Moss Valley Fine Meats

Appears in
For the Love of the Land: A cook book to celebrate British farmers and their food
For the Love of the Land

By Jenny Jefferies

Published 2020

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By Stephen and Karen Thompson

“As a farmer, you tend to work for the next generation, so we won’t see the return on some of what we do, but it’s about trying to leave things better than they were.”

We produce pork, bacon, ham and sausages in our own butchery from pigs bred and reared on our farm in the beautiful Moss Valley close to the Sheffield-Derbyshire border. The family has lived and farmed here for a hundred years; I’m the fourth generation. We’ve had pigs on the farm for the last 60 years and been breeding for the last 40 while slowly but surely building our unit up to its current size and then refurbishing everything.