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‘ I had and still have no qualifications in butchering, so we employed butchers with a lifetime’ s experience as well as local farmers’ wives and daughters. We had a multi species abattoir nearby at Roos at the time. I don’ t think we appreciated it enough until we lost it. We also soon found out that by opening a butcher’ s shop we needed more than pork. Today we buy lamb, beef, poultry and game that have come from local farmers and we use Traves at Escrick. John Penny at Rawdon, and Soanes at Middleton on the Wolds for poultry as our main abattoirs.’

‘ We attend Beverley’ s Saturday Market every week. We’ ve been there 17 years and get a good trade, plus the monthly Humber Bridge Farmers Market, the Beverley Food Festival and Christmas Festival. I receive so many compliments from customers about the quality of our meat, which is wonderful because you don’ t generally get that kind of thing

back from the business end of the trade with abattoirs or buyers. I pass back the compliments to include those giving them in a team effort because while we can produce quality it is the cooking and the chef that can make all the difference.’

Peter and his wife Caroline have three daughters: Rebecca, Georgina and Angela. All three are involved with the family business in some way. Georgina is also a sergeant with the police force in Bridlington. Angela works closely alongside Peter, has taken on roles within the NFU and is embarking on a Nuffield scholarship.

‘ I’ d studied at Bishop Burton College, was on a Marks & Spencer management programme and had worked for local companies JSR and Blue Keld before coming to work with dad. I was heavily involved with Young Farmers. I started with Patrington YFC and moved to Brandesburton YFC when I lived in Beverley. I came back to work alongside dad in 2009 and have so

much respect for what he has built up from nothing.’

Angela attended a Worshipful Company of Farmers fortnight’ s residential course in rural leadership in Cornwall in 2014 sharing with other like-minded people from farming and meeting with leaders of industry. She is currently branch chairman of Hedon NFU and last year saw her elected as York East County vice chairman.

‘ I was recently awarded a Nuffield scholarship and my subject matter will be how to grow the British pig industry. In 1976 we had over one million sows in the UK. We are now down to 400,000. Since we have been members of the EU our pig industry has been disappearing. Spain is the only country in the EU with a growing pig herd.

My aim is to bring about three key recommendations to bring about a revival in UK pig breeding.’

Peter sees his team of 14 on the farm at Poplar and one at the arable farm in Aldbrough, as well as those involved with East Riding Country Pork as the important people.

‘ We have a real family atmosphere here and we have three of the team who are all different generations of the same family. We also have two generations represented from four other families.’

And the new Kirkwood generation is on its way too. Daughter Rebecca has two children Beatrice and William who help their grandfather at the farmers market every month – and Georgina’ s son Harry( 6) is being primed for service.

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