Wiltshire Village Meats Farm and Food Information

	Wiltshire Village Meats Welfare - - Quality				In association with Walter Rose and son Family Butchers
Links to other farm pages PIGS - West End Farm & Crooked Soley POULTRY - Woolley Park Farm	Welcome to our farm information page				Wiltshire Village Meats sells meat produced from our own herd of outdoor pigs and also other produce from a number of carefully selected local farmers who farm to similar high welfare standards and produce a quality product. Farmers are increasingly working together and we are proud to be to be able to do this in association with Walter Rose Butchers. We will profile as many of the different suppliers as possible beginning here with our own farm.
	Links to other pages HOME FARM SHOP CARDS WALTER ROSE ABOUT OUR FARMING FARM DIARY RECIPES QUESTIONS CONTACT US		I.A. Naughton & Co. Crooked Soley Pig Unit Wiltshire is a very beautiful county and one which has a long tradition of pig-keeping. We consider ourselves very fortunate to be able to farm in two different parts of Wiltshire. Our pigs begin their lives on the wooded hills between Marlborough and Hungerford at a place with the wonderful name of Crooked Soley. Here our sows live contented lives outdoors able to fully express their natural behaviour. The piglets are born and raised here until they are three months old. West End Farm, Bishops Cannings At three months old our pigs are strong little chaps and are ready to go into our purpose built straw-yards at our main farm on the edge of the Downs near Devizes. Whilst it is possible to keep pigs outdoors throughout their lives it can be quite damaging to the land. We believe keeping our pigs in warm roomy straw yards is the best way to produce the good quality meat which is neither too fat for modern tastes or too lean to spoil eating quality. Housing them on straw enables the pig to be able to forage and play in the straw yards but enables the stockmen to check them closely throughout the day. Much of the pork sold in this country, and certainly most imported pork comes from pigs kept in bare concrete yards. In addition to keeping pigs we grow combinable crops of wheat and barley and some oilseed rape. We have our own mill where we grind the grain and mix with bought in ingredients to make the food for the pigs. The straw from the fields is baled and used in the pig housing. The 'good stuff' - muck - from the pigs is spread back onto the land which improves soil condition and reduces the amount of manufactured fertiliser we need to buy. This is very much an integrated system and we are very conscious and careful of the environment we farm in. We also have a small herd of beef cattle who graze the ancient downland grasslands at the highest part of our farm, and the meadows in the village and by the Kennet and Avon Canal. Wiltshire is famed for its chalk grassland and although much was ploughed after the war when food was rationed, we are fortunate to have some original downland on our farm.
	For further information on anything on this site please contact Muriel Naughton Email: Naughton@Farming.co.uk