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 Kingston Brook Farm offer farm fresh meats for delivery within Leicestershire. All meat products are sourced from our own animals, which can be seen on the farm.
Kingston Brook Farm has a strong environmental policy aimed at minimising the food miles involved in the chain from farm-to-table. Our aim is to promote traditional and rare breeds back into the food chain that have been humanely reared - i.e. free-range, in social groups and fed on pure foods as much as is possible - i.e. local vegetables etc. They are born on the farm and will not leave until time of slaughter which means that they will have suffered no stress associated with being transported re-homed etc.
We have traditional, older, native and rare breeds of animals such as Aberdeen Angus and Guernsey Cattle, Gloucester Old Spot pigs and Suffolk Lambs. These are slower growing. In some cases we are breeding back so they will be even slower-growing and smaller. We believe that these breeds are hardier and more resilient, which makes them more suited to outdoor life on the farm, eating a more natural diet, and in addition to which, which they convert more food energy into their meat.
We believe that slower growing animals are better-tasting and healthier. What the animals eat ..... you eat !
We decided to rear traditional breeds because of their superior flavour and eating quality over modern commercial breeds. Many of are customers have commented how the meat tastes like it used to years ago. Modern breeding programmes have concentrated on producing animals that grow bigger and faster on less food. In doing so, taste and healthiness have been left as secondary considerations. Our cattle are historic British breeds that have not been cross-bred. As a result they grow slower and are smaller and produce tender succulent meat
We currently have free-range pork and lamb available to order, with our succulent beef due to be available at the end of 2007.
Our stock comprises:
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| Aberdeen Angus | Guernsey | The name Aberdeen Angus is synonymous with quality and consistently set standards which others strive to emulate. The Beef is specially selected to meet demanding quality standards which ensures a remarkable eating experience to today's customer.
Quality beef has smooth, close grained texture which enables easy and economical carving, choose your beef with fine threads of creamy white fat interwoven throughout the lean, known as marbling. Marbling is a characteristic of Aberdeen Angus Beef and prevents beef from becoming hard and leathery and ensures that superb flavour or really first class beef. | A product of her Island home, the island of Guernsey situated in the English Channel off the coast of France.
Most Guernsey cattle are a beautiful golden colour, with variations from deep red to fawn. A dappled gold is prized by breeders in Guernsey island. Some of our cattle have this quality. All have some white, usually on lower legs, face, tail switch. They have a golden hue even under the white skin and have amber horns and hooves.
Much sought after in the top London restaurants, but is not widely produced commercially - we are offering this product locally | 
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| Gloucester Old Spot | Suffolk Lambs | The Gloucester Old Spot is a very popular breed, more consumers are looking for quality meat, as opposed to cheap, bland meat product. In these conditions, old breeds well-suited to living outdoors, such as the Gloucester Old Spot, have increasingly been chosen by farmers looking to add value to their products.
The Gloucestershire Old Spots has often been referred to as a "bacon" pig, due to the significant depth of body that provides a larger percentage of bacon per hundredweight of carcass. They often carry more fat that breeds that are more popular commercially. | The Suffolk evolved from the mating of Norfolk Horn ewes with Southdown rams in the Bury St Edmunds area, these sheep were known as Southdown Norfolk's, or locally, as "Black faces."
Originally renowned as a producer of mutton, the breed has developed over the years to match consumer demands. Suffolk’s are now found throughout the world's sheep producing countries. They are the flag-ship breed in the British Isles and recognised as the leading terminal sire on a variety of ewes to produce top quality prime lamb.
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All the meat is available on our "boxed meat" scheme to order.
Thank you for taking the time to visit our site today. I hope you have enjoyed your visit and that you will be back again or why not come and see us on the farm. If you have any questions please e-mail me or call me on 01509 881098 and I will be happy to answer them.
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