Peelham Farm

28/08/2026

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25/08/2026

We make salamis here on the farm.

Our journey with fermenting meat started in 2004. We took a massive leap into the ‘deep end’ and exhibited at the Salone del Gusto in Turin in 2006. This is when we really really started learning with wonderful Italian friends and salumieris in Slow Food 🇮🇹🐌

On the journey:
We’ve made close friends ❤️
We’ve learnt and shared this ancient skill ♻️
We’ve made mistakes 😣
We’ve won awards 🏆

And:
👌by-hand gently, patiently with fermenting bacteria naturally here (no starter cultures!)
👌years of skill and dedication
👌quality pork from freerange (24/7) high welfare pigs
👌hand-mixed to maintain the best texture
👌natural casings (in our experience) for the best fermentation and curing

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Small scale artisan production stocks shift fast!

Nature friendly farming and food along a short food chain.

22/08/2026

14/08/2026

Visit our stall for Organic Beef, Free-range High welfare Pork, gluten-free & free-from sausages & burgers, dry cured bacon and our salamis.

All from our on-farm butchery

10/08/2026

The last to leave from one of the broods nesting in our farm office stairwell.

The sky above our farm steading is alive with Swallows in dedicated, determined, noisy preparation, scooping millions of insects above our grass pastures and hedgerows - for their long flight southwards.

With deep gratitude, in love and hope - until next spring.

PS The panting in the background is one of our dogs waiting for his supper!

07/08/2026

Along a short food chain from our on-farm butchery find us at these markets for your weeks shopping of organic and free-range beef and pork; bacon, salamis, sausages & burgers (all gluten-free), minced, diced and joints!

And if you can’t get to any of them order online (link in our bio ⬆️), by midnight on Sunday for delivery next week.

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29/07/2026

We often wonder if we’re doing it right or if we could do better.🤔

Farming with Nature for Food (for us and for nature!).

Then you get the wee nomination (the signs on the fence).

Then you go to the awards ceremony with the family and wait in anticipation.

🏆🏆🏆🏆 And then you’re called up and the awards (4 of them), are taken gently out of their box and presented.

Just pure delight that lasts for days and days 🥰

Knowing too that how and what we farm is delivering.

Barn Owls are some of the best indicators of healthy functioning farmland ecosystems which deliver the food, shelter and nesting habitats they need. And these four healthy ‘Owlets’ are the most precious evidence.

We farm our cattle for beef with nature 🦉🦋🥩
On grass only all-year-round 🌾
Our soils free of agri-chemicals ⛓️‍💥
Our land bio-diverse and connected with hedges & woods 🌳

24/07/2026

Organic Beef, Free-range high-welfare Pork;
Gluten-free & Free-from Sausages and Burgers

Our Salamis for starters and our Bacon for breakfast (if it turns into an ‘all nighter’!)

We make them all here with our small team of skilled craft butchers and salami makers (charcutiers in France or salumieris in Italy!).

Buy them directly from us at the weekly markets we attend or online for direct delivery.

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Farming with nature along a short food-chain.

19/07/2026

Out of season to be that territorial surely! Wrens definitely like to tell who’s boss …

Not arguing - just happy with the encounter.

Nature is companionship

12/07/2026

Early start this morning loading the van with chilled meat from our on farm butchery to go to the market.

Then a walk across the fields to see the farm at the best time of day, intuitively (like many farmland companions), following its connected network of hedgerows and woodlands. Typically busiest at the junctions between habitats (like many street corners!).

The number of different birds ‘picked up’ from their songs, in a matter of minutes, weren’t in themselves unusual. It’s their combination that tells us the farm is ‘alive’ as an expression of biodiversity and habitat working together holistically. It’s ‘alive’ and functioning for wildlife and for food production.

The link is also continued and especially meaningful with our customers from our ‘living ecosystem’ of a farm, through the meat we supply them..

We all of us, including wildlife, want the same thing; a local connected source of nutritious food (and shelter), supplied along a robust network of short food chains.

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We’re nature based farmers producing regeneratively for the markets (and online), along a short food chain.