4.05.2012

Fresh Organic Meat from Devon

By Anna Bury


After establishing a substantial following for their Monthly Meat Box Scheme, Devon based Eversfield Organic have put together a selection of premium quality set boxes, ideal for a sizzling barbecue season.

Eversfield Organic rear and butcher their own grass-fed traditional breed cattle on an 850 acre organic farm nestling deep in the heart of the Devon countryside on the edge of Dartmoor. The Bury family who founded Eversfield Organic held a lifelong ambition to own a small estate in the heart of the country. The Devon countryside is ideal for rearing organic livestock and producing the finest organic meat to include organic beef, organic lamb, organic pork and organic chicken.

The Eversfield Organic Meat boxes are available to order for free delivery direct to your home or office. The boxes are perfect for the whole family and may be ordered and delivered within the same week.

Anna Bury added: "At Eversfield Organic we offer a selection of high welfare premium Devon meat all year round. From farm to fork, we deliver fresh to your front door weekly, direct from our farm in the heart of Devon.

"We offer guaranteed provenance and ensure that all meat has been well hung and traditionally hand-butchered."

In addition to ordering individual cuts, their easy-to-use website www.eversfieldorganic.co.uk allows customers to order their own Monthly Meat Box from just £35.00 (free delivery), delivered straight to your door. You can choose your delivery to be every 2 or 4 weeks, there is no contract.

Eversfield Organic believe in sustainable farming and go a long way to minimise their impact on the environment to safeguard the land for generations to come.

Organic farming works best when original, native breeds of livestock are kept. The Eversfield Organic team and their farm manager chose the best livestock breeds which, when combined with traditional organic farming methods, produce the very best premium quality meat.

All the Organic Beef, Pork, Lamb, Wild Game and Pheasant is raised on the Eversfield Estate in Devon. The Poultry is carefully selected from a nearby farm. All the meat is cut to order ensuring it is always fresh.



Eversfield Organic Beef, is dark and deeply marbled with supreme flavour. Eversfield has a unique herd of Heritage Aberdeen Angus. These are wonderfully stocky, hardy cows that thrive on the species rich rough grazing of the Culm grasslands. We breed all our cattle on the farm. As the only estate in the world with the near extinct Prestige bloodline of traditional native Aberdeen Angus, we have an active breeding programme to make sure that this important line is saved for posterity.

Eversfield Organic Lamb is born and reared on our farm from a flock of mixed sheep comprising Romney Marsh (the same breed used for New Zealand lamb) and Suffolk cross Mules. This type of sheep is ideally suited to forage the lowland meadows and Culm grassland of the Estate and live outdoors year round only coming inside for lambing. Our Spring Lamb is available from July onwards having been allowed to suckle for an extended period before weaning gently onto grass at around 4 months.

Eversfield Organic Pork - In March 2007 the Bury family rescued a group of pigs from a local farmer who was giving up on pig farming. The pigs were destined for slaughter until we took the characteristic brave step of taking on pig farming at a time when many were leaving pig production due to the high costs of feed and relatively low returns.

The pig herd is now well and truly established with a breeding group of sows and one very happy albeit busy Boar! The pigs are a mixture of Large White and Medam sows with Large Black sows all renowned for producing quality pork. Our pigs live outdoors in large fenced of meadows, allowed to forage naturally and root about for grubs and plants. We supplement their diet with organic feed and they have large pig arc shelters to protect them from the sun, wind and rain. Our pigs are an important part of the rotation of our organic pastures. The farm now has a regular supply of superb award winning organic pork, bacon, sausages and joints, all carefully prepared by our butchers and packed on-site.

Merrifield Farm is run by Peter and Sue. It is situated in the Devon countryside outside of Crediton. They pride themselves on producing top quality chicken and ducks that give a true flavour of the product. Our skilled butchers can prepare chicken to order as whole roasting chickens, chicken drumsticks, and chicken breast or diced for casserole.

Wonnacott Farm is run by the Yells family tucked away in the Devon country side. They have their own breeding flock of Norfolk Black Turkeys which is a traditional slow-growing breed that is renowned for quality. The turkeys enjoy a home grown mix of organic cereals as well as foraging for themselves for acorns, stinging nettles, docks and blackberries. In December the Turkeys don?t have the stress of travelling anywhere else. They are killed and plucked entirely by hand on the farm.

Eversfield Organic non organic Wild Venison & Wild Game is produced during the game season. Our gamekeeper manages several small herds of wild Red deer and Roe deer to ensure conservation standards. We also run a successful commercial pheasant shoot on the Eversfield Estate. This means that our butchers are able to supply wild venison and pheasant subject to availability in the winter months. The wild deer make their home on our organic Eversfield Estate grazing in our meadows and woodland, but since we do not control their diet we cannot describe the meat as organic venison.

We hope that you will enjoy shopping with Eversfield Organic and that our meat boxes will become a regular delivery to your door that you are delighted to receive each month.




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