home grown produce
wild range Longhorn cattle, Tamworth pigs and fallow deer are free to roam their entire lives in 2000 acres of parkland, foraging as they would in the wild, feeding on over 250 herbs and grasses and, in the autumn, feasting on a bounty of acorns dropped from our famous Sussex oaks. Our animals are naturally slow-growing and the young can suckle for as long as nature intended. Our meat is as natural as you can get - and therefore particularly tender and full of flavour, and hopefully appealing to the ethical consumer.

 

     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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