Pipers Farm | All the meat we sell we produce ourselves

All the meat we sell we produce ourselves

We control every detail, allowing our animals to grow slowly, naturally and free from stress.

All the meat we sell we produce ourselves
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Why is this important? It means we have complete control over our meat all the way from the field to your plate, so that you will get the same fabulous eating experience every time you buy from us.
So how do we do this?
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We have spent more than twenty years refining every detail of how our animals are looked after to ensure the best possible quality.
The best people to work on small family farms are the same families who've known and cared for the land for generations, like the Prings, pictured here
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Pipers Farm now supports a network of more than 30 local farming families, from the Culm Valley and beyond, who grow specially for us under our direct control - we provide "bed & breakfast" to Pipers Farm animals is how one of our farmers describes it!
What our animals eat is important
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They graze traditional deep rooted and herb-rich pastures, which draw minerals from deep in the soil, and full of clover which fertilise the grasses naturally by capturing nitrogen from the air - 5-a-day the natural way!
Our local traditional feed mill
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has been run by the Sargent family for over a hundred years. We work closely with them and trust them to produce simple cereal feeds for our pigs and poultry.
All our cattle are pure Red Rubies, born and reared on their mothers on their native Exmoor
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The pasture on which they live can only be used for grazing and has been for hundreds of years. John Richards and his family have farmed the land for four generations, and back in 1797 Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan whilst staying at the farm.
As yearlings, the cattle come down the hill to the lush, herb rich pastures of the Somerset Levels
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They come onto the farm at Athelney where King Alfred burned the cakes and established an abbey to celebrate victory over the Danes in 878AD. This farm belongs to Tim Morgan, whose family have farmed at and near Athelney since records began. "I love to raise cattle this way - no fertiliser, no inputs - farming the Somerset Levels in the natural way"
All our lambs are Suffolk cross
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Chip, our Border Collie sheep-dog, does her best to keep them in order.
Our lambs grow slowly and reach natural maturity on their mothers’ milk and grass.
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Our early lambs are born and reared on the rich grassland of the Culm Valley. Our later lambs are born amongst the heather & moorland pastures on the top of Dartmoor and Exmoor. Once weaned from their mothers, they come down to the richer East Devon grasslands.
Our pigs are Wessex Saddleback cross.
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In the summer they graze in local cider orchards eating any windfalls and sheltering from the hot summer weather in the dappled shade of the cider trees.
In the winter they live in family groups on deep straw beds.
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They are fed only grass, cereals and cider apples!
Our chicken live year round in groups of 200 birds, in airy barns with natural light and natural ventilation.
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They live on a deep bed of sawdust so they can behave as they would in a farmyard, scratching for food and dust-bathing. They are killed on the farm, so no long journeys to a large factory.

"There is a kind of old fashioned rightness and harmony about Pipers Farm in Cullompton, Devon, not only in the manner in which Peter and Henrietta Greig produce their own meat to the highest quality, but in the way they have dedicated themselves to supporting a community of small family farms who share their exacting standards and are happy to be allowed to get on with farming in the old fashioned way, while the Greigs deal expertly with the modern business of selling on-line and delivering."

SHEILA KEATING, THE TIMES - 16th November 2007

All the meat we sell we produce ourselves

So how do we do this?

The best people to work on small family farms are the same families who've known and cared for the land for generations, like the Prings, pictured here

What our animals eat is important

Our local traditional feed mill

All our cattle are pure Red Rubies, born and reared on their mothers on their native Exmoor

As yearlings, the cattle come down the hill to the lush, herb rich pastures of the Somerset Levels

All our lambs are Suffolk cross

Our lambs grow slowly and reach natural maturity on their mothers’ milk and grass.

Our pigs are Wessex Saddleback cross.

In the winter they live in family groups on deep straw beds.

Our chicken live year round in groups of 200 birds, in airy barns with natural light and natural ventilation.