As nature intended
Forage fed pigs
Our pigs eat a largely homegrown diet made up of oats, peas and barley (known as intercrop) with up to 75% nutritious forage. We grow 150 tonnes of intercrop each year for the pigs. For the weaner pigs, generally between 4 and 12 weeks old, we supplement their feed with organic soya grown in the EU. We use 4 tonnes per year of this. Ultimately our aim is to produce a 100% forage fed animal all year round.
Our pigs are a hybrid of rare-breed Tamworth and Large Black crossed with Saddleback or Duroc - slow growing pigs with exceptional flavour, finished at a minimum of 10 months old.
Between April and October you’ll find our pigs grazing herbal leys - species rich mixtures of legumes, grasses and forbs (nutritionally dense, medicating & soil conditioning wonders!).
The pigs instincts to root proves too destructive for the long-term leys over winter so we graze multispecies cover crops instead.
A roundhouse is also used as part of the finishing system where we bed on deep straw.
Heritage and Population Cereals
Re-imagining the grain chain & embedding genetic diversity at every step.
We are exploring and mutipliying varieties expressing unique flavor, nutrition, and distinctive traits suited to low-input growing. Building new and supporting existing population wheats, intercropping and undersowing wherever possible.
