Top Butcher

This is Stuart, a very nice man who, along with his sidekick Kevin (the photo of Kev blurred) showed me how to chop up the Berkshire Pigs last week. He was very complimentary about the quality of the meat and would have been happy to sell it in his shop. It would be nice to set up as a part time pig farmer but work commitments and current finances forbid any further expansion of the smallholding.

We kept a tight reign on the balance sheet this time with the pigs and it cost around one hundred and twenty five pounds to produce the pig, this included piglet purchase, feed, transport, killing and butchering. We have sold some and one is now turning into bacon and parma ham so currently the balance sheet shows that the freezer full of meat, the eighty pounds of bacon and twenty five pounds on parma ham has cost us just over a hundred pounds. A few more sales and the project will have turned a profit. A first for Rock HQ.

Should you find yourself in Leominster, Herefordshire, be sure to call in on Stuart in Drapers Lane, he is your stereotypical butcher, a large jolly fellow and he sells the the most extraordinary Dexter Beef which is simply the best meat I have ever eaten!