The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2015 - Issue 38 | Page 50

Cold Kirby Farm - Taste Traditions Rare breed meat proves a winner Chris Berry talks with Charles Ashbridge of Taste Tradition D LT ATS AL ST I Congratulations to Charles Ashbridge, his family and all members of staff on the opening of his new butchery facility. E SPECI UK Wide Coldstore Installation & Service Contractors ADITIO TR N ME ‘I’ve always been interested in the meat industry and had wondered how I could make a small farm profitable and viable’ butchery at Hutton Conyers near Ripon. “I’ve always been interested in the meat industry and had wondered how I could make a small farm profitable and viable enough for me to stay in agriculture,” says Charles. ‘When mum and I tried the Berkshire pork from our butcher all those years ago it tasted like nothing I’d ever had before. It was fantastic! So we went back for more. The third time we went it wasn’t readily available and that is when the thought came to mind of making sure it would always be available with both a consistency of supply and quality. D at the family farm of Mount Grace Farm in Cold Kirby not far from the top of Sutton Bank, to include a second farm at Abbott’s Close Farm, Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe and its own butchery premises on the Thirsk Industrial Estate. But by the time you read this, Taste Tradition will have moved to a new - and five times larger - home for the TA ST »»When Charles Ashbridge and his mum, Joyce tried some rare breed pork from their local butcher around a dozen years ago, little could they have imagined that they would now not just be farmers, but also butchers, processing 200 pigs each week, as well as cattle and sheep. ‘Taste Tradition’ has developed from its initial base SI N RA RE BR EE 01953 681061 Fax: [phone] Mob: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] Unit 5a Home Farm, Riddlesworth, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 2TE www.scottholland.co.uk Tel: 50 Feb/Mar 2015 www.farmers-mart.co.uk