New Barn Farm, Essex

Traditionally reared Dexter beef and Gloucester Old Spot pork

We have traditionally reared Dexter beef and Gloucester Old Spot pork, plus free-range chicken and eggs direct from the farm or by local delivery.

About New Barn Farm:

Good Food Producer details:

We are a smallholding in the small old fashioned Essex village of West Hanningfield...

The Farm
Along with some chickens and ducks, we have a small herd of Dexter Cattle, four Herefords and Gloucester Old Spot Pigs which are reared in the traditional way.

Our Animals
We try to give our animals the best life they can have, using natural feed wherever possible and ensuring that any other feed is GM and anitbiotic free.  This diet is supplimented by other vegatebles and apples.

Our Produce
We like to think that as our animals are well cared for and treated individually, this is reflected in the quality of the produce.

The Dexters produce high quality beef, with good marbling and excellant flavour with the cuts and joints being on a small scale whereas the Herefords produce larger cuts but still with excellent flavour

The Gloucester Old Spot Pigs produce "old fashioned" pork with fantastic flavour and brilliant crackling.  The bacon and gammons are also full of flavour and our local butcher who does our smoking and curing uses the traditional method.

The chickens and ducks produce excellent tasting eggs and we also have freerange table birds which actually are full of flavour unlike some of the chickens that you can buy in the supermarkets.

Our hay, haylage and straw are either cut from our own fields or other fields in the local neighbourhood and are kept as weed free as possible as we not only use it to feed our own herds but also for our two horses.   

Food Miles
Our animals are sent to a small local abbatoir and are delivered from there direct to one of two local butchers that we use for our butchering and curing.  As well as cutting down on the food miles we are also supporting our local businesses.