The Farms

Many farms, one standard.

Butcher Ben works with a growing network of native-breed farms across the Yorkshire Dales and beyond. Below are some of the highlights: a handful of the exceptional farmers whose meat finds its way into our boxes. Meet them, walk their fields, and read why their meat tastes the way it does.

Marske, North Yorkshire

Telfit Farm

Ian Brown

Ben’s family farm: a 1,000-acre hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales, showing how regenerative farming can produce real, healthy food while restoring nature.

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Bedale, North Yorkshire

CB Farms

Megan Mulholland

Native breeds, farmed regeneratively and suited to life in the UK climate without expensive inputs.

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Westmorland, Cumbria

Sleastonhow Farm

Tim Nicholson

Tim’s cattle spend their whole lives outdoors, eating only grass and browsing on the trees.

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Bedale, North Yorkshire

Old Park House Farm

Thomas Tennant

A small farm finding ways to diversify, while keeping hold of traditional farming values.

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Lower Wensleydale

Glass House Farm

Kevin Birch

An environmentally focused farm in Lower Wensleydale, complete with a 9-hectare wetland project.

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