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Beef -
Our longhorn herds of
cattle are now organic and are
gradually growing in number. We
normally retail them
through Shon Sprackling's Rother Valley
Organics, but with the recession taking
its toll on the prime beef market, 2009 saw
our wonderful animals harvested through the
conventional supermarket trade. We hope that
this wonderful product may find its way to
top restaurants in the future.
Pork -
we don't know of anywhere else where pigs
roam free over 1500 acres of grass fields,
woods and rivers; foraging for grubs and
roots in the winter and grazing in the
summer with no artificial feed. Each
autumn we take a harvest from our
little herd and make some wonderful air-dried ham to rival Serrano!
Surplus animals are again retailed
through Rother Valley
Organics.
Venison
- each year we cull, using expert marksmen,
a number of fallow deer in the park for the
sustainable management of the herd, and
occasionally roe deer elsewhere on the
Estate. The resulting venison -
wild-reared and entirely chemical-free - is
quite superb and naturally tender. At
present we wholesale our venison to
Chanctonbury Game in Washington, a
neighbouring game dealer, who sells our
produce in local farmers markets.
Small game
and fowl - we occasionally have
pheasant, rabbit, pigeon and duck
(predominately widgeon, teal & mallard)
available. Please do let us know if
you are interested though be warned they
would be supplied in the feather or fur!
Firewood,
charcoal & Timber –
Please
support our Woodyard run by Paul Copsey of
Heritage Conservation on 07885 285311 who
retails logs and excellent quality sawn
timber. And he delivers.
All orders or interest and further
information is via Jason at the estate
office 01403 741235 / jason@knepp.co.uk
or alternatively try Rother Valley Organics
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