We source our chicken from one farm in Leicestershire. The farm is Pasture for Life certified and rears truly free range, outdoor birds.
WESTON PARK FARMS
John Cherry
WESTON PARK FARMS
THE HOME OF GROUNDSWELL REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE CONFERENCE
MEET THE FARMER
John Cherry and his family have been farming at Weston Park for over 35 years. Rightly regarded as pioneers within the world of regenerative farming, the Cherrys have done as much as anyone to advance and promote its benefits to people,
animals and planet.
Combining arable land, permanent pasture and woodland, Weston Park is a true mixed farm. It produces wheat, barley, oats, beans, and linseed, plus species-rich cover crops whenever possible. Herbal grass leys are integrated into the rotation, which alongside their parkland pastures are rotationally grazed by their 120 strong suckler herd of Beef Shorthorn cattle, which we are delighted to feature in this box.
John is a legend, we visited him recently at Weston Park and you can see our Q&A with him in this exclusive video.
MEET THE ANIMALS
With lineage dating back over two centuries, the British Shorthorn is one of Britain’s most loved and successful native breeds.
A number of traits have made Beef Shorthorn as successful and desirable as it is, particularly in regenerative, pasture-based enterprises such as John’s. Shorthorn are inherently maternal, displaying exemplary fertility, ease of calving and docile temperaments, lending them perfectly to more natural, suckler-herd systems. They are also excellent foragers that excel on diverse pasture, symbiotically improving and positively impacting the environment they inhabit.
Renowned for their finishing ability, meaning excellent cover, and their propensity to developing intramuscular fat (marbling), Beef Shorthorn invariably deliver on the plate.
This is delicious beef that is of the land on which it was raised.
THE LAND
We've always been conscious that our soil is our most important asset, but it was only when we found other farmers who were regenerating their soil at the same time as making a decent living, that we realised that this is what we should be doing. We've been 100% no-till on the arable since 2010 and managing the grazing in a quasi-holistic way almost as long. We were so excited by the improvements we found in our soils that we started the Groundswell Show and Conference five years ago, to promote some of the regenerative ideas that are transforming farming across the world.
