The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2015 - Issue 38 | Page 42

Meadow Meats Proud to be associated with Richard Lee and the team at Meadow Meats and wish the luck in the future Tel: [phone] e: [email protected] Cote Green Farm, Finkle St, Wortley, Sheffield S35 7DH 42 Feb/Mar 2015 www.farmers-mart.co.uk LAUNCH OF MEADOW MEATS It was then that Richard took a bold step forward and Meadow Meats was launched to supply the Butchery, Hotel and catering trade. The timing was good because this was at the start of the rise in popularity of locally farm reared meat and the eventual emergence of farm shops many of which they supply now. Richard and Howard were helped and advised by a family friend who was also an experienced butcher. They both undertook butchery courses specialising in lamb, though Richard is also fully qualified for beef as well. Richard told me: “It all seemed pretty foreign at the start but once you’ve got it, it is fine”. They are now doing upwards of 40 lambs a week supplying farm shops, restaurants and caterers with all cuts including the now increasingly popular ‘Lamb