South of England Rare Breeds Centre

Rare breed meat is a rare thing. It’s great to see it becoming more popular in butchers’ windows and on restaurant plates. With some old breeds almost lost through intensive farming programmes and only a handful of some breeds left it is time to keep on supporting the farming of these beautiful animals. But it’s all well and good asking for Old Spot Pork or Longhorn Beef but if you can’t relate to these animals now is your chance.
With summer in England here, or maybe not, it’s a great chance to visit some of the Rare Breed Centres dotted around the place. It was a smashing weekend recently and I was visiting Rye in Sussex for the weekend. Rye is a lovely place and whilst there I decided to visit the South of England Rare Breed Centre . Well what a great introduction to rare breeds this place is. They have a small selection of rare breed cattle including Longhorns and White Park along side Old Spot and Berkshire pigs and the famous Tamworth Two! They also have a pig race which is much fun. It’s a real chance to get up close to theses rare breeds and a smashing day out. So get yourself down to your local rare breed farm.
I’m currently in Glossop, Derbyshire, working at the amazing J W Mettricks Butchers as part of my Gary Baker Award. So, sorry for the lack of updates but lots of tales to follow.

Charlie the Butcher.