Porcus

19/07/2026

16/07/2026

🥕 MEET THE MAKERS 🥕

Meet SJ and Nat from Porcus - a Pennines-based producer dedicated to local provenance and ethical farming. Their rare-breed pigs are slow-grown, free-range and reared on pasture near Todmorden, with high welfare standards.

This month, you can catch Porcus on the telly! BBC Two are showing The Farmers Country Showdown on Thursday 23rd July at 2.45pm, where Nat and SJ made an appearance👏

You'll also get the chance to see this real, regenerative farm in action during the Calderdale Festival of Food - keep an eye on the webpage for details! 👀

16/07/2026

WE ARE BACK ON THE TELLY! - THE FARMERS COUNTRY SHOWDOWN - BBC 2 - THURSDAY 23RD JULY - 2.45 PM.

Let us take you back to The Lancashire Game and Country Fair in 2021 (1st aired in Jan 2022) when Team Porcus filmed with Sydney Street Productions and the amazing Jess Reid - to create a glimpse of life on the farm and the hard graft and hellish determination it takes to bring your products to the public!
It was brilliant fun to make, lots of new customers found and we got to show our small farm to the nation - win, win!

We hope you enjoy the re-run.🐖🐖
Lancashire Game and Country Festival
Visit Todmorden Visit Hebden Bridge
Visit Calderdale

01/07/2026

Wow! How the time has flown by - its HEPTFEST again this Saturday!

Porcus will be joining the fun and activities and joining other local producers to keep you fed and watered throughout the day.
Come and say a big ‚hello‘ and here’s to a fantastic day be you running, singing , drinking, dancing or eating your fill …… or maybe you‘ll be doing it all!
See you there?

16/05/2026

And some more……….

16/05/2026

Some of the line up for tomorrow…………

16/05/2026

It’s tomorrow *** SUNDAY 17th MAY ***! New times are 9.30am - 12.30pm - so please come down and support some of the finest local Artisan Producers in our valley.
There are also some new producers joining this market this week - so even more goodness to fill your bags with!
REAL FOOD, REAL PEOPLE, REALLY LOCAL.
See you there?

12/05/2026

This an essential read! Educate yourself and move forward making right choices in your life . It is up to you to change the system for better. Do the right thing. Contribute to better future and your own health.

In 1846, the year the protectionist Corn Laws were repealed, around 50% of UK household income was spent on food and about 70% of the price of a loaf would have gone to a local farmer for the wheat. This was the golden age of British farming, when Constable immortalised his hay wain, and landowners commissioned paintings of their prize bulls. Today, about 10% of household income is spent on food and less than 10% of the price of a loaf of bread will go to the farmer, who could be on the other side of the world.

In the UK, agriculture generates just 0.6% of GDP but is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, and responsible for over 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Free, globalised trade and unbridled capitalism gave us the cheap food that fed the landless, urban poor who enabled our Industrial Revolution, and, in time, our reliable cars and smartphones, but at a cost we are only belatedly understanding. At agricultural college in the 1980s, I was taught that glyphosate was a farmer’s best friend – a cheap, devastatingly effective herbicide that had zero mammalian toxicity, broke down immediately on contact with the soil, and posed no risk to the environment – all since proven to be untrue. In 2015, it was classed as “probably carcinogenic” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Since 1990, UK glyphosate usage has risen 1,000% – partly because of its egregious use as a pre-harvest desiccant in non-organic farming, where it is sprayed on cereal crops just days before harvest. It’s such a persistent chemical that 28% of bread samples tested by Pesticide Action Network (PAN UK) were found to contain it. It’s in our breakfasts, baked goods, and beer, and what’s concerning is that 70% of the people we surveyed were unaware that traces of weedkillers like glyphosate can remain in food. This isn’t about blaming farmers. Many are working within a system where prices have been driven down to a level where glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) feel like the only commercially viable option. In this case, the reduction in food prices is infinitesimally small, but the risks, substantial.

Pre-harvest desiccation was banned by the EU in 2023; Riverford, the Soil Association, PAN UK & many others, are campaigning for the UK to do the same.

05/05/2026

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