- Delivery to UK & Ireland
- Ethical & Sustainable Meat Boxes
- Slow Food Award Winners
We’re a forward thinking farm providing ethical and sustainable produce fresh from our small farm in Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland.
We set up the farm back in 2011, when we saw that a majority of male kid goats born to the dairy industry were being put down at birth. This seemed such an unnecessary waste so we set out to take those males and rear them ourselves for delicious and healthy cabrito kid goat meat. Since then we’ve branched out into rearing other ethical meat options such as free-range rose veal, pasture raised pork and lamb and chicken’s eggs. In 2019 we began producing regeneratively grown vegetables in our fields and two polytunnels.
We now have our own artisan on-site butchery, where we process all of our meat and also offer contract butchery to other small producers. In our classroom we run a range of “good life” courses showcasing traditional food and smallholding skills such as foraging, herbalism seasonal cookery classes, fermenting and cheesemaking.
Every Friday-Sunday we open up our doors to the public with our delicious farm cafe and shop where we serve up a very tasty lunch menu.
We also deliver our meat boxes all over Ireland and the UK.
The farm is situated three miles from the rugged North Antrim coastline, nestled between the towns of Ballycastle and Bushmills.
The farm is roughly a third arable, a third improved grazing and a third rough hill ground. With a stream running through it, a small pond, beehives, orchard, clusters of mature trees and well maintained native hedgerows it really is an environmental paradise.
We believe in sustainable food sourcing, be it the the reduction in the culling of males produced in the dairy industry as a ‘by-product’, and instead utilizing them as the superb resource they are, or, the way in which we fail to use our beautiful Game resource, favoring farmed game instead, and, Even simple food miles.
Our belief in a sustainable food chain has seen us promote local diversification in farmsteads encouraging other farmers with by-products to think differently.
We have extended beyond the realms of a mere sustainable food chain to try and become a leading example of sustainable living.
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Our butchery facility was incorporated into traditional stone-built barns aiming to be vernacular with the surrounding area. Solar thermal energy was incorporated for the heating of the water.
A large settlement tank has been installed for the recording and monitoring of the effluent, allowing for the future installation of a specifically designed water treatment facility. We reduce the overall use of water using low flow appliances and effective water management plans.
We were active members in the Countryside Management Scheme (CMS) between 2006-2015. Under the scheme we have actively restored the majority of the farms field boundaries with double fencing, re-established dry-stone walls, sheughs and ditches. We have also aimed to plant approximately 10% of the Farm with woodland or shelter belts.
Our hedgerow restoration has been designed in such a manner as to encourage Wildlife Corridors between tree plantings, allowing for abundant and plentiful habitat. We have also made a personal proposal to plant areas of wildflower and bird cover mixes to encourage wildlife.
A third of the farm was designated as Species Rich Grassland under the CMS, and subject to restricted grazing and machinery operations to encourage Nesting Birds and Wildflowers. Another third is protected under unimproved grassland and the remaining as improved grassland However, we have always strived to go beyond this.
In 2006 we built a state of the art farmhouse incorporating solar thermal heating, an air-source heat pump, an MVHR (Mechanical-Ventilation with Heat Recovery) system, wind energy (windmills), heavy use of insulation, a wood pellet boiler and a wood stove.
More specifically, the house also has two 10,000lt rain water harvesting tanks plumbed to supply all non-potable water, with the infrastructure in place to use a UV treatment & filter system to supply potable water in the future. Wastewater is transported to a biokube waste water treatment facility before discharging to a pond for tertiary treatment by reeds and plants; finally returning clean to the local waterway.
Where to next? We are always looking ahead, we hope to increase our service to you, by making better use of our farmers markets, making our products more accessible.
If we cant get to you though, have no fear, as we’ve invested heavily in our online shop, and can now offer deliveries throughout the UK and ROI.
That’s not all though, we have a sustainable development plan aiming constantly to re-address our environmental impact. So what have we got so far? On the farm side our plans are to incorporate rain water harvesting tanks, photo-voltaic panels, and there’s even a feasibility study looking at the potential for Hydro-electric on our stream!
