thank everybody that supports us and believes in what we are doing. THANK YOU!!
