High welfare meat boxes from the UK

Animal welfare is at the forefront of small farms in the UK. Not just our farm – countless others dotted around our incredible countryside.

We work hard with our farming videos and on our podcast to uncover more about the family farm – we want you to feel connected to where your meat comes from, so we can all appreciate what goes into producing high welfare, grassland beef and lamb.

Small Farming needs to work

As much as farming is a businesses… if we’re being honest, the majority of small farms in the UK wouldn’t exist if money was the sole motivator there’s a heck of a lot more to it than that.

Nonetheless it’s hard to make financial sense of farming, which is the shocking truth disrupting this industry:

• Around 16% of farms in the UK failed to make a positive income by GOV UK
• The gravity of declining profits and financial pressures on farmers by GOV Wales
• A dying rural dream — is this the end for the family farm? by the Financial Times

Taking care of native grassland and working in harmony with animals is at the heart of what traditional farming is all about here in the UK. Grass to graze in the summer, and a bed in a barn for the winter. That’s why I believe so strongly in writing about high welfare meat in this way, and I’m taking steps to sell our own quality meat boxes (when available) from our farm just outside of Buckingham in the UK.

High Welfare Farming has a future

Hi I’m Rufus, a farmers son trying hard to work out what it means to be a farmer. I’ve started researching the future of grassfed beef and lamb here in the UK and continue to write and make videos about my mum and the farm.

Grass-fed animals, free to wander, free of stress was always the traditional way to rear livestock, it’s also the future of eating meat.

As we move away from more intensive farming, in which farm subsidies rewarded quantity, we’re seeing a significant shift in how the government supports farms here in the UK, and an even more exciting shift in how meat is being demanded.

We’re becoming increasingly concerned about how our meat is being reared, and where on this earth it all comes from. I’m excited about this shift. The great reset. Encouraging a new wave of people focussed on great quality, and demanding higher standards.

High Welfare Meat Boxes

Meat boxes purchased through small UK farms with high welfare standards is the very best way to buy meat.

It’s environmentally conscious, it’s economically considerate and it’s the way our grandparents would do it. With seasonal expectations, a respect for scarcity and an understanding conscience. So when you buy high welfare meat boxes, you’re not just supporting the animal in a better life, you’re voting for;

• Permanent pasture. Animals out on grass, animals fertilizing that grass. Grassland is at the forefront of our habitat here in the UK.
• A traditional way of farming and giving back to the land.
• The farmers that go the extra mile to maintain their stock.
• A higher quality end product that’s full of flavour.
• A happier and natural life for the animal.

Quite the introduction I know. Going forward I’ll be exploring these points in more detail because they all need to be unpacked. Please reach out to me directly if there’s more I need to consider.