High Fell Farm
Tom Ainsley
Tom's beef shorthorns spend their days moving across 320 acres of hay meadow on the upper slopes of Wensleydale.
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Many farms, one standard.
Butcher Ben works with a growing network of native-breed farms across the Yorkshire Dales and beyond. Below are some of the highlights: a handful of the exceptional farmers whose meat finds its way into our boxes. Meet them, walk their fields, and read why their meat tastes the way it does.
Stoneybeck Farm
Hannah & Will Pearce
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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Long Acre Farm
Daniel Holroyd
Daniel's ginger Tamworths and spotted Gloucesters root through woodland pasture in a system unchanged for a century.
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Hollin Rigg Farm
Margaret Whittle
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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Thwaite Hall Farm
Jack & Sarah Metcalfe
A closed suckler herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus that has not bought in a single animal for over twenty years.
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Raisbeck Farm
Owen Bramley
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
Reuben raises slow-grow Hubbards and Sassos in mobile arks that follow a four-year arable rotation across the Vale.
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Ashfold Farm
Esther Lockwood
Esther's striking belted galloways finish on a mosaic of rough grazing and woodland pasture above the Hodder valley.
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Broadgate Farm
Ifan Pryce
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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The Old Mill Farm
Caleb & Joy Burton
A curly-coated Mangalitsa herd ranging through hazel coppice: the closest thing in Britain to true Iberico-style pork.
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Greenside Farm
Phoebe Mottram
Phoebe's flock combines Texel finishing with native Bluefaced Leicester bloodlines for a fuller-flavoured spring lamb.
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Fellside Cottage Farm
Joshua Ledger
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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