Straight From the Cow

Three generations of the Richardson family have farmed at Carpenters Hill Farm in Beoley. We are currently a mixed livestock farm, using traditional methods and ensuring high welfare for all of our animals.

Our farmland is managed in a sustainable and ecologically sympathetic manner. We use nature to enrich our soil, planting mixed clover and encouraging wildflowers to flourish. This provides a delicious diet for our cattle and ensures the sustainability of our produce.

We are Farmers because we love animals and their wellbeing comes before everything else. We allow our free-range cows to graze natural grass leys that are absent from chemicals. During the summer we harvest the surplus grass to provide high quality silage and hay during the winter months. We know our animals as individuals and know they thrive with the care we provide.

We also have our own pigs, and rather than breeding our own we rear large white, landrace and pietrain pigs. They are kept in high welfare conditions with their own toys such as balls to help keep them stimulated. They are reared in small groups of around 6 to prevent any bullying or fighting within the groups.

Raw milk

Our small herd of 30 Montbéliarde, Friesian and Ayreshire cows have access to fresh grass or silage all year round. During the summer they can roam the fields grazing fresh grass and during the winter are fed silage and hay harvested during the summer months. The milk they produce is high in butterfat and protein and by being raw contains friendly bacteria for good gut health.

We also produce raw cream and raw butter on the farm from surplus raw milk along with live natural yoghurt, mango drinking yoghurt and a variety of flavoured ice creams. All of which are available in the Farm Shop.

Beef

We have a small herd Hereford Suckler cows which produce and rear their own calves. These cattle graze the hills on our farm throughout the summer. It’s important that these calves stay with their mothers suckling their nutritious milk.

The beef we produce for sale is extensively farmed and from our Hereford cross limousin cattle. We only select the best heifers we produce to be sold through our shop so that we can ensure high quality meat which is hung for a minimum of 21 days.

Our beef is cut and packaged by the butchers at Long Compton, a family owned abattoir where minimising stress to any animal is imperative. Long Compton are a non halal abattoir.

Pork and Gammon

We produce a range of pork products from our high welfare pigs. The pigs have fresh straw beds daily and we offer them enrichment toys, such as balls, to stimulate and entertain them. Our pigs are kept in small groups to ensure they are in a safe and secure environment. Our gammon is dry cured using salt rubs and I sliced and packed.

Sausages

Our butchers produce a range of flavoured sausages using prime cuts of shoulder pork. Our sausages have a high meat content and are handmade using high quality ingredients.

Lamb

We source high welfare lamb from a neighbouring farm that produces high quality lamb that is freely roaming grass land on a Warwickshire estate. Lamb is a seasonal product and therefore not available all year round as we only sell spring lamb, as this is when the meat is most tender and flavoursome.