What we don't do

We don't buy boxed, pre-cut meat. We take the whole animal and break it down here.

We don't buy single cuts off a wholesaler. We take the whole animal or none of it. One exception: a few popular pork cuts (spider steak, trotters, ribs) we top up through PQA's certified Porc Fermier scheme, the cooperative our whole pigs already come from.

We don't sell meat from a slaughterhouse we can't name.

We don't buy through the big abattoirs. The ones we use are small.

We don't carry an animal we can't trace to a named farm or reserve.

We don't force supply. When the Galloway is gone, the beef is gone, sometimes for weeks.

We don't use routine antibiotics, because the people we buy from don't.

We don't use artificial flavourings or fillers in the charcuterie.

We don't knock the farmer's price down. Paid properly, he keeps his best animals for us.