Happy, healthy, quality meat, produced on well managed land.

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We started producing our own meat 20 years ago, when we bought our first 3 Hampshire Down sheep.

We chose Hampshire Down as they are the native breed with the largest chop muscle. We have both always loved food so the eating quality took priority!

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With that in mind we have always strived to produce food that both tastes amazing and is healthy for those who eat it.

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Joe is a practicing farm animal vet and his many years of experience ensure his animals are kept in the very best of health.   Over the years we have learnt more and more about the raising of animals, management of land and the environment, and qualities of meat and how to achieve them.

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Through keeping our animals outside year-round, on a diet almost entirely produced on our farm and 100% forage, selecting for good-natured animals that enjoy our low-stress methods and thrive in our Northumbrian climate, minimising the use of large machinery and plastics, rotationally grazing the fields to allow the plants to express themselves, we have seen an increase in biodiversity on the land we farm, both above and in the soil, and we get to eat tender, tasty, healthy meat, full of the taste of Coquetdale.   We also have happy, healthy animals. It is a win-win-win-win situation!

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We now have around 150 sheep – Hampshire Downs, Romneys and Merinos, 100 cattle – mostly Luing, 3 dairy cows, around 20 egg-laying free-range hens, and rear up to 100 pastured chickens a year.

We sell our lamb, beef and chickens through meat sale days here on the farm, and our eggs through an honesty box on the footpath that runs through the farm.

We drink our own milk, and are working on a system to sell to the public in the future.

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Please keep a look out for our Next pop up Farm shop Sale.   The sale is held inside our barn which is easy to find, directly opposite the entrance to the Farm.   

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