When you work with farmers, you often stop relying on the calendar altogether and instead use the farmer's concerns to know what time of year it is. The end of March, and the beginning of April is the busiest time of the year as we come into...

Switch it up this Easter by discovering our selection of alternative meats for Easter Sunday dinner. While lamb is the most popular meat choice in the UK for Easter, we believe there are many other great cuts to get your fork into this Spring. Discover our top alternative meat cuts which you can…

This Spring we're delighted to be making available milk fed British veal. A delicacy, it's prized by chefs for its delicate taste, close texture, and pale, pink colour. We're stocking a great variety of cuts - more so than we have before -...

This week is Great British pie week, celebrating the art of pie making. A staple of traditional British cuisine, pies are historically working man's food, though today it's to be found in top restaurants, as well as in football grounds and pubs....

It can be tricky to get that perfect finish for your roasting joint, here are my tips for the best results in the kitchen. For roasting your celebration joint, I would suggest buying a meat thermometer; a really useful tool to get your...

We're pleased to announce the launch of our Private Selection of 45 Day Dry Matured Beef It isn't the first thing that springs to mind when shopping for beef, that is, how long it's been matured for. Yet this detail is what defines...

Getting a chop or steak just right can be tricky. These tips below are designed to help you get the perfect finish and texture for your steak, to preserve the intrinsic flavours of the native breeds, and ensure you don't over cook anything! ...

Sausages are a real specialty of most cuisines throughout the world but ours here in Britain are unique. That's because we tend...

This Autumn we're delighted to be offering mutton for the first time. A choice cut of rich, flavoursome meat; mutton sadly is almost a lost delicacy in the British Isles, though it used to once be a staple of our diets. Now with the help of Prince...

The Angus must carry the title as most popular beef breed in the world. Maybe not the most populous, but certainly the most cited as a provider of well-marbled quality beef. Nowadays vast herds of Angus roam the prairies of America, as well...

It's always nice to be able to offer a breed consistently, and due to the popularity of our Swaledale lamb, for the foreseeable future we'll be able to offer it on a weekly basis. That's not always the case, due to our fondness of rare...

With the Autumn chill setting in, slow cooks are back on the menu. Cuts like minced and diced beef, pork, or lamb, are perfect for producing warming dishes, will deep flavour and character. Here are my tips for getting the very best out of your slow...

The leaves already in the Dales are beginning to blow down, and as the game season unfolds as it has for centuries in our neck of the woods, seasonal slow cooks and casseroles are beginning to feature more on the menu, to banish the chill. ...

The harvest is already under way in the Fells and Dales, with our new farmer Mr David Harrison of Nook Farm getting his own fodder ready for the winter already. That saves him having to use industrial style feeds. David farms the land near...

It's been quite a month for all of us at Farmison & Co, from our Yorkshire farmers manning campsites, to our staff who packed dozens of packs of commemorative sausages, to our sheep that were painted yellow. We're talking of course about the...

It's almost here: The whistle of the wind as cyclists zip down the Buttertubs, the roar of the crowd at the Harrogate finish line, the pain of Kidstones Pass. Stage One of the Tour de France is passing us right on our doorstep, bringing...

If you're watching the tour on telly, (hopefully munching on our Grand Depart sausages!) keep your eyes peeled for the local landmarks below, and our farms. Many of our herds and flocks are reared along the Tour route, so you'll be able to see the...

To celebrate our Royal Visit, and the granting of Protected Designation of Origin to the Herdwick Breed, we're giving away a selection of cuts fresh from the Lakeland Fells, bought from the first auction of certified Herdwick meat. There's...

With the lambing season beginning to draw to an end, it's been a marvelous month for sheep at Farmison & Co with our Herdwick lamb being royally recognized! Having recently gained Protected Designation of Origin, the Herdwick lamb can now...

Our Black Bacon Steaks are legendary. To get the distinctive taste our pork loins are cured for over a month. Firstly they're treated with sea salt and dark brown sugar, a little Yorkshire ale, plus a secret blend of spices.

There's been some terrific news this morning about one of our favourite breeds here at Farmison & Co, the lovely Herdwick, has been paid a visit by his HRH Prince Charles. The Prince of Wales is in our neck of the woods visiting the state...

At Farmison & Co we often get asked why eat rare (and native) breeds, if they're so rare. It might sound a little strange, but it is precisely because they're so rare we should eat their meat. That's because if there is shown to be a...

Decent chicken can be an difficult to find at times despite the fact we as a nation are eating so much of it these days, 25kg each on average. In contrast, in 1950 British people only ate on average a kilo a year of chicken. You can be sure...

One of our favourite breeds we sell here at Farmison & Co has got to be the Dexter. Firstly it tastes absolutely fantastic, often with buttery and nutty notes, and boasting the kind of marbling in its small neat cuts which makes rare and native...